RE: Why did God divide the people of Babel?
October 16, 2011 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Welsh cake.)
Guys, guys, no where in the Bible did it specifically say this utopia actually wanted to build a tower into "Heaven" or "God's Domain" or whatever.
That's something the idiot Bible-thumpers take literally in order to make God here look like the 'good guy' and mankind's construction of the tower a hubristic act of defiance against their creator. It is figuratively speaking, like for example "Let's make a car with such beauty it'll be blinding" is not an actual proposal to create a vehicle that blinds onlookers.
God divided Babel because he was deeply afraid of man. Humans working together for the better good could live as 'gods on the Earth' and nothing would be impossible for them.
The obvious purpose of the Babel story is irony. Mankind was one but feared being scattered across the Earth by the tyrant God overlord so they build Babel to prevent this. The construction of the city and tower only served to attract God's attention, he realised the potential of a united human race, and thus scattered them across the Earth.
Quote:Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
That's something the idiot Bible-thumpers take literally in order to make God here look like the 'good guy' and mankind's construction of the tower a hubristic act of defiance against their creator. It is figuratively speaking, like for example "Let's make a car with such beauty it'll be blinding" is not an actual proposal to create a vehicle that blinds onlookers.
God divided Babel because he was deeply afraid of man. Humans working together for the better good could live as 'gods on the Earth' and nothing would be impossible for them.
Quote:Genesis 11:6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
The obvious purpose of the Babel story is irony. Mankind was one but feared being scattered across the Earth by the tyrant God overlord so they build Babel to prevent this. The construction of the city and tower only served to attract God's attention, he realised the potential of a united human race, and thus scattered them across the Earth.
