RE: As a christian, how did you handle the problems with the Tower of Babel?
November 25, 2012 at 3:54 pm
(November 25, 2012 at 2:50 pm)Brakeman Wrote: When you guys were christian, how did you handle the incongruities of the Tower of Babel story?The bible never says how high the tower Got.
You know..
Heaven is in the sky and that bronze age men built a tower super high.
Quote:God was afraid that mankind might sneak into heaven.This was not the reason God confused the languages of man. It was man's goal to build a tower into heaven. God's actions was not to prevent this tower, but the collberation of all men, and what He saw man accomplishing because of this 'colaberation.' Gen 11:6 And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
God's efforts had nothing to do with Him worrying about man 'seeking into heaven."
Quote:Where the h*ll is the Tower?The remains are where the men of bable left it.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
Quote:How high could it have really been?The bible does not say.
Quote: If it was only 3 or 4 stories high, why would god have cared when he supposedly knew that in about four thousand more years mankind would make it beyond the moon.Because God knew that given the drive and purpose of man we would have developed faster than we should have. He felt the need to slow us down a little.
