RE: As a christian, how did you handle the problems with the Tower of Babel?
November 27, 2012 at 10:23 pm
(November 27, 2012 at 5:03 pm)Drich Wrote:So...god didn't tell anyone nor want it to be preserved because he doesn't exist. Case closed!(November 26, 2012 at 9:16 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Nope..Ah, Yes! Because you said:
Quote:If anything, God told a bronze age goat herder"IF" Two little letters that qualify this whole premise. "If God Told anyone," then God wanted it to be known. If God wanted it known, He would have perserved what had been said. (Remember He is God) This has been shown to be true time and time again when we 'find' older examples of the bible than what we currently have, and compare what was written to what we have. (Dead sea Scrolls)
Drich Wrote:What are you talking about? @ 10,000 ft the air becomes to thin to breath, (one has about 2 mins before they black out,) so construction would have to had stopped way short of 10,000 ft. I was being very generous @ 10,000 ft. It is far more likly they could not have built a structure more than 1000 ft high which is 2x's the size of any masionary building in the world. Why? the tensile strength of (any known) the mud baked bricks would not support a structure any taller than that.(bolding added)
Now because Heaven is not located at 10,000 God had nothing to worry about. Therefore If Man could not literally build a tower to Heaven then we must yield to what was written in the text. In that God divided the people of Bable to slow their collective progress.
(Not because you think the bible says: God/Heaven was at 10,000 ft or lower)
Well, that certainly wouldn't be the first thing that wasn't literally possible in the bible. Maybe the guys who wrote it did claim that heaven was at 10,000 feet, and just assumed that no one could ever get that high, so it couldn't be falsified?
Quote:God had israel destroy people because the con-men prophets had no idea how to increase vegetable crops or maintain sustainable animal husbandry. They had to invade because they were too stupid and could only acquire sustenance for growth by animalistic killing of neighboring clans.Which does what? Supports His people and perserves the Linage of Christ...[/quote]
Option one: help your people improve farming and herding habits
Option two: have you people kill everybody else and take their stuff
Both are equally effective to an omnipotent god, so...the genocide was unnecessary. And about the lineage of christ: why did it matter his lineage, couldn't god easily put Jesus into anyone? (Or did he make some promise to put him in a specific family?)
