Punished for Babel?

[YahwehIsTheWay]

The people were trying to get to heaven, not God. Which is why God thwarted their plan. They were trying to achieve perfection apart from the source.
They used man made materials, brick and tar, rather than stone and mortar, symbolising their own efforts over natural law.

I swear I don't understand why sissy Christians like you can't seem to read the words that are right there on the page!

Genesis 11:6-7 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.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

The text couldn't possibly be more clear! The people were going to succeed in building a tower that would reach Heaven. "Nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do". Yahweh was clearly frightened or at least worried about the potential for their success. His actions to confound their language was the only way to stop them.

Heaven is a dome in the sky! Wake up already! Science has lied to you!

The word for "Heaven" and "sky" are one and the same in the ancient Hebrew language. So Genesis 1:8 declares that Yahweh called the dome (firmament) "the sky" which was also what separated Heaven from earth. Yahweh opens a window in the dome when it rains (Gen 7:11).

Science has lied to us saying the earth is round and orbits the sun through a vacuum! Scripture clearly says the earth is flat and supported by pillars. The sky is a dome that stretches over it. The sun revolves around the earth, having been fixed in the dome.

The only alternative can be to think the Bible is wrong. You can't reconcile the two!

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If you actually read the story it was not about reaching God.

What Bible did you read?

Gen 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;