(July 17, 2013 at 6:26 pm)MikeTheInfidel Wrote: The story is incoherent on several levels. The biggest one is that it says that all of mankind was speaking the same language. This is Genesis 11. One chapter back, in Genesis 10, it talks about the descendants of Noah's sons settling into their own territories, each with their own language.
Did you actually read that, or did you find this notion on one of your atheist sites.
Chapter 10 is giving a genealogy of Noah's family, through over a couple hundred years. Noah was still alive at the end of the given genealogy, Noah, his sons, grandsons, all lived long enough to be at Bable. God did not punish the people for building a tower, He knew they could not accomplish that task. What He did was give them different languages to scatter them as He first commanded them to do. He did not want man to accomplish the evil they had before the flood, that's what God meant by man could accomplish anything. Why would an omnipotent God worry about people being able to accomplish great things, He could have foiled anything they would do against Him, He's omnipotent.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
