(January 13, 2014 at 12:19 pm)Drich Wrote: God confused their language because for man to be unified at that time in our history/development would set us on a course that was no consistant with His plan of salvation.
“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.
Notice the bold part. Also notice God did not say He confused their language to keep them from breaching the gates of Heaven, but rather allow man the power to choose his own destiny at that point in our development.
As usual, Drich mishandles language and logic. How is being able to effect one's proposals incompatible with free will, the power to choose one's own destiny?
As a couple of people have noted, the point of the story (copied from the Babylonian) is to explain for the primitive mind why there are many different languages.
Go back a few chapters to find out why many people have a phobia about snakes and why childbirth is painful.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
