(June 27, 2014 at 6:46 pm)Heywood Wrote: I haven't read the story, but I have heard it told. My understanding is some king built a tower to challenge God. God put the king and his people back in their place.
A bible thumper's explanations could be that planes, spaceships, modern towers, etc are not designed to challenge God(except for maybe the Titanic) which is why God leaves them alone.
Yes I heard it told in Sunday school and that's the way it was told. But that's not quite the way it reads. "Come let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered across the face of the whole earth."
And god responded: "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan will be impossible to them."
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
