Why did God divide the people of Babel?

[Minimalist]

impossibly tall tower bad.

spaceship, whatevs.

uhnga.

God is a putz.

[The Magic Pudding]

Funny how god acted to prevent the tower of babel reaching to heaven yet did nothing when Humanity launched manned craft into space

Are you sure?

http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/..._s=PM:TECH

CNN NASA lost a 125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agencys team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.

[Godscreated]

Another point about the Babel effect:

If the god of israel did indeed change all the languages at the exact same time in the exact same place then there shouldn't be words missing out of a race's language. For instance there are many things/concepts that native americans, asians, native australians, etc, etc, do not have words for that the English and French and others do. This would not be the case. If god changed your language without changing your free will and the way your entire mind worked - every language would have still had words for all things considered ... and they do not.

I asked my father to explain this phenomenon once and of course, being a devout fundamentalist, he could not.

I believe his answer was: "I don't pretend to know the master plan of the one almighty god."

**rolling eyes just remembering that conversation**

Your talking about languages that came much later, how do you know that these words were not added to these languages even after they were formed.

[Cinjin]

Your talking about languages that came much later, how do you know that these words were not added to these languages even after they were formed.

I was merely using examples, but it doesn't matter because all languages today are rooted in the languages of thousands of years ago, so you really don't have much of a point. It's not like the Asian or English language suddenly popped out of nowhere 2800 years ago.

My point holds up ... the idea that there was once one world wide language is ludicrous. If god had changed only the language of those people - all of their words would be represented, and as we all know, that is not the case.



Tell me something Godsheep ... the quote that's in your signature ... it says the author of said quote is "God".
Is that not quite arrogant of you to know and print the thoughts of "God" ????? Do you think your god would appreciate that or find that rather boastful???

[Godscreated]

Your talking about languages that came much later, how do you know that these words were not added to these languages even after they were formed.

I was merely using examples, but it doesn't matter because all languages today are rooted in the languages of thousands of years ago, so you really don't have much of a point. It's not like the Asian or English language suddenly popped out of nowhere 2800 years ago.

My point holds up ... the idea that there was once one world wide language is ludicrous. If god had changed only the language of those people - all of their words would be represented, and as we all know, that is not the case.



Tell me something Godsheep ... the quote that's in your signature ... it says the author of said quote is "God".
Is that not quite arrogant of you to know and print the thoughts of "God" ????? Do you think your god would appreciate that or find that rather boastful???

The words could have been added later, I see no reason why they could not have been. Please give an example of words that exist in english that doesn't in native american.
It's not boastful nor arrogant, the statement about hell is a correct one and Nietzsche is dead and if you are as knowledgeable about scripture as you say then you will find examples in the Bible. I did not presume to give a prophecy, on the other hand Nietzsche did when he said christianity would be gone in 100 years, we are still here and going strong.

[Minimalist]

we are still here and going strong.

Not so strong in Europe, though. They are somewhat smarter than us Americans....not weighed down by boatloads of brain-dead fundies.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I cannot dither out any good moral reason for Babel.

The traditional answer is the sin of pride. (hubris) The whole thing is pretty Greek. In Genesis,at least, YHWH has some the more unpleasant traits of many of the Greek gods.

The tower of Babel was meant to LITERALLY reach heaven,making Nimrod (I think) as powerful as God.


I've always found the lessons as subtle as a kick in the nuts: (1) don' mess with YHWH, he tends to overearct.(2) In confounding mens' speech YHWH punished them for their pride and accounted for the many different languages on earth.. ( a spiffy example of 'god of the gasps')

[fr0d0]

@ the OP

People will always try to exist by subversive means rather than do what is right. Justice is unwelcome.

[leftyatbest]

Honestly It was pointless. God should have known that we would eventually learn the other languages and everyone would one day be able to speak to each other again (we have google translate in our phones now, I speak every language), not only that but look at space exploration, its pretty obvious man couldn't build a tower into heaven, we've traveled WAY further than any tower could possible go and guess what.... still no heaven. What more proof do you need, know what I'm sayin?

[ElDinero]

Kind of makes God look like a bit of a fucking idiot really, doesn't it G-C? Since he would presumably have been aware of the fact that after a while, the tower would have reached the Earth's atmosphere and they wouldn't have been able to go any further. Of course, this would be long after they experienced freezing conditions far, far lower down, so they'd never find that out in the first place. God would surely know there was nothing to worry about, no? It's almost like the people who wrote it didn't know about any of that stuff, isn't it?