The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-9

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1.Was there truly a time when the whole world was speaking a language?
2. Can Crude Building with mortar, tar and brick ever reach heaven?
3. The speech ascribed to God was inappropriate. How can God come down and confuse their language when what they were trying to do was even impossible?

It seems this story never happened in reality or probably figurative!

AntiChristian:

1.Was there truly a time when the whole world was speaking a language?

YES! Adam and Eve were the first humans so all their descendants spoke one language!

AntiChristian:

2. Can Crude Building with mortar, tar and brick ever reach heaven?
3. The speech ascribed to God was inappropriate. How can God come down and confuse their language when what they were trying to do was even impossible?

The idea wasn't to build a house and reach the heavens but to get prepared against another time perhaps God may get annoyed again with their attitude and decide to wipe them out as he did to Noah's contemporaries.

The major reason why God confused their language was to make them SCATTER throughout the earth because that's his purpose from the beginning humans are to fill the whole earth not stay in one geographical location! Genesis 1:26-28

This is one story I still do not understand the message behind it...

sonmvayina:

This is one story I still do not understand the message behind it...

Simple God wants humans to scatter all over the surface of the earth but they were determined to build a huge skyscraper so that when God gets angry again they can climb as high as possible and the level of the water won't reach them to kill them.
So God confused their language and they left that place and scattered! Genesis 11:1-9

AntiChristian:
The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-9

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1.Was there truly a time when the whole world was speaking a language?
2. Can Crude Building with mortar, tar and brick ever reach heaven?
3. The speech ascribed to God was inappropriate. How can God come down and confuse their language when what they were trying to do was even impossible?

It seems this story never happened in reality or probably figurative!

The ancients were people who were skilled in building very tall buildings so it wasn't impossible. Just Google the Aztec pyramids you will be surprised on how tall they were.

Lawag3:


The ancients were people who were skilled in building very tall buildings so it wasn't impossible. Just Google the Aztec pyramids you will be surprised on how tall they were.

Tall to reach the sky? Like how tall in meters?

And which of the questions are you answering?

AntiChristian:


Tall to reach the sky? Like how tall in meters?

And which of the questions are you answering?

Some could reach the 500ft the tallest standing ancient structure is the great pyramid of Giza about 487ft and to biblical period and people this is very tall

MaxInDHouse:


Simple God wants humans to scatter all over the surface of the earth but they were determined to build a huge skyscraper so that when God gets angry again they can climb as high as possible and the level of the water won't reach them to kill them.
So God confused their language and they left that place and scattered! Genesis 11:1-9

The letter killeth..

You are trying to interpret the story..


I want the spiritual message in the story...

Thank you ..

sonmvayina:

The letter killeth..
You are trying to interpret the story..
I want the spiritual message in the story...
Thank you ..

Spiritual controls the physical!
Go and find out the spiritual meaning and come back to tell me the group PRACTICING what you think the book is saying.

MaxInDHouse:


Spiritual controls the physical!
Go and find out the spiritual meaning and come back to tell me the group PRACTICING what you think the book is saying.

Cultist...

I don't want to join your group..

It is demonic...

sonmvayina:

Cultist...
I don't want to join your group..
It is demonic...

That's what many people often say but what really baffles me is how UNITED IN LOVE, JOY and PEACE the so called Cultists are {Isaiah 2:2-4} while those criticizing them are divided {Luke 11:23} killing themselves due to politics and racism! Revelations 6:3-4

MaxInDHouse:


That's what many people often say but what really baffles me is how UNITED IN LOVE, JOY and PEACE the so called Cultists are {Isaiah 2:2-4} while those criticizing them are divided {Luke 11:23} killing themselves due to politics and racism! Revelations 6:3-4

But is still does not make your cult better...

They are both same 6 and half a dozen...

Lawag3:


Some could reach the 500ft the tallest standing ancient structure is the great pyramid of Giza about 487ft and to biblical period and people this is very tall

So i guess the tower of Babel was around some thousands of years ago! How far could they have reached with mortar, tar and brick?

sonmvayina:

But is still does not make your cult better...
They are both same 6 and half a dozen...

Isaiah 2:2-4 has vindicated God's organization you can continue deceiving yourself!

MaxInDHouse:


Isaiah 2:2-4 has vindicated God's organization you can continue deceiving yourself!

Jehovah's witnesses is not what Isaiah was talking about...

Read it in context...

After reading in context wait for whatever you think is the right application as for millions across the globe we have found the meaning and applying it PRACTICALLY as one big and happy family of peace loving worshipers! Isaiah 2:2-4; Micah 4:1-3

sonmvayina:

Jehovah's witnesses is not what Isaiah was talking about... Read it in context...

AntiChristian:


So i guess the tower of Babel was around some thousands of years ago! How far could they have reached with mortar, tar and brick?

It's not know but knowing that lack of technology doesn't stop the ancients from building tall structure it's very possible the building must have be very high let's say it was around 400ft before they had to stop

Lawag3:


It's not know but knowing that lack of technology doesn't stop the ancients from building tall structure it's very possible the building must have be very high let's say it was around 400ft before they had to stop

So God was disturbed by people building when He can command anything and it would happen?

AntiChristian:


So God was disturbed by people building when He can command anything and it would happen?

God has given men freewill. He wouldn't remote-control man. Man can choose whatever he wills to do, but God will obstruct man if man's doing is contrary to God's general plan for the world.

Since God can command anything and make it happen as you said. Why can't your Allah command all the human race to become Muslims and see it happen?

AntiChristian:
The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-9

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1.Was there truly a time when the whole world was speaking a language?
2. Can Crude Building with mortar, tar and brick ever reach heaven?
3. The speech ascribed to God was inappropriate. How can God come down and confuse their language when what they were trying to do was even impossible?

It seems this story never happened in reality or probably figurative!

The story was obviously made up by men to explain things.

It is a Babylonian myth copied by the Jewish scribes.

Build a house to Heaven? Seriously? Figuratively may be but in actual meaning of the statement? Na lamba.

The tower of babel is further proof of Extraterrestrial involvement in the development of mankind not "God". The scripture says they came down and saw, is God a physical being that he will "stand-up" and "come down" from the sky to see? Same thing with the destruction of sodom, "they" also came down before heading to destroy sodom. This is what I can infer from the story of babel. The humans were tired of being controlled by ET. They probably found a way to get up there(space) with probably a rocket(remember if you put prehistoric moses in a NASA space launch center, he will refer to the rocket as a tower). Its also possible that they brought war to the people which made them run(scatter). Think about it, deaf & dumb people still communicate with normal people using sign languages. If you really do your research from the torah you will discover that the old testament God was a physical presence that the israelites felt.

FxMasterz:


God has given men freewill. He wouldn't remote-control man. Man can choose whatever he wills to do, but God will obstruct man if man's doing is contrary to God's general plan for the world.

This your postulation no gel at all. It looks like a contradiction. Man has freewill yet he can be blocked by God!

Since God can command anything and make it happen as you said. Why can't your Allah command all the human race to become Muslims and see it happen?

God created Hell for a Purpose! So it will be filled. Same as Paradise! Not everyone will be Muslims. Not everyone will make Paradise!

AntiChristian:
This your postulation no gel at all. It looks like a contradiction. Man has freewill yet he can be blocked by God!

God created Hell for a Purpose! So it will be filled. Same as Paradise! Not everyone will be Muslims. Not everyone will make Paradise!

Does your son not have freewill to act according to his choice in your house? Don't you punish him if he acts contrariwise? It you see him using his freewill to attempt jumping into a well or destroying your cherished property, won't you block him in spite of his freewill? Or do you actually remote-control your son?

If hell was created for a purpose, why did your God command infidels to be killed by you if he has power to cast people to hell?

And if you think God cannot command people to follow Him because He created hell and heaven for a purpose, then apply your answer to your own question.

AntiChristian:
The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-9

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1.Was there truly a time when the whole world was speaking a language?
2. Can Crude Building with mortar, tar and brick ever reach heaven?
3. The speech ascribed to God was inappropriate. How can God come down and confuse their language when what they were trying to do was even impossible?

It seems this story never happened in reality or probably figurative!

You're correct. It never happened. There was never time the same language was spoken everywhere in the world.

But there's an underlying meaning to that fictional story. The ancients have their own way of teaching certain truths about life once they discovered them.

AntiChristian:


So God was disturbed by people building when He can command anything and it would happen?

What are you saying he confused them so they could spread around the world. The bible doesn't say anything about God being disturbed.

AntiChristian:
The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-9

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1.Was there truly a time when the whole world was speaking a language?
2. Can Crude Building with mortar, tar and brick ever reach heaven?
3. The speech ascribed to God was inappropriate. How can God come down and confuse their language when what they were trying to do was even impossible?

It seems this story never happened in reality or probably figurative!

Good thinking. What do you suppose the language spoken in the Garden of Eden? Why are there many languages today,?

MightySparrow:

Good thinking. What do you suppose the language spoken in the Garden of Eden? Why are there many languages today,?

He's just slamming his head on a wall without any gain. In Islam our belief is that Adam and Eve were the first human couple so they must have spoken to each other and certainly it's the same language. So if they're the ancestors of all mankind definitely there was a time that everyone on this planet spoke the same language.
After this response he stopped responding to me:

MaxInDHouse:

YES! Adam and Eve were the first humans so all their descendants spoke one language!

MaxInDHouse:


He's just slamming his head on a wall without any gain. In Islam our belief is that Adam and Eve were the first human couple so they must have spoken to each other and certainly it's the same language. So if they're the ancestors of all mankind definitely there was a time that everyone on this planet spoke the same language.
After this response he stopped responding to me:

You don dey expose your boko haram self now. That's very good.

I talk am say you just dey hide for that sect where you dey. You don m0lest all the small children for your community mosque. Na KH be your next target.

Head slamming pedophile antichrist.

Chatinent shey Una Sabi do olofofo for where Una members dey? Come report this pedophile before em r@pe your relative.

VenumX:


You don dey expose your boko haram self now. That's very good.

I talk am say you just dey hide for that sect where you dey. You don m0lest all the small children for your community mosque. Na KH be your next target.

Head slamming pedophile antichrist.

Chatinent shey Una Sabi do olofofo for where Una members dey? Come report this pedophile before em r@pe your relative.

He said he was once a Moslem.

MaxInDHouse:
After reading in context wait for whatever you think is the right application as for millions across the globe we have found the meaning and applying it PRACTICALLY as one big and happy family of peace loving worshipers! Isaiah 2:2-4; Micah 4:1-3

He is not referring to those who engage in idolatry....or who reverence any one apart from the creator....

You got it wrong..

That text is spurious, and is being disputed by reputable scholars and textual critics
Nothing like that happened
A lot of myths interwovened into the Torah

The previous chapter tells us that after the flood that Noah's descendants mushroomed into different tribes and languages.
Then suddenly the earth became of one speech and tongue