The Tower of Babel (Biblical Stories Explained)

Sometimes it's easier to just change your worshippers' language instead of knocking down their puny tower.

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[kennarajora]

I can see how that went down. "Hey Aaron, so take the stones and μεταφέρετε την πέτρα από το λατομείο
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[keyshyia]

I love learning about the Bible and it’s history.

[Strohkopfs]

"He could have just asked them to stop". Yeah that works always very good with humanity XD

[twilightgardenspresentatio]

everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die for it

[themightyflog]

They built the tower of Bable in opposition to God - he said to fill the Earth. When he confused the languages they went in different directions. Also why many cultures have similar customs, building methods and stories of the gods. They would have taken that around the world.

[jberryhill]

No matter your reasoning for doing all you do, you’re helping more people than you will ever realize. Continue your path my friend, and we will continue ours. Love and respect.

[RuiWang-zmue]

Throughout history, when people in large region become unified, their capabilities are indeed amplified. They become capable of great projects such as the Great Wall or The city of Constineople. However, these large empires were also responsible for some of the greatest catastrophes in human history. With a unified people, the power that such unification brings tend to rest in the hands of the few who govern them. The holders of such powers rarely use it responsibly.

[fatheroflights]

Just finished a short story, by Ted Chiang, called Tower Of Babylon. In this story, they build the tower way up into the sky. It takes months and months to climb, and has been being built for centuries. It was a cool sci-fi take on things.

[prophetsofbabel]

I recently heard someone say that scholars were beginning to believe that the Tower was just a story to teach a principle. I am glad you showed all the other stories to support the actuality of the story. Thanks.

[svnt]

You can only enter heaven thru spirit not by flesh

[IamwhoIam]

That is WHY WORDS ARE AS IMPORTANT AS YOUR ACTIONS.

[PrimordialChaos]

I read the tower was a portal into other spiritual realms. Also confusing languages could not be limited to verbal language but body and mind. We have to be careful of the spiritual doors we build and open, including our relationships.

[dantheman]

In the Bible, the reason why the tower of Bable was bad was because after the flood, god told humans to spread over the whole earth. The tower was made in direct defiance of that heavenly order.

Also in the Book of Jasher it mentions the mind set of the builders. It says that there were 3 schools of thought among them, 1 group wanted to reach heaven to fight with god, the other group wanted to reach heaven so they could replace god with their own idols, the last group wanted to get to heaven to kill god. When god sent his angels to destroy the tower, he made all the people who wanted to kill god die by falling, being burned in the fires the angels set in the tower or die by the hand of humans in the confusion. The group that wanted to replace god with their own idols were turned into wild animals by the angels. The first group who wanted to fight with god had their languages confused and the ones who were scattered.

[davids.]

i hope god is not that really mad bc of the international space station

[ruthienelson]

The lesson I am learning from this is man's ambition can sometimes lead to arrogance. Arrogance can lead to disobedience; which is why we have to check ourselves and remain humble and kind in this life. Humbleness helps protect us from becoming too arrogant.

[blk_fist]

Now they advertise a program on the radio called Babel to try and get everyone to learn all the languages.

[richardhegyes]

He made men for Himself. They, we hate God because no one wants to be dependent on Him or give Him glory. Because of the devils influence on each one of us we don’t believe

[davidmeloche]

Castiel from tv show "Supernatural" : I saw when man built the Tower of Babel...all 25 feet of it." Lol, loved that line.

[HeartInLight]

The tower of babel reached an eye watering height of 8, 150 feet based on the texts. It dwarfs anything standing today. Whats interesting is that there is a stone tablet in sumaria that talks about the flood. And was in a different language. So there were multiple languages before the flood. So the ancient standing stone structures that have writing inside, and many of the writings around the world that cannot be decipherd. Some of them were pre flood. Which I find extremely interesting. A real look into our past.

[christianprincess]

The Tower of Babel is about PRIDE. They wanted to make a name for themselves...they were not glorifying the one and only true God.Their own arrogance was their downfall.