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10/16/2018 8:16:43 PM
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Was the Tower of Babel the reason for the diversity of language?
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See, you are trying to build a series of polls to say. Look how illogical and dumb these Christians are. But you miss that logically, Christians should believe these things. If you believe the Bible is the inerrant word of god. Then you must believe that all of it is inerrant. including the weird and wild stuff. So if you are being logical about what you believe then the tower of Babel happened. the great flood happened and Jonah did get swallowed by the whale. If otherwise, you are being illogical with your beliefs.
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Reminds me of this book I read recently, Snow Crash.
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3 RepliesYou know, it is really hard to think about where all these diverse and complex languages come from.
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1 ReplyIt’s said that the Tower was built by mankind so that they could be closer to Heaven. God punished them for their insolence and divided them into different languages
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16 RepliesA lot of stories in the Old Testament were parables. Some just contained very large metaphors. For instance, the tale of Jonah. It states that he was swallowed up by a whale when he refused to go to a wicked city. Of course, that sounds slightly strange. The more logical interpretation of that is the whale is his shame, and he felt guilty for a few days before the whale “spat him back out,” which is more likely him traveling to the aforementioned wicked city.
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Shrek
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35 RepliesI'm a Christian and I do not believe Babel accounts for all language diversity. Maybe some, but not all. Most Christians who accept a literal Babel that gave rise to all linguistic diversity, also subscribe to the global flood narrative. The global flood (as framed by young earth literalism) is simply not possible given the most basic observations of geology, biology, ecology, etc... You can say "well it was a miracle that only an all powerful God could perform". But such a claim, if accepted, essentially renders material reality unknowable. If God willy nilly alters things so as to contradict the very laws He Himself imposed on the universe, than he very well might have created the universe last Thursday. You can accept this (or some lesser variation) but if you do, you undermine your ability to trust your most basic senses. Nothing you think you know is necessarily true, even your faith in God. Literalism not only makes outrageous claims about Gods nature, it makes meaningful faith impossible.
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43 RepliesI don’t think even Christians believe this do they?
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8 RepliesEdited by Of 1000 teeth: 10/16/2018 11:01:03 PMNo but it did prompt the alien claiming to be “god” to feel threatened. Imagine, an omnipresent, omnipotent being, so divine and beyond human comprehension, that he felt insecure when another species dared to cross into his territory.
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2 RepliesWhat's with these questions
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2 RepliesI cant understand the question, stop babbling.
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7 Replies[quote]Wasn't that something like building a tower to heaven and being punished for it? Literally punishing teamwork and society building sounds pretty stupid.[/quote] ^Wyoming
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I do not think such a tower existed
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Mans pride to go out on his own and isolate himself in different lands created different languages so kinda yeah
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Edited by Plague Doctor: 10/17/2018 4:01:53 AMMostly. But a whole lot of languages were formed afterwards like English for example
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I'm mixed in that statement, I believe that the Tower of Babel existed, but language has naturally evolved as well.
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Yes. There are a lot of symbols in the Bible. The Tower of Babel could be literal or a symbol of something else
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At least nimrod failed to reach the firmament.
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Unfortunate bump
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3 RepliesTower of Babel?
