Why Doesn't God Destroy the New Tower of Babel, or Change Everyone's Language?

[Diogenes]

Man has now far exceeded the Tower of Babel, sending people to the Moon, hundreds of satellites into orbit, and more out of the solar system. God was supposedly threatened by a little Ziggurat and man's boldness in Genesis 11. Is he sleeping? Dead?

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I believe that i covered that; God was not there but they thought he was. So why would God be bothered?

The point about control just raises more questions because it sounds (not for the first time) that God does not know the future or he'd know that this effort at Control was not going to work.

Bible tells the goal of the tower was to prevent people to scatter. And God apparently didn't like the idea, because then He scattered people. Why didn't God like the idea that people had? Maybe because He had said that people should multiply and fill the earth. Or maybe He wanted people to be free and not ruled by some tyrant on top of high tower.

Bible doesn't say the goal was to reach God. Therefore there is no intelligent reason to think that idea was bothering God.

...strange tale, and you have pretty much had to fiddle what it says to fit it to science (there is no heaven where God lives that can be reached by a tower)....

It seems to me that you are mixing up yourself to "science".

That is to say, it doesn't matter how you explain the problems away to yourself, is anyone else going to agree with you?

Your problems with the story seems to be artificial, based on funny reading and not on actual demonstrable true facts.

[TRANSPONDER]

I believe that i covered that; God was not there but they thought he was. So why would God be bothered?

The point about control just raises more questions because it sounds (not for the first time) that God does not know the future or he'd know that this effort at Control was not going to work.

Bible tells the goal of the tower was to prevent people to scatter. And God apparently didn't like the idea, because then He scattered people. Why didn't God like the idea that people had? Maybe because He had said that people should multiply and fill the earth. Or maybe He wanted people to be free and not ruled by some tyrant on top of high tower.

Bible doesn't say the goal was to reach God. Therefore there is no intelligent reason to think that idea was bothering God.

...strange tale, and you have pretty much had to fiddle what it says to fit it to science (there is no heaven where God lives that can be reached by a tower)....

It seems to me that you are mixing up yourself to "science".

That is to say, it doesn't matter how you explain the problems away to yourself, is anyone else going to agree with you?

Your problems with the story seems to be artificial, based on funny reading and not on actual demonstrable true facts.

Your problem is that you reject the way the evidence points, dismiss accepted science and take the funny story in the Bible - which even you have to interpret to fit the science that even you can't deny without looking absurd - as somehow true. And it doesn't even matter. it doesn't hurt me at all that you accuse me of 'funny reading' and demand 'true facts' which I have yet to see from you. I doubt that any but the more dyed in wool Genesis -literalist will swallow this palpable origin -story and that you reject and dismiss the best argument that I have that Babel was NOT the way different languages happened doesn't bother me in the least, because the debates and discussions aren't about expecting the Believers to say 'Goshdarn, I was wrong!', but for those with their minds still ajar to say:"Goshdarn, he was wrong!"

P. s .I just noted that we have 14 guests! That's awesome welcome,welcome. If I had one concern about logging on here it was that there only ever seemed to be me and two spambots logged in. It was my hope that, like a website subscription, interest in these lively debates would increase to match those on my former board, where 6000 views a day were usual.