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Author Topic:   Tower of Babble (a bunch of baseless babble)
Godismyfather
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Message 52 of 198 (5242)
02-21-2002 6:39 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by quicksink
02-15-2002 8:31 AM


This is why HE never destoyed our 'towers', Genesis 11:4 says, "Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches the heavens, so tha we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over theface of the whole earth." In other words they wanted to build a stairway to heaven so they could actually be in heaven before they even died and see God (which He forbid to happen, if anyone sees God, they die). "They wanted to make good reputations for themselves (it was a selfish reason also, they were doing it for THEM). Rebellious men undertook a united and godless effort to establish, by a titanic human enterprise, a world renown, by which he would dominate God's creation." (tooken from the footnotes of the Concordia Self-Study Bible) They wanted to be gods themselves, to rule ALL creation.
None of todays skyscraoers were built for that reason. So of course he ain't gonna destroy it.
Yes, the tower of babel was the same height, but the people back then didn't know that heaven can't be reached when you're alive.
And an interesting quote from the CSB, "The word babel is of Akkadian origin and means "gateway to a god"." But "the Hebrew word used here (balal) sounds like 'Babel', the Hebrew word for Babylon and the origin of the English word 'babel.'" So the tower wasn't named that because of the 'fiasco', in lack of a better word, but we got our word from that.
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God Bless,
Victoria

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