why was it called babel? (serious question)
what's the meaning of "babel"?
Topic: Miracles of Bible... - page 6. (Read 4607 times)
One "miracle" included in the bible I very much like comes from the Tower of Babel, during Genesis, which basically describes how god was afraid of what humans might be able to accomplish, should they put their minds to it, now that they were a single people with a single language - that coming from a sadistic, cruel, genocidal, overpowering bully, is quite encouraging. 
The episode, as described by The Brick Testament (http://www.thebricktestament.com/home.html), now with more Lego:
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:1-2
Now all the earth had one language and spoke the same dialect. When they moved to the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:2-4
They settled there and said to each other, 'Let's form bricks and bake them. Let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let's make a name for ourselves, for otherwise we'll be scattered across the face of the earth.'
Genesis 11:3
They used bricks instead of stone, and asphalt for mortar.
Genesis 11:5-6
And Yahweh went down to see the city and the tower that the sons of humankind were building, and said, 'Look! A single people with a single language, and this is what they start to do! Now nothing they plan will be impossible for them!'
Genesis 11:7
'Come, let's go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another.'
Genesis 11:8
And Yahweh scattered them from that place across the face of the earth.
Genesis 11:8
And they stopped building the city.
Genesis 11:9
That is why it was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. And Yahweh scattered them from that place across the face of the earth.
The episode, as described by The Brick Testament (http://www.thebricktestament.com/home.html), now with more Lego:
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:1-2
Now all the earth had one language and spoke the same dialect. When they moved to the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:2-4
They settled there and said to each other, 'Let's form bricks and bake them. Let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let's make a name for ourselves, for otherwise we'll be scattered across the face of the earth.'
Genesis 11:3
They used bricks instead of stone, and asphalt for mortar.
Genesis 11:5-6
And Yahweh went down to see the city and the tower that the sons of humankind were building, and said, 'Look! A single people with a single language, and this is what they start to do! Now nothing they plan will be impossible for them!'
Genesis 11:7
'Come, let's go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another.'
Genesis 11:8
And Yahweh scattered them from that place across the face of the earth.
Genesis 11:8
And they stopped building the city.
Genesis 11:9
That is why it was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. And Yahweh scattered them from that place across the face of the earth.
The first miracle of the Bible is the creation, itself. Genesis 1:1,2: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Why is this a miracle? Because nobody has a clue as to how it was done.
The greater miracle than the creation is the fact that God was willing to, and did, effect a method for saving the greatest part of His creation, the people, when they rebelled against Him. Genesis 3:1-19: Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Why is this a miracle? Because nobody has a clue as to how it was done.
The greater miracle than the creation is the fact that God was willing to, and did, effect a method for saving the greatest part of His creation, the people, when they rebelled against Him. Genesis 3:1-19: Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Saying 'god made it' isn't a miracle nor is it a satisfiable answer to the creation of the entire universe and everything in it. I guess sometimes people just turn off their brain and believe what they want to believe.
The scientists Christians who talk like they know a little, are only really guessing that the little they know might have a hint of truth bullshit to it.
Fixed.
You might as well believe that Moses never died and he eventually turned into Satoshi.
the best joke ive heard on this forum so far.. its hilarious
Yes it is funny. The husband of khadijah could not be satoshi indeed...
Why did you lock your thread? I was planning to participate in it, the same way you participate in this one right here... Too bad.
too many request to lock it. and these religious thread is just getting ridiculous. its not helping anyone learn or clear the misunderstandings. but more hate and more misunderstanding.
I have to say... Compared to other forum threads on the internet, most here, coming from either side of a particular subjects are pretty self controlled.
Why would anyone start a thread, then to be forced to lock it if there were no personal threats? Maybe the people asking you to lock it have no self control of their emotion?
The only true deity that makes this particular forum alive is bitcoin. Once you realize this, everything here tastes like a delicious ice cream under a beautiful blue sky...
got messages from both "parties" if i can say. asking me to lock it before it gets out of hands. so i did.
Seeing these threads, I'm starting to think that religions were made by quarelling immortal siblings.
that is just an outstanding stupidity.
that is just an outstanding stupidity.
You might as well believe that Moses never died and he eventually turned into Satoshi.
the best joke ive heard on this forum so far.. its hilarious
Yes it is funny. The husband of khadijah could not be satoshi indeed...
Why did you lock your thread? I was planning to participate in it, the same way you participate in this one right here... Too bad.
too many request to lock it. and these religious thread is just getting ridiculous. its not helping anyone learn or clear the misunderstandings. but more hate and more misunderstanding.
I have to say... Compared to other forum threads on the internet, most here, coming from either side of a particular subjects are pretty self controlled.
Why would anyone start a thread, then to be forced to lock it if there were no personal threats? Maybe the people asking you to lock it have no self control of their emotion?
The only true deity that makes this particular forum alive is bitcoin. Once you realize this, everything here tastes like a delicious ice cream under a beautiful blue sky...
too many request to lock it. and these religious thread is just getting ridiculous. its not helping anyone learn or clear the misunderstandings. but more hate and more misunderstanding.
Too many requests to lock it? Fibber. The only people seeking to lock your Quran thread would be other Muslims, equally afraid of the facts and objective reasoning that you were unable to counter.
Here is a stone-cold fact for you:
You are a person who has been raised to believe in something simply on the basis that you are told to believe in it. That is called indoctrination.
Education, however, is what frees you, and those like you, from your theist indoctrination.
Unfortunately, however, part of your theist conditioning is to fear anything which might require you to maintain intellectual honesty and integrity. This is why you, and those like you from many different religions, will do anything to avoid actually conducting an objective debate about your belief, because theism *requires* a state of persistent intellectual dishonesty be maintained by its adherents.
Otherwise is falls apart under critical analysis.
You might as well believe that Moses never died and he eventually turned into Satoshi.
the best joke ive heard on this forum so far.. its hilarious
Yes it is funny. The husband of khadijah could not be satoshi indeed...
Why did you lock your thread? I was planning to participate in it, the same way you participate in this one right here... Too bad.
too many request to lock it. and these religious thread is just getting ridiculous. its not helping anyone learn or clear the misunderstandings. but more hate and more misunderstanding.
The first miracle of the Bible is the creation, itself. Genesis 1:1,2
Awww crap, BADecker is here, the Xtian equivalent of the Muslims who shut down the 'Miracles of the Quran' thread when facts got in the way of their delusional comfort-blanket.
Xslims?
The first miracle of the Bible is the creation, itself. Genesis 1:1,2
Awww crap, BADecker is here, the Xtian equivalent of the Muslims who shut down the 'Miracles of the Quran' thread when facts got in the way of their delusional comfort-blanket.
You might as well believe that Moses never died and he eventually turned into Satoshi.
the best joke ive heard on this forum so far.. its hilarious
Yes it is funny. The husband of khadijah could not be satoshi indeed...
Why did you lock your thread? I was planning to participate in it, the same way you participate in this one right here... Too bad.
You might as well believe that Moses never died and he eventually turned into Satoshi.
the best joke ive heard on this forum so far.. its hilarious
Everything in the Bible cannot possibly be true (some of it happened, but not all), and once you start "interpreting" the fictional stories, then what? You might as well believe that Moses never died and he eventually turned into Satoshi.
The guy who wrote that book were on shrooms for sure! Fun-shrooms give a new perspective in a good way
it was written by more than one person.
I am listed as Cristian but I haven't even read more than 10 bible verses in all my life.
for the sake of equality and the ongoing gathering of religious fundamentalists:
Fair and balanced!
The guy who wrote that book were on shrooms for sure! Fun-shrooms give a new perspective in a good way
for the sake of equality and the ongoing gathering of religious fundamentalists:
My favorite miracle is when Jesus turns water into wine and apparently a very good wine, it would be great having someone with that superpower around, maybe he could also turn sugar and grass into something else.
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