Week 2, Reading Diary B, Noah: The Tower of Babel,Reading Diary

Noah: The Tower of Babel

en.wikipedia.org Tower of Babel

The enterprise was neither more nor less than rebellion against God, and there were three sorts of rebels among the builders. The first party spoke, "Let us ascend into the heavens and wage warfare with Him;" the second party spoke, "Let us ascend into the heavens, set up our idols, and pay worship unto them there;" and the third party spoke, "Let us ascend into the heavens, and ruin them with our bows and spears."

This is interesting to me that at this point the people believe that God dwells in a physical place that can be reached by humans and that God could be hurt by humans.

 I chose this story because this story has always seemed strange to me. How all the different languages came about. I do not know much about linguistics but I doubt that they believe this bit of mythology either. I think that the story is very old and has some misunderstood aspects. I understand this story more as a cosmogony to answer how many languages and cultures were made, but this is not really what happened.

I think about the most amazing megalithic buildings that exist all over our planet and the tales of Atlantis a time of great technology. I believe that perhaps the time of Noah corresponds to the timeline of Atlantis-the deluge. I think the story of the tower of babel may predate the deluge.

Many, many years were passed in building the tower. It reached so great a height that it took a year to mount to the top.

Holy cow that is a tall building. Nope, I do not believe that they have or will find this place archeologically. I think it sank to the bottom of the ocean.

They never slackened in their work, and from their dizzy height they constantly shot arrows toward heaven, which, returning, were seen to be covered with blood. They were thus fortified in their delusion, and they cried, "We have slain all who are in heaven."

Are you kidding me? Shooting arrows into the sky? Were they actually killing each other while building this thing? What could possibly motivate a large cultural civilization to undertake this type of physically demanding feat of building this massive building to start a war with God. Would it not beg to ponder that maybe it was a rocket ship they built to launch into the sky? If you remember the stories in the Bhagavad Gita it sounds like some of their stories of the wars in heaven with gods.

To every nation a peculiar language was assigned, Hebrew being reserved for Israel--the language made use of by God at the creation of the world.

And the beginning the word was god. things that make you go, Hmmm.