Why did God destroy the Tower of Babel?

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Why did God destroy the Tower of Babel? Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:09:51 368752 No.737137

God knows how space works and more importantly how Heaven works and that it was impossible to build a stupid tower to Heaven, so why did it bother him? If humanity going unnaturally upward were the issue, wouldn’t be destroy every attempt at spacefaring? If it’s humanit uniting to do things against His plan (in this case going to heaven without dying) then why would other acts of defiance not be just as directly and immediately acted upon?

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:14:26 54fa3a No.737143

>>737137

Because intent matters. Obviously, God knew that the tower would not reach Heaven. The idea is preposterous. But the fact that they TRIED is what mattered.

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:15:12 ea0a63 No.737144

God was punishing them for their hubris. He punished them by confusing the languages, so that from then on mankind was divided and could not attempt such an endeavor again. From among those nations he chose one, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to be his nation and bring forth the savior of humanity so that the nations could be gathered together under this savior rather than under their own worldly union at Babel.

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:30:34 8cf57d No.737150

>>737137

Did you read Genesis? God told man to fill the earth, but they disobeyed by congregating in one place. Genesis 1:28

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:31:57 241205 No.737151

>>737137

All nations joined together under a common goal of proving they were more powerful than God (immune to any future floods (yes I know God promised there'd be no more)). This is obviously impossible, and evil, to be so proud so as to taunt and challenge the Lord. So God was angry, destroyed the tower as punishment, and then scattered the people into seperate nations of different languages. Now, with the nations separate, if any people are to be moronic enough to do something like that, other nations can disagree, fight, and the problems are eliminated.

It was anger at pride and Godlessness. And it was a warning against a one world government, which will inevitably corrupt (as all men do) and be unchallenged.

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:33:23 475f83 No.737152

>>737151

Plus, this was maybe two generations after He ordered mankind to spread out and fill the earth. As usual, we had one simple job and did exactly what we were told NOT to do instead.

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:41:48 96b787 No.737158

Because it is possible to build a tower to heaven, as the third heaven is a physical place above the firmament

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:47:02 d7f508 No.737160

the tower was a connection to the central pillar between the multiple dimensions of the universe. humans wanted to cast it into a void to destroy the projection of god so they can make a new world filled with their own intent

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:48:33 5a9067 No.737162

>>737158

No it’s not there’s a physical limit to how much of a structure you can put on Earth before you start to make the crust sink (and you can’t build an earth structure into deep space and beyond)

>>737160

This sounds like a JRPG and not any orthodox view

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:49:49 475f83 No.737163

>>737158

>>737160

/x/ and soypilled

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:51:23 d7f508 No.737165

>>737162

>>737163

fine the aryan race was about to ascend to god through there righteousness and the ancient semites destroyed it

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 00:52:10 475f83 No.737166

>>737165

Cringe and bluepillled

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 02:56:19 96b787 No.737200

>>737162

Deep space does not exist

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 03:11:20 f58a76 No.737204

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God couldn't allow the anti-christ to rein until the last days.

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 03:14:20 5a9067 No.737205

>>737200

What a brainlet response

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 03:29:37 051fce No.737210

It was the first Satanic kingdom on Earth.

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 04:05:00 fa0e51 No.737215

>look at this thing we built we must be better than god

>*oh no we got BTFO by god*

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 04:19:40 5a9067 No.737222

>>737215

I get that but it’s like:

>We built as high as we can and there’s no heaven in sight!

>yes you fallen doofuses I literally made reality and one of its rules is that thing I kept telling you was a rule, who could’ve guessed

The futility would have been realized just as much without scattering humanity

Christanon 12/06/18 (Thu) 04:34:43 786482 No.737237

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>>737137

basically because this >>737144

>God was punishing them for their hubris.

They were planning to build:

< … a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for (((ourselves))) …

And God concluded:

< … they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. …

Basically, with one worldwide language, one government, the hubris of man was so great that we were utterly unconstrained in our self regard, thinking ourselves capable of anything, and, God says, probably right.

But, it isn't that God wanted to necessarily constrain our technology, as most fedoras will assert, but our hubris, our self-aggrandizing conviction that we didn't need God, that we could do what was damn-diddley-amn-wanted to do. Sound familiar?

To wit, where there was once as many as 30,000 languages worldwide, there is estimated to be 6,500 - 7,000 languages now left in the world with about 2,000 of those having fewer than a thousand speakers, while the top 30 languages are spoken by about 60% of the world. We are rapidly undoing the Tower of Babel curse … and … would you just look at that … the state of the world.