Tower of babel story12/11/2023 Humans were proud that every single human being spoke the same language, and that their one language had only "a few words" (Genesis 11:1 literal translation from Hebrew). Humanity did not want curiosity to lead people to explore other locations and thus promote change and development (going against God’s blessing to "fill up the earth") and they did not want to expand their knowledge and vocabulary because that promotes non conformity and diversity. They felt very weak and vulnerable and they only wanted to huddle together in one place. In the aftermath of a catastrophically destructive flood in the days of Noah, many generations of humans were fearful and anxiety ridden. (Mirta Toledo/ CC BY SA 4.0 ) Post Flood Fear and the Tower of Babel Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.” (30:22) so multiple languages is not a punishment, but an act of mercy, as I will show below. The Qur’an informs us that the multiplicity of human languages is one of several signs of God’s power and planning: “And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Ancient Babylonian Tablet Provides Compelling Evidence that the Tower of Babel DID Exist.Inside Etemenanki: The Real-Life Tower of Babel.Pharaoh will counterattack the God of Moses first. Pharaoh knows this, but since he thinks he is the son of the God Horus, he sees the Prophet Moses’ challenge in the terms of a lowly human who is invading Pharaoh’s own domain. ‘The Tower of Babel’ (1594) by Lucas van Valckenborch. However, a careful reading of the Torah text shows that what the people built was an entire city made out of manufactured uniform bricks (Genesis 11:3) and the reason they built the city and the tower was not to challenge God, but to "make a name for themselves, lest they be dispersed over the whole earth.” Pharaoh said: "O Haman! Fire up (a kiln to bake bricks) of clay, and build me a lofty tower, that I may mount up to the God of Moses: but as far as I am concerned, I think (Moses) is a liar!" (Qur’an 28:38) Thus, the Qur'an says that Pharaoh, mockingly and arrogantly asks his associate Haman to build a lofty tower. The conventional understanding of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is that humanity arrogantly challenged God 's space through invading it by building a "tower with its head reaching up to the heavens".
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