The Bible says God got mad at the people building tower of babel b/c they were trying to reach heaven.  Why?
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Oh sweet!  I never thought of that.
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No one knows the answer.  The bible thumpers try to blame it on God but it doesn't answer the basic question of "Why?".  There is not yet a satisfying answer that I know of.
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onefootnaked:  I'm absolutely certain that God intended for humans to not travel any faster than their legs or the legs of beasts of burden can carry them....   however, most of us use cars, trains, and airplanes for transportation.\n\nI'm fairly certain that God intended for humans to not build skyscrapers <even stopped people from doing it in the bible> yet every major city has them...  some of us even work inside them.\n\nI'm relatively certain that to be a Christian like Jesus described his followers, we should give away all that we have, leave our families behind, and just follow Christ....  however I have never met the person who did that.\n\nTo answer the question here, abomination, in the bible really means "things hated by god."  But it doesn't matter.  Many things are listed in the Bible as an abomination, yet nobody seems to care until gay people want to be left alone.\n\nThe apostle Paul said that christians shouldn't get married, that it was better if they could live celibate lives like he did.  But you don't notice any Christians trying to ban straight marriage.\n\nThe truth is it doesn't matter what the Bible says about homosexuality.  It says so many crazy things that even if it said in clear and precise language that "god hates fags." I wouldn't pay it much attention.\n\nIt's not about god or christianity.  It's about people loving people.  Anybody against people loving people doesn't matter.
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Beats me why they get so upset over it,\n\nBut yes there is no rules against it in the bible
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Not too hard to understand..\nThe two angels went into sodom to bring Lot and his family out so that God could destroy the city...\nGen 19:5 The men of the city wanted Lot to bring the 2 men out so that they could have homosexual sex with them.\nGen 19:9  They are saying that Lot came in to visit and live in Sodom and now he was trying to become a judge, or change the customs of the people there..  \nGen 19:11,12  The two angels (were in the form of men) and they pulled Lot back inside the house and made the people outside of the house blind.  V12 they are telling Lot that they are going to destroy the city and that he needs to get his family together and go with them..  \n\nLev 18:22  It is an abomination to God when men have homosexual or sodomite sexual relations..  Man was made for woman not man for man..  \nThis is pretty straightforward and I just preached on the whole theme two sundays ago.\n\nGen 13:13  But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. \nTHIS throws a little light on Sodom, they were wicked people and their sin was so bad that their wickedness had come up to God, and he had to deal with it..  I also take this to mean that they had some understanding of what God's rules were and just didn't care..
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God doesn't follow his own teachings.  It is lust, and greed.  His first commandment shows that he would be envious if you worshiped anyone else.  He also killed babies in Egypt breaking his thou shall not kill commandment.  He also broke his commandment of not coveting your neighbors wife when he knocked up Mary.  If God went by his own rules, he'd be in hell!
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Because people dont actualy read their Bibles. Sad.
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Jesus was not following His plan He was following the Fathers plan... the end of the book of John says: that all of the miracles that Jesus performed would; if they were written down; the whole world could not contain them. \nLazarus was part of Gods plan... part of the ministry teachings that Jesus did on the earth, and God knew that it would still be relevant today. \n\n\nJohn the baptist was killed for preaching the word of God. Why would Jesus want to take away Johns Glorious place in heaven.
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It is *mankind* that portrays God as angry and threatening.  He has no reason to be angry or to threaten.  He has left us to our own devices to choose and suffer the consequences of a bad decision so we will learn.  When we make bad decisions, and suffer because of it, many blame God.  It's just silly!
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Read the New Testament...lol..joking...\n\nReal Answer...\n\nPersonally, I think the Tower of Babel story is a metaphor that is used to explain how we ended up speaking in different languages, and look totally different.  When the bible was written the people of the time didn't have any inkling of the idea of evolution.  If G-d explained about evolution and why Africans have darker skin because of the heat and Asians eyes are they way they are because of the cold and wind, the people of the time would not be able to grasp that idea.  That story was their way of explaining it where they would understand it. \n\nI think the bible has to be interpreted because G-d knows that people are all different, we all have free will.  What might seem perfectly logical to some might seem outrageous to others.  I think the only thing that G-d really cares about is that people know Him.
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God has made of ONE blood ALL Nations of Men\n\nActs 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation (Gen.11:8-9 below):\n\n\nI believe that when the Lord confounded the language at the Tower of Babel (Gen.11:1-9 below),  what also  accompanied the confounding of the language would have been that with the many languages that were given, the skin pigmentation and features of the people changed according to the languages given, so that when the people were scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth (Gen.11:8-9 below), the skin pigmentation/features went with them to their respective regions of the earth?\n\nGen.11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.\n\nGen.11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.\n\nGen.11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.\n\nGen.11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.\n\nGen.11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.\n\nGen.11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and 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.\n\nGen.11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language (Gen.11:9 below), that they may not understand one another's speech.\n\nGen.11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of ALL the earth (Gen.11:9 below): and they left off to build the city.\n\nGen.11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth (Gen.11:7 above): and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of ALL the earth (Acts 17:26 above).\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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Peter was bold, and had a hot temper. Satan wanted to use his temper against peter.\nPeter said grow in grace. \n11 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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Your asking them about their relegion..what really makes them mad is when they say they dont believe in god and then you tell them they are going to hell...since they dont believe in god there is no hell to them
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It was more symbolic to the fact that while Moses was up on the Mt. the Israelites were breaking every commandment  that God had set for them to obey. Moses chose to destroy the Ten Commandments because the Israelites had once again defiled the covenant they had established with God and this upset Moses and also hurt God to see his people sin. However, God did later make a second identical set of the Ten Commandments for the Children of Israel to carry with them in the Ark of the Covenant.\n\n-In response to Julie B's comment about God punishing Moses... he kept Moses out of the Promise Land because he struck the rock twice when the Israelites needed water and God provided it from a rock to show them his power and their need for dependecny on him, but Moses tried to take credit for the work which God did. God looked upon his heart and examined his intentions for striking the rock twice when God only wanted him to strike it once. It was another occassion entirely.
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King James Bible:  Psalms 37:29  The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.\n\nModern Translation:  29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,\nAnd they will reside forever upon it.\n\nI grew up in the Church of Christ, they teach that approved persons go to Heaven, bad people go to Hell, if what they say is true, then no one is left on the Earth, and King David told us a lie.\n\nThis one scripture is what caused me to start studying the Bible, and what a large amount of Bible knowledge have I consumed.
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Not only that but God told Joshua to go into a certain city, I believe it was Jericho and kill everyone, and not to leave anyone alive. Sounds more like Bin Laden than a loving God. The Old Testament God has been painted to look rather savage and bloodthirsty. I consider the fact that the Bible was written not by God but by humans with agendas and ambitions.
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I guess that even if Heaven could be reached by using a StarShip, or any other mode of transportation.....which way would head?   With Babel, they were building a stationary object....so up was their choice of direction.