tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post504497031117284870..comments2023-09-18T02:56:01.703-07:00Comments on Walter Kirn's Permanent Morning: Disciplining The Bad Puppy That is Man and Why The Internet is Doomed -- Bible Study, Night FourWalter Kirn or "Walt"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791836439071305007noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-87857490809898172552011-12-04T02:25:35.033-08:002011-12-04T02:25:35.033-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-89877825657141452642011-12-04T02:23:07.082-08:002011-12-04T02:23:07.082-08:00Wow. What a stupid commentary on the tower of Babe...Wow. What a stupid commentary on the tower of Babel. First: If you are going to comment on the Bible go study and read some more theology.<br />Second: The tower of Babel was sinful because mountains were the places where people could invoke gods in ancient religions and the tower of Babel was an artificial mountain that would be used to manipulate God as if he was just like the ancient gods.<br />God loves teamwork () so just stop being an ignorant twat and try to study theology for once before you comment on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-63473359269820918862011-11-30T20:33:59.152-08:002011-11-30T20:33:59.152-08:00Effective writing! But God wasn't afraid for h...Effective writing! But God wasn't afraid for himself when he saw the people erecting the tower. He knew that mankind would eventually develop and use the weaponry to destroy all life on the earth (Matt 24:21-22, Gen 6:5, etc), so he was concerned for the people, and slowed our progress down by separating us into disparate languages/cultures (That way, we didn't develop the that made that possible until the 1940s). He has no problem with big building projects like, oh, I don't know the construction of the Firsts temple (1 king 10:1-10, especially v. 4).... But, if I had only read the first 11 chapters of Genesis, I might arrive at the same incorrect conclusions you came to. The Bible can't be understood if you read it from beginning to end. It is, as Isaiah wrote, "precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little (chp. 28:9-10).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-78287425110900712122011-11-29T07:45:14.196-08:002011-11-29T07:45:14.196-08:00Maybe the fact that god is childish is more a refl...Maybe the fact that god is childish is more a reflection on us than it is of god. I like to return to the question of whether god created man in his own image, or if maybe man created god in his own image. Either way, we're just all children who get wrinkles.emersondartagnanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00979435347794318887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-760806345515264122011-11-29T05:55:47.615-08:002011-11-29T05:55:47.615-08:00I don't consider myself religious, but I know ...I don't consider myself religious, but I know there are many interpretations of the Bible, as well as, reinterpretations. It's fascinating how scholars go back to Hebrew and Greek and try to get the correct meanings of words, than study to figure how to put it into the context of the times. Plus, what passages meant to the people they were originally written for.Debra Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04553596042707601518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808670041290466552.post-45122273904776890312011-11-29T04:20:00.305-08:002011-11-29T04:20:00.305-08:00Another interpretation for your consideration:
Wh...Another interpretation for your consideration:<br /><br />What offends God is not teamwork, but the ends to which teamwork is put. The "people" build the tower "to make a name" for themselves and as a safeguard against being scattered across the earth -- that is, to enhance their own status and centralize their power on earth.<br /><br />Only God's name is great, and only God can prevent people from being scattered. While it is true that God's stated reaction to the tower is similar to his reasons for expelling Adam and Eve from Eden (so they won't eat from the Tree of Life), what God takes away from the people in this fable of how or why different languages were born turns out to be a gift.<br /><br />God gives humankind a challenge: to work together in spite of different languages. Perhaps by variegating languages (and, by extension, cultures), humankind may learn to appreciate God's handiwork and power. They may even begin to fear God, which scripture tells us is the beginning of wisdom.<br /><br />God complicates man's ability to function as a "hive mind." God is worried about what humankind will think is possible or impossible for them, not that they will supplant or usurp him. God cannot be usurped.<br /><br />Nothing is impossible, but nothing is impossible *with God*. It's when humankind acts on its own without consideration of God that trouble begins.<br /><br />Just another suggested interpretation.Workshop TSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749734135248992798noreply@blogger.com