From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. That is why it was called Babel-because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’ The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.’īut the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. Also considered is the possibility that the Biblical Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, was the Sumerian king Gilgamesh, and that he also was genetically Nephilim.“Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. She would therefore have passed her DNA to some of her children (especially to her son Canaan) and later descendants, so that individuals of large size and/or psychopathic behavior could therefore reappear later in history. This paper explores a possibility that may not have been previously considered – that the wife of Ham (one of the sons of Noah), who was one of the individuals present on the ark, was born from Nephilim stock. But the Bible indicates that the Nephilim reappeared after presumably being killed off in the Flood. Immediately after they are mentioned, Genesis goes on to discuss how the heart and minds of people became continually evil, and God’s flood judgement in response. being very belligerent, sexually aggressive, and prone to conflict. They are first mentioned in Genesis chapter 6 as the progeny of the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men.” Although the psychological characteristics of the Nephilim are not specifically described in the Bible, they are pictured in the Second Temple writings as. The Nephilim were said to be a race or a group of people that had distinct physical characteristics of large size and great strength. The Great Flood saw God return the Earth to a state of. This may well be the real reason why God took the action that He did, and the significance it has for society. The Tower of Babel is a short story from the Old Testament following the Great Flood from Genesis 10. Human government is necessary but also has the potential for incredible evil, and a one-world government is one of the worst things that could ever happen. Power was effectively centralized under one king (possibly Nimrod) after a series of military conquests. Perhaps the phrase “nothing would be impossible for them” should be understood in terms of the potential for a one-world government. Idolatry because people came to view themselves as gods and caved to their desire to earthly fame. Rebellion because it went against God’s mandate for mankind, fill the Earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1, and Genesis 9:7). The reason given for this action by God was that society had become centralized and “nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.” This seems to be a rather strange and cryptic reason for the action that God took. In the eyes of God, the Tower of God was a sign of rebellion and idolatry. In response to this Genesis 11 indicates that God confused the language of the people into ancient versions of the languages we speak today. Everyone at the time spoke variations of the same language, possibly proto-Indo-European.Ī large tower/temple was being constructed by the rulers. The Tower of Babel was a large temple planned for and possibly constructed on the plains of Shinar somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia by the peoples descended from the sons of Noah.
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