Why did God make all the people speak different langueges?

You've heard the term 'pride goeth before a fall' ? Well, this is a great example.

The tower itself was nothing, to God, but the attitude of the people sure was. They fancied themselves, able to build a tower to heaven.

God put a stop to it, without wiping them all out, by confusing the languages. He put them in their place without damaging them.

Completing......

At first everyone spoke the same language, but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia, they said:

Let’s build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky, we’ll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar.

We’ll become famous and we won’t be scattered all over the world, but when the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower, he said:

These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!

Come on.....Let’s go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages—then they won’t be able!

The story was meant as a warning against encroaching on "God's territory." Figuratively, they were building a tower that would reach the Heavens, so God punished them for it by dividing the people.

(Assuming this is all meant to be taken figuratively because lol, getting mad at towers and letting space travel slide.)

The people were following the great-grandson of Noah,

"Cush became father to Nim′rod. He made the start in becoming a mighty one in the earth. He displayed himself a mighty hunter *in opposition* to Jehovah. That is why there is a saying: 'Just like Nim′rod a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah'. And the beginning of his kingdom came to be . . .” --Genesis 10:8,9,10

Nimrod enjoyed showing off his ability to hunt, & he hunted everything, including humans. For pleasure, &, for fame. This is the man the people were following, in building a tower to the heavens, in an effort to glorify themselves. . .

Nimrod was the first human king.

God had commanded noah & his faily after the Flood, to,

“Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth." --Genesis 9:1

The people were ignoring this command.

By confusing their language / making them speak different languages, the different groups could no longer communicate easily, got frustrated, & finally moved to different geographical locations of the earth.

Languages---Bridges and Walls to Communication

- Pidgins, Creoles, and Lingua Francas

> The Origin of Languages

- Historical and Social Factors

http://watchtower.org/e/20000808/article_01.htm

God is a very Jealous God. He says so repeatedly. We'd already taken on Godlike abilities of being able to know good from evil on our own, without God's guidance. We got that from the forbidden fruit. Now if we were going to try to have technical abilities of allow us to reach heaven on our own, what were we going to need God for?

(But, as I have said in answer to other questions, this is an allegory, or rather part of an allegory for growing up and gaining independence from your parents, or nationally, gaining independence from whatever state or tribe founded your current state or tribe.)

Because men were trying to become like God by their own efforts.

This pictures how such an aim is impossible.

I believe God steps in to man's affairs like this when man goes so far in his evil pursuits that not stopping them would be unbearably tragic for the people. He told man to replenish the earth (spread out) but most it appears did not. I believe a Sodom and Gomorah atmosphere would have soon followed if he hadn't stepped in. Or perhaps disease. Or perhaps a self-grandizement that would have caused them to feel they were gods with no need for God. The result of not stepping in just isn't explained, but I know it would have been bad for them if he hadn't.

Read Acts 2:

1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

It is because Noah's sons were told to spread out and repopulate the earth, but here we see their descendants doing just the opposite and staying in one location...so God gives them a little help :-P

Tolerance of inability to communicate and of different races.

Wow. You actually believe that a group of dudes decided to invent and spread foreign languages just to go against sky floater?

Talk about a simpletons mind at work.