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In the bible, the Tower of Babel can reach heaven, can air plane reach heaven?

Update:

"they agree to build a tower tall enough to reach heaven, and god prevent it".

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    No. Humans are subject to God’s physical laws. For instance, can mankind ignore the law of gravity? What would they have used for oxygen? Then, too, the Scripture record reports that men decided to make a "name for themselves" by building a city with a tower reaching toward the heavens. (Genesis 11:4) Their efforts were contrary to Jehovah’s previous instructions to Noah and his three married sons to spread out and fill the earth. (Genesis 9:1)

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    A lot of people don't understand why God destroyed the tower of Babel. God is not a monster he doesn't want people to have to die he doesn't want people to get hurt.

    And when your building a tower out of cut stones. With no reinforcement Steel or prefabricated concrete with reinforcement in it there will come a point where the blocks will literally crush the blocks underneath them to powder and the structure will collapse.

    You think that the Twin Towers killed a lot of people? Imagine a structure 10 times bigger with 5000 people or more inside the structure that's what God was trying to avoid he knew that the structure would collapse under its own weight when it got too high! So he confused the language and stop people from building it because he knew that people were going to kill themselves that's pretty simple to understand here for any person that knows anything about architecture at all

  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    It was under Nimrod's direction that the building of Babel and its tower began. Little by little Nimrod transformed the state of affairs into a tyranny, holding that the only way to detach men from the fear of God was by making them continuously dependent upon his own power. He threatened to have revenge on God if he wished to inundate the earth again; for he would build a tower higher than the water could reach and avenge the destruction of their forefathers. The people were eager to follow this advice deeming it slavery to submit to God, so they set out to build the tower.

    The tower was not authorized by Jehovah God. It was to bring reputation and fame to the builder, not God. God realized this would be only the beginning. It could lead to a series of ambitious power projects taking men on a course farther and farther away from the true God. God stepped in, throwing the project into confusion, confusing their speech, causing the people to disperse throughout the earth.

  • 3 years ago

    The first Heaven is the region above Earth's surface where there is air. That is where you find birds and clouds, and now, aircraft.

    The second Heaven is outer space. The third Heaven is a different Universe.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Read more carefully. The Tower of Babel could NOT reach heaven.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    The Tower of Babel COULD NOT REACH HEAVEN .. It was a foolish attempt by godless people.

    Don't get what the Babylonians THOUGHT they could do .. confused with what they could NOT do.

    Heaven is the realm or "dimension" where God is .. It's not far away ~ He is all around us.

    Aircraft already fly through and within "heaven" and we walk through "heaven" ~ as it says:

    "In Him we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28)

    We're unable to see the spiritual dimension - unless God has given us a vision of it for some

    particular purpose. Gifts of the Spirit connect His people with the heavenly power of God.

    He came into our physical world incarnate in Jesus Christ so the people could "see" God in Christ

    and witness His character and goodness in the way He lived His life. Finally He took on Himself

    the penalty for our sins, and the church of God was "purchased with His own blood." (Acts 20:28)

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    No. It's a myth

  • 3 years ago

    The Tower of Babel could not reach heaven. No one can reach heaven other than those who go there.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    The tower of Babel was just a tower or at that time the largest man make structure. But God read their hearts and saw that their intent was to reach God, which is impossible. So God confused their plan so that they could continue with His plan, spread mankind throughout the earth.

  • 3 years ago

    Genesis chapter 11 relates how people in the land of Shinar decided to defy God's command to spread out. They built a city and a tower (Babel) to resist God's will and build a godless society. The Creator was to be kept out. It was symptomatic of a culture where man considers himself to be the sole architect of his world. Ch. 11 vs 4. Society was to be brought together to strive to do its own thing and not God’s things.

    Architecture can tell you something about a society. Edinburgh has many public monuments dedicated to religious and other leaders – Livingston, Guthrie, Chalmers, Knox. But man thinks he is the master of his own destiny at Babel. It was motivated by a deep-seated insecurity. Verse 5. They wanted a name for themselves and not to be scattered. People created in God’s image need a central focus for their society to hold them together. When God is out of that, they feel a need to find something else to build around. Yet God is the integrating factor of human life. People surrounded with security feel the need for this far more than people who have no security in life. Nebuchadnezzar – he fell to bits over a dream! Yet he had amassed immense security for his government!

    In Babel, they sought the solution in advancing technology. It is the principle of advancement that is important here. Using technology is not bad, unless it increases poverty and oppression where some advance themselves at the expense of many others. Bricks instead of stone – mortar instead of mud – a new advanced way of making bricks. Fire-furnished bricks and mortar was an advancement. No problems there, and that did not alarm God. It was the role of technology, harnessed to build a new, godless society that was the issue.

    David Atkinson’s commentary on this says: “The tower and the land of Shinar is a movement of the ambitions of technological man who has lost touch with God.” They were trusting in technology for advancement and social engineering. A darkened moral society proceeds to technologically and scientifically dispense with God and has no sense of accountability to God. For example, consider the Third Reich. Babel is a prophetic warning for us but none of today's governments think that! They pride themselves in their knowledge, resources and power, and many are trusting in science and technology to 'lift them up' literally into the universe so that they can dispense with any ideas about God. Their fall is going to be very terrible, very great, and very sudden.

    This has nothing to do with literal altitude but of attempts to elevate humanity above God.

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