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Angry Dragon

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Sun Oct 15, 2017, 07:43 PM Oct 2017

Tower of Bable [View all]

Gen 11:1  And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 
Gen 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. 
Gen 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. 
Gen 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. 
Gen 11:5  And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 
Gen 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. 
Gen 11   Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 
Gen 11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 
Gen 11   Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 

So much for free will
If this god is all knowing then why does this come as a shock to him??
It seems this god is interfering in the progress of the people he says he loves

Here endth today's lesson

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Tower of Bable [View all] Angry Dragon Oct 2017 OP
People do have freewill but that doesnt mean god cant inject anything he wants Fullduplexxx Oct 2017 #1
then it is just freewill with conditions Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #2
People still have free will even if god calls an audible Fullduplexxx Oct 2017 #4
what is your definition of freewill?? Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #6
It doesnt mattet that you didnt say anything about hardships that was in response to god's love Fullduplexxx Oct 2017 #8
WHO says god has to be allowed?? Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #10
"WHO says god has to be allowed??" Not sure how to even respond to that Fullduplexxx Oct 2017 #25
post #8 read to me as you saying god needs to be allowed Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #27
Another Biblical literalist? guillaumeb Oct 2017 #3
so it sounds like the writers just said it was god when it was really man that developed languages Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #5
"god inspired the Bible" left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #9
I never said that Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #11
My apologies left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #15
that is okay ................ Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #17
To keep their people in line left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #19
So if one story from the book is a Bronze-Age fairy tale invented to explain the unknown... Pope George Ringo II Oct 2017 #7
he is just caught in circle reasoning Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #12
True. Pope George Ringo II Oct 2017 #14
Taking the next step ... Mariana Oct 2017 #21
That's not really the next step. Pope George Ringo II Oct 2017 #23
Hey, you're forgetting something. trotsky Oct 2017 #24
Exactly Cuthbert Allgood Oct 2017 #18
A bronze age FABLE, not an explanation. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #20
Do you take any of the bible literally, g? trotsky Oct 2017 #22
Straw man. Igel Oct 2017 #13
I ask of you to give me a definition of free will?? .. ......... not what it is not Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #16
These old stories are interesting and admit multiple readings struggle4progress Oct 2017 #26
If I read your post as you meant it to read Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #28
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