The Tower of Babel - Jonathan Tungate

The Tower of Babel

This story is about the people of the earth, and they all have the same language and are in the same area. Being so united, they can work together easily and they begin to make a city out of bricks and tar. They want to be recognizable, so they decide to build a giant tower to reach the heavens. God didn't like this, however, because if the people could build a giant tower, they could do anything. So God scattered the people across the entire world, and gave them all different languages so they could not longer communicate. The city and tower were never finished, and called Babel, which means confused.
If I were to learn a new language, I would learn an ancient language. Something like Greek, where I would be able to read old texts, and learn about things from that time. History is very interesting to me, and I love learning where we came from. Lot's of choices people have made in the past have led to us being where we are now, this translates to the decisions we make now, are going to have a huge impact on the generations of the future. Some time down the line, some people might be looking in the history books at our culture, remarking on how different it is than theirs, and how bizarre our current speech is.  It's one thing to learn about another culture, but it is another to read it, as reading it puts you inside the culture of that time. You can gain an understanding you wouldn't be able to having not learned about the culture in their language. This is something I consider very valuable.




"The Tower of Babel." Bible Gateway. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 11:1-9>.