A tower to heaven? it'll cost......

Genesis Chapter 10

There appear to be a number of chapters in the Bible that are genealogical records and can be summed up as “Begat”, 'and Thingummy begat wotsisname.' 

I personally find these chapters rather dull and reasonably pointless – however if this chapter means something to you – that’s great. feel free to comment if you find something that excites you!

I can't leave the blog here it is just far too short - what I will do is lump these sort of chapters together until I find something exciting (to me at least)

Genesis Chapter 11

It appears that God is not too keen on architects who plan to show him who is who.

Experts tell that the tower of Babel is the first building that used man made bricks and bitumen for mortar.

Ironic people tell that Mankind built a tower to reach up to God, but God heads down to earth to check out what mankind is up to. 

He gets revenge by making the French, Germans etc……….

One thing I would like to know - did a builders estimate back then bear any relation to the actual cost of the tower of Babel?

One thing I really admire that is inspired by this story is how Douglas Adams uses the babel fish in the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

In the book the babel fish works by reading speech patterns and excreting telepathically a matrix derived from the conscious speech centres of the brain – the upshot is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything spoken in any language.

Douglas Adams (a well known atheist) then uses this to prove that God does not exist.

“I refuse to prove that I exist” Says God, “for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing”

“Ah” replies man, “what about the Babel fish, (nothing so mind bogglingly useful could evolve purely by chance) it is a dead give away, it proves you exist and so therefore you don’t Q.E.D.”

“Oh dear” says God and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Man then proves that black is white and gets knocked down at the zebra crossing.

People say that many wars are caused by lack of communication, but according to Douglas Adams, by removing all barriers to effective communication, the Babel fish has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in creation!

The rest of the chapter is a bit more begetting up to one of the main characters for the next several chapters – please imagine dramatic introduction type music and a drum roll for the founder of 3 major world religions, Abram - or as we know him better, Abraham.