to further deflect the discussion Nimrod was a mighty king of that time who is sometimes credited with starting the tower. no man can bend the bow of nimrod, we are told (see oddyseus), but somehow in my lifetime nimrod has come to be synonymous with incompetent fool. also i reckon the whole point of the babel story is that god felt threatened by a humanity working together speaking a single langauge, so taking care of that was his main effort and knocking down the tower was just Him being a prick.
Wasn’t the sky just a metal dome a few miles up and thus literally reachable?
It used to be before God got scared and removed it from beyond the earth. He was afraid that man would steal his best Tuna.
Pfft. I’ve successfully taught it to infants; it can’t be that hard.
Do you have a cite that you were able to teach it to a child? I mean, the obvious evidence seems to indicate that it’s not possible…after all, we haven’t built any space ships to take people to Mars, after all…
-XT
Well, it’s obvious nothing like that will happen again, because we all speak different languages now, and it’s simply impossible to understand each other.
What?
It’s because of Bugs Bunny. He used to call Elmer Fudd “nimrod” sarcastically, because Nimrod was known as a great hunter. Over the next few decades, people started picking up the term primarily from the cartoons, instead of the Bible, and assumed from the context that it was just another generic term of abuse.
In regards to the Babel story, is it mean to have taken place before or after the flood? If it was antediluvean, maybe God was worried everyone would drown when they got to the top of the tower.
It sounds like a word for a penis. That’s what I assumed it was when I was 8.
After.
Well, so much for that theory.
Think about it; if it had taken place before the Flood, the only survivors being Noah and his family would have all spoken the same language.
Is this correct or a wild-ass guess? I’ve always wondered how Nimrod came to mean idiot.