When I began to read chapter 11 of the King James Bible, I read about a story I had heard a long time ago. I read about the Babel Tower. This story was about when some humans decided to build a very tall and powerful tower. But God found this construction as a threat from the humans. God began to see the humans as a threat, as a challenge. So he decided that they needed to be punished. Humans used to speak one language, they all used to comunicate, they used to be one. But Lord God's punishment changed this. "[7] Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (Genesis 11, verse 7).
After God decided to punish the human kind, all of the humans were very confused. They couldn't comunicate with anyone and no one could understand them. There were misunderstandings and great confusions. Unfourtunetly, this is something that has happened throughout time and hasn't change. Still, in the world now, in our "modern" societies we kind of live very separetly. We don't understand anyone but our own people, people from our own culture. But with people from different parts of the world, from other religions, cultures or societies, we really don't understand them. We say we do, but we don't.
For example all the fights, wars and conflicts between countries are due to misunderstandings. Because we are separated due to different believes and ways we see things, there are many problems in the world. If we weren't separated because of our believes, the world will be a better place, a peaceful one. After I finished reading this story I asked myself: If God hadn't seen humans as a threat, will we still be one whole?
martes, 14 de octubre de 2008
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