Spiritual significance of the tower of babel?

Answer 1

Since God had confused the people by mixing up all the languages, simply "babel" is something a baby would say and you wouldn't understand it. So the Tower of Babel means the Tower with confusing tongues and lossage of human unity.

Answer 2

The Tower of Babel symbolizes humanity's pride and desire for power, leading to their downfall in the biblical story. It serves as a warning against arrogance and a reminder of the consequences of defying divine will. The story encourages humility and the importance of respecting God's authority.

Answer 3

Genesis 11:4 They now said: "Come on! Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, for fear we may be scattered over all the surface of the earth."

• By saying this, they planned on restricting the human race to that general area. To the point that they themselves would reach the heavens. However, they had been commanded this:
  

Genesis 9:1 And God went on to bless Noah and his sons and to say to them: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.

Genesis 11:5 And Jehovah proceeded to go down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. 6 After that Jehovah said: "Look! They are one people and there is one language for them all, and this is what they start to do. Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them. 7 Come now! Let us go down and there confuse their language that they may not listen to one another's language." 8 Accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city

• Grand lesson being that whatever Jehovah purposes, He Causes To Become!
  

Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in the heart of a man, but the counsel of Jehovah is what will stand.

Answer 4

The reason wy they built it was to reach God. He didn't want them wasting their time because nobody can reach heaven by building towers otherwise we would have found it in one of our planes or something

Answer 5

Men were trying to build a tower to heaven. God made it so they couldn't understand each other, thus giving a theory of why we speak different languages. By doing so, God halted the progress of the tower and showed us that trying to achieve feats outside of our power is useless and a waste of time. Also, The Bible says belief in God should revolve around faith.

Answer 6

There are several major themes in the Tower of Babel Story. The foremost is that humans are not supposed to ascend to God in a physical manner. Becoming holy is an act that is done on a spiritual level. Secondly, hubris towards the Divine will be punished. Thirdly, in order for people to be able to come together for one purpose, they must suspend the problems of language so that this can be achieved.

Answer 7

The Tower of Babel was a product of the evil of religion that convinces people that they can get to heaven on their own accord (by their own works).