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[dupodong]

what's the initial intent of God to devise such a lot of various languages on earth?
without a proper understanding of the language of a nation, we could not say that we understand this nation very well.
so the first thing above all to understand a nation is to learn its language.
so here comes my question,
Why God created kinds of languages on earth?
and if i cannot speak a litte english, i could even not put this question here for your consideration.
and the main distinction between men and animal and plant and stone is mankind has its own language.
then why God didnot creat a language system for animal?
therefore language is a key to understanding human being's existence.

and in the Genesis, God confounded the language of the people, as the followings,
“And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”
-------Genesis 11:6-9
why God confounded the language of the people?
why babel failed to build up?
what's the initial purpose to build this Babel?

and why it is a bad thing to say in a same tone?

and after the time of Babel, an art called translation came out upon this planet.
and what's the intent behind the translation? to know God's words? but it seems that God did not like us to understand him, for he confounded the language and scattered people above the suface of the earth.

why God so hate people have one language?

and the world built by the language is not the real world but a imaginative world composed by men's vain imagination.
if the world we live is but an illusion, how can we say we are living?
and who is the illusion weaver?
and what's the function of the language? quarrelling against each other more effectively in an more eloquent way?lol~~~
why creat God languages on earth?
and the war is always intrigued by the bad use of language, and hatred is but another form of misunderstandinig.
if we can understand one another very well, how can we fight against one another brutely?
and it seems that each nation has its own God, for they hate their foe's God, and the same, their enemy also detest theirs' God, and if God is one, how could they fight against each other?
but in reality, they understand not the God of their foe's, nor their own.
for if they know their own's God very well, they will understand that the God they believe in is the same God in whom their enemy take trust.

so what i want to know is if they speak the same language very well, they can understand each other very well, and then the strife could be ceased very well.
but why God want not people understand each other very well?

and now english extend itself to almost each corner of the world.
yet still the strifes are every-where?

it seems that the common use of english still can not save people from their troubles.

and some people supposed that the universal use of english language is just another plot for building another babel, for cheating the people eternally.
what's your consideration?


sorry for my confused questions.
hope to hear some original opinions~~

cheers~~
tons of thanks in advance`

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Edited by dupodong, 10 August 2006 - 07:22 AM.

[Flappie]

The people used the language, the city and the tower to grow a civilisation apart from God. Together we're strong, we don't need God. It's that attitude that God didn't like, and that's why they were scattered.