Essay on The Holy Bible - Comparing Identity in the Tower of Babel and

Identity in the jerk of Babel and Creation Stories beau ideal recognizes that human beings are not specifically secure the moment He creates them for unlike His other creations, He does not declaim them as such. But also unlike His other creations, they are the lonesome(prenominal) ones created like something else, like God, in His image. If they are truly to exist and be good, they must give-up the ghost divide from God, as the other creations are separate and categorized. It takes some human action to get them out of the Garden of Eden--specifically, the fair sex and the man eating the fruit. Unfortunately, they cant do everything on their own. They need some rub from God, namely the flood, to distance themselves further from Him and to separate them individually, from each other. Though the peck in the Babel story do not exercise it very well, the business leader to name, to define, to separate, and to classify seems like a prodigious power, and even a privilege. To bec ome fully human men must distinguish themselves from God. When God sends the flood. He separates Himself from them by putting the world into their hands, as if to say, There you go, youre grown up now, you take care of it. The gift of the Earth should be Gods last prompt attempt at separation from then on the humans should feat to separate themselves from Him on their own. But like birds kicked out of the nest who give to climb back up the tree, they try to build the tower to nirvana and once again, God must intervene by creating even greater difference. This time He confuses their languages so they are not only polar from God but also different from each other. Both God and mortals understand the tremendous power of language and of naming. For example, at one pull down . .... ...er He changes their languages first, and they scatter themselves once they realize they cant understand one some other. The author interpretation is probably more accurate, but both(prenominal) sh ow how distance, both physical and figurative, creates difference. And in this case it is a difference that makes teamwork, and the tower which would bridge over the dislocation between earth and heaven, as well as the gap between man and God, impossible. Therefore, by being different from each other, the unlogical people of Babel grow even more different from God. Despite the problems that pinch from difference (namely conflict), it is necessary for humans to be distinct from one another because they need to obtain identity, both as a race of beings and as individuals, separate and different not only from God, but from one another. cypher Cited1 The Holy Bible, Authorized (King James) Version.