Sentences with phrase «building of the tower»

Nimrod, as the builder of the city of Babel, was certainly behind the building of the tower of Babel.

I realize my view is still an interpretation, but I've known of Christians that would have thought that the building of the tower didn't have anything to do with God.

One thing I also really liked about this book is how Heiser shows the numerous parallels between biblical literature and extra-biblical literature, especially in the creation story, the flood account, the building of the tower of Babel, and the various descriptions in Scripture about the abode of God.

In biblical times to know about history was to interpret human events in relation to our purpose: to see the building of the Tower as idolatry was to understand an historical event.

The first book of the Bible, Genesis, begins with the creation of the world by God.1 Stories from pre-history follow: about the fall of Main and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden; Cain's murder of his brother Abel; the flood and Noah's ark; and the building of the tower of Babel.

IAIN DUNCAN SMITH today called for an end to the building of tower blocks in Britain in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

This perennial question was famously addressed in the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel, which tells of how humans developed the conceit that they could use their shared language to cooperate in the building of a tower that would take them to heaven.