Tower of Babel

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According to a story in Genesis Chapter 11, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity in order to reach the heavens. To prevent the project from succeeding, God confused their languages so that each spoke a different language and the work could not proceed. After that time, people moved away to different parts of the earth. The story is used to explain the existence of many different languages and races.


Some think that this story is used by Bob Jones University to justify their rule not allowing interracial dating or marriage. The rationale is that God still doesn't want the races to mix.


In the theology of the Unification Church, the confusion of languages that began at the Tower of Babel will be resolved when the kingdom of heaven appears on earth. All mankind will speak one Universal language, that is, Korean.


See also Babel Fish.


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