12-12-2009, 12:03 PM
goodintentions Wrote:Not quite Danno - read the story... the Tower of Babel was not built for the worship and praise of God, but was instead dedicated to the glory of man, to "make a name" for the builders: "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:4). Some believe that a vengeful God, seeing what the people were doing, came down and confused their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth.Exactly my point. However based in myth it may be, the God of the book we know as the Old Testament was the responsible for the creation of all the different languages. What don't I get? I said nor meant anything in the context of worship and praise of god or man. My point was to show wths74 that the root cause of his/her concern, about a mass being said in a different language other than english, may be due to actions by his/her own god.
So says Wikipedia...the various languages seems not to be a good thing... :o