Will the Tower of Babylon ever be completed?
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My understanding about the Tower of Babel is that the people who were building it were trying to build a way to get to heaven without Jesus Christ.  Although people might not be working on a physical structure like that, there are certainly people who are living their lives focused on other things than Jesus.
11927
The Official website for the Tower leans beacuse of layers of clay and water under the Tower.  It was closed for several years in the 90s to reinforce the foundation.  It has reopened to visitors and currently appears to be stable.
768598
People have been looking for that for 2000 years or more. Nothing has been found.\n\nGeological and archeological evidence shows there WAS a big flood in the middle east, south of the Black Sea, some time between human installation and the beginning of recorded history, but nothing as world destroying as described in the bible.
424875
No, but it would be neat if it did. Reversals happen very rarely and take hundreds of years to complete.
860826
Yes! but it will not be brought about by man whom the bible says is incapable of directing his step.  Rather it will be under a theocracy; government ruled by God. Isaiah tell us that God's kingdom will crush and do away with these other kingdoms and will stand to time indefinite.  So it is truly something wonderful to look forward to.
325939
Babylon must be the oldest if going by the Bible anyway as it was from the Tower of Babel being torn down by God himself that everyone in the world is supposed to originate from
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The official list only goes up to seven:\n\n1. Great Pyramid of Giza\n2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia\n4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n5. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus\n6. Colossus of Rhodes\n7. Lighthouse of Alexandria\n\nThere are of course, many debates even about this list. Some people want to include more recent wonders, others want multiple lists (natural, underwater, modern, etc.)\n\nSo, if you are looking for the 8th wonder, it can be whatever you like friend!
913267
YES! thank you I want to know the answer to that as well...been waiting many years...
489141
More in-depth:\n\n1) Great Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt) \nthe largest of the three at 450 feet high (originally 482 when built); contains 2.3 million blocks each weighing 2.5 tons; completed 2680BC; was the highest building in the world until the 19th century; \n\n2) Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Iraq) \nbuilt around 600BC by Nebuchadnezzar to appease Queen Amuhia; Amuhia was married to Neb to form an alliance between the Babylonians and the Medians; she was homesick because Babylon was flat and dry and she was from a green mountainous region, had dimensions of 100 by 150 feet and were terraces that rose from 75 to 300 feet; had a mechanism to raise water to each of the terraces \n\n3) Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) at Olympia (Greece) \nbuilt by Phidias in 5th century BC; was placed in a temple built to honor Zeus who was the reason for the ancient olympic games (Zeus was the king of the Gods); statue was 22-feet wide and 40-feet high statue and made of ivory and gold; moved to Olympia until the olympic games were abolished by Emperor Theodosius I of Rome since he was Christian and did not believe in pagan games (since the olympics honored Zeus, a pagan God); moved to Constantinople (Turkey) after 255AD and was destroyed by fire in 462AD \n\n4) Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus (Turkey) \nbegun in 350BC and took about 60 to 120 years to complete; the temple had 36 60-foot high Ionic columns and was completely made of marble; destroyed during a raid by the Goths in 262 A.D; was not rebuilt afterwards since Christianity took hold and pagan temples were not in favor \n\n5) Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Turkey) \nbegun in 353BC; built by Queen Artemisia over grief of the death of her husband who was also her brother (common practice for royalty to wed within the family at the time)Mausolus; his name led to modern day term mausoleum for all stately tombs throughout the world; destroyed by series of earthquakes and only the foundation was left by 1404AD \n\n6) Colossus at Rhodes (Greece) \nbegun in 304BC and took 12 years to complete; bronze statue of the God Helios, who was patron God of Rhodes; built to celebrate their victory and freedom against an invasion force larger than the population of Rhodes itself; was 110 feet tall (as tall as the Statue of Liberty without the pedestal) on a 50 foot pedestal; destroyed by earthquake just 57 years after completion; peices of fallen statue laid there until 7th century AD when Arab conquerers took it apart for scrap metal; it is said it took 900 camels to take away the statue \n\n7) Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria (Egypt) \nbuilt in 290BC since the city needed a signal for its busy port; completed 20 years later; 2nd tallest building in the world at 450 feet (see wonder 1); was built on the island of Pharos; Pharos is the root word for "lighthouse" in Spanish, French, Italian, and Romanian; it was three stages with the first stage being 200 feet high, and it was possibly a tourist destination since it was one of the highest views possible on a man-made building in the ancient world and food was served at this observation level, possibly for tourists; stood for over 1,500 years, but was damaged by earthquakes in 365 and 1303AD and finally fell in 1326AD \n\nAll of these were built by 270BC and where in the Mediterranean Sea... The reason was that this list was compiled by ancient Greek historians so they all included objects/structures around the Mediterrean Sea since that was the "known" world at the time... That is why Stonehenge, Great Wall of China, and other ancient objects/structures were left off the list...
263844
Only if you find the Philopher's stone and live forever.\nThanks for two points.
76922
we will never know if it ends...it could end, but is just too huge to ever really know for a fact
390809
I don't really know but it has delayed well over half a year and that is not good enough. Even the FA Cup final had to be redirected to the Millenium because it couldn't get finished. It was supposed to end somewhere around Autumn in 2005 but you can see the time it took the stupid builders to get it done can't you? It's April now. Although it is a gigantic stadium but missions are there to but accomplished on time but these people are driving us crazy. It's a real shame. I was looking forward to the FA Cup final before they riuned my hopes.\n\nOh and by the way please please please choose me for the best answer, thanks.
124498
not yet, still working on it. I will tell you in 60 years by then I will know
830838
Certainly. Most of it is history that has been recorded elsewhere, just told from a number of perspectives.\n\nIt deals with people known to have existed and things that they are known to have done.\n\nHowever none of the supernatural occurrences have been supported except one. That is the destruction of the Tower of Babel. There is a ruin that fits some of that story in that its destruction shows evidence of the release of a great deal of power of some kind. In Iraq if Saddam didn't tear it apart.
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Searching for the Ark\n\nSince the 19th century, there have been numerous attempts to find the ark on the mountains of Ararat. These mountains have two prominent peaks, one 16,950 feet high and the other 12,840 feet. The higher of the two is perpetually covered by snow. Because of the climatic changes that followed the Flood, the ark would soon have been buried by snow. Some investigators firmly believe that the ark is still there, buried deep in a glacier. They claim that there have been periods when the ice melted sufficiently to permit part of the ark to be exposed temporarily.\n\nThe book In Search of Noah’s Ark quotes George Hagopian, an Armenian, who claimed that he climbed Mount Ararat and saw the ark in 1902 and again in 1904. On the first visit, he said, he actually climbed on top of the ark. “I stood up straight and looked all over the ship. It was long. The height was about forty feet [12 m].” Regarding his observation on his subsequent visit, he said: “I didn’t see any real curves. It was unlike any other boat I have ever seen. It looked more like a flat-bottomed barge.”\n\nFrom 1952 to 1969, Fernand Navarra made four efforts to find evidence of the ark. On his third trip to Mount Ararat, he worked his way to the bottom of a crevasse in a glacier, where he found a piece of black wood embedded in the ice. “It must have been very long,” he said, “and perhaps still attached to other parts of the ship’s framework. I could only cut along the grain until I split off a piece about five feet [1.5 m] long.”\n\nProfessor Richard Bliss, one of several experts who examined the wood, said: “The Navarra wood sample is a structural beam and impregnated with bituminous pitch. It has mortise and tenon joints. And it’s definitely hand-hewn and squared.” The estimated age of the wood was set at about four or five thousand years.\n\nAlthough efforts have been made to find the ark on Mount Ararat, the definite proof that it was used to survive a cataclysmic deluge exists in the written record of that event in the Bible book of Genesis. \n\nThe ark had a carrying capacity equal to that of 10 freight trains of about 25 American boxcars each!
614932
Nope. On the Rock of the Word is where my foundation is planted. Winds of fiction will come and go--always have, always will. But the Bible continues on as the Word of God.
95007
It is said that the people who tried to build it wanted it to be as high as the sky is so that they could reach god.\nBut god punished them before they finished it. We don't know how tall it was because we don't know where it is and we don't know if that story is true at all.