http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurons

“The human brain has a huge number of synapses. Each of the 1010 (ten billion) neurons <ref. <Blinkov, S.M. and Glezer, I.I. The Human Brain in Figures and Tables. A Quantitative Handbook, New York: Plenum Press, 1968)has on average 7,000 synaptic connections to other neurons. It has been estimated that the brain of a three-year-old child has about 1015 synapses (1 quadrillion). This number declines with age, stabilizing by adulthood. Estimates vary for an adult, ranging from 1014 to 5 x 1014 synapses (100 to 500 trillion)."

So can we both agree there might be some kind of ‘unifying’ ‘aspect’ of what we all are as human beings (we termed a ‘holy spirit’)? that perhaps science has not yet managed to dissect, detect and quantify – or do you have a ’suspect’ in mind??

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It would seem to me that the “common language” of God would be the one “spoken” through the Holy Spirit Christ Followers believe is within them.

Although believers all over the word speak many different languages with their mouths, they all hear in the same tongue when they listen to their Holy Spirit. That is their common language

Too often the words that come out of their mouths, perhaps reflecting their egos more than their Spirit, create barriers, and conflicts.

Pentecost is a Christian festival that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit, as promised to the Apostles by the Risen Christ, upon them after 49 days (seven weeks of ‘waiting’ from the moment they last ’saw’ Christ in their midst.

A gift of the Spirit is the speaking in ‘tongues’ and also the ability to interpret this ‘gift’.

Paul in the Book of Acts describes how, after the Holy Spirit was received by the Apostles, they were able to speak in tongues and that everyone present heard the Apostles speak ‘in their own language’ even though they came from many different places in the world.

Reading Genesis 11 and Acts 2 there is a clear difference but with a common ‘understanding’…

In Genesis all men spoke with one language (since they were all descendents of Noah and his family) they determined to build one City and cause a ‘tower’ be built that would allow them to reach up to heaven so as to stay ‘in contact’ with God and all would need to stay close to the city if they wished to have ‘official’ contact with their God.

God came and saw what man had planned and saw that they were more interested in doing things their way (the way of a physical connection to heaven and God) than doing what God has asked them to do through Adam.

He knew that if man was allowed to remain in this way of thinking rather than do as He told them (to go forth and multiply and cover the face of the earth – which by building one place that was to be a ‘way’ to God through a physical ‘connection’ to heaven and an ignoring of God’s Word/plan for mankind, would not be following Him Truly) The Lord decided to confound the plan of ‘mankind’ by making it difficult for them to co-operate in a physical way and caused them to be scattered abroad throughout the whole earth – which was directly destroying the intent of mankind who thought it best to stay in one place and build the ‘tower’.

In Acts however, the Apostles listened to the word of God (through His Risen Son) and stayed put until the Holy Spirit was present with them all, then men from all the various nations came to them and heard them speak in their own language, even though the Apostles were known to be men of Galillee who only spoke the local language.

It was the gift of the Holy Spirit (and not of mans’ own devisement/initiation) that caused this ‘miracle’ of all men having a common understanding, despite physically speaking many different languages.

The ‘moral’ of these two books’ chapters is very clear (to me) – listen to God first and do not try to follow man’s (your own) way (believing in/listening to the ‘physical’ creations of man’s mind ‘over’ His) but listen to God and accept the Holy Spirit within us first and foremost.

That is the ‘way’ to develop a perfect understanding and ‘common’ language.

I do not believe that many people within any one religion have managed to place God First over their own prejudiced way of acting and thinking. and hence the reason ‘religion’ has seemingly ‘failed’ in achieving a common understanding so far.

I remain hopeful that when we are Truly ‘lead by the Spirit’ and not by selfish self-interests we can begin to ‘man’ifest the perfection of God’s Plan.

at least that’s how i see it

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But during Pentecost, didn’t the Holy Spirit move through the Apostles and allow them to speak one common language so that everyone could understand them?

I could be wrong, I haven’t read over the bible in quite some time.

I also don’t see where being able to speak more than one language is ever a bad thing.

The issue in American schools is should all students be required to lean another language beside English.

I suspect to answer to that for many parents is “when hell freezes over”.

My understanding is that the problem God had with the Tower Of Babel was that it built to demonstrate the glory of mankind. To worship man above God. I don’t see where if the now scattered “tribes” of people all learned to speak one common language, that this is an expression of man’s pride. It would seem to me to be more prideful for a person who lives in a country where their native tongue is not the language of government, but they refuse to learn that official language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel

“the Tower of Babel was not built for the worship and praise of God, but was dedicated to the glory of man, with a motive of making 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). God, seeing what the people were doing, came down and confounded their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth. It had been God’s original purpose for mankind to grow and fill the earth.”

Since mankind is already scattered around the globe then this could be thought of as evidencing God’s “original purpose”.

Do you, or anyone else who wishes to comment, think that it is against your God’s will for all of mankind to learn to speak one language? That it was God’s intent that all these scattered groups of people speak their own specific language?

I’d say it falls in line pretty well with what we’ve been talking about

My opinions are based on the secondhand news reports in the International sources I read, WorldPress.org, the online editions of the French Le Monde, the British Guardian, and the Christian Science Monitor.

I think the rest of the world knows as little about Americans as we know about them. It seems to me however, that Europeans, and their former colonies, have a better overall knowledge of world events, then the other nations of the world.

As far as understanding other cultures, we in the US didn’t learn anything, as far as I can tell, from WWI or WWII, and either the Korean or Viet Nam conflicts. Our government completely miscalculated the events, and cost, of both ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is in our own best interest to develop a much greater interest in the people, and cultures, that live outside our shores, other than when we go to war.

I think I may have strayed way off topic into rant about war and politics. I should stop here.