The Purpose For The Tower Of Babel It’s funny how you think about things when you’re a kid. I grew up in church and remember hearing the story of the Tower of Babel in Sunday School. I don’t think my teacher said this but I thought the people built the Tower of Babel to try to climb into heaven. I cast that belief aside when I learned one couldn’t physically climb to heaven. However some people today believe that portals exist between earth and heaven. Perhaps that’s why the tower was built? No, that isn’t why they built the Tower of ...