Comments on: Tower of Babel

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:58:53 +0000

Or unless you sent some time studying it in context.

By: hill smith

hill smith — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:23:21 +0000

The Bible says what it says, giving no particular reason as to why God wouldn’t want one tongue or as a result of one tongue, the ability to accomplish all plans. It would seem to me if one were supposed to “interpret” the story that the first impulse would be to interpret it from a childlike point of view. That is, God must be jealous or threatened. The next instinctive answer might be that God doesn’t want accomplishments from a group level. Perhaps God wants individual progress not systematic hive like mentalities. At no time, unless planted previously in my head, would I have leaped to pride as an interpretation of the story.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:51:36 +0000

Jennifer, when I was given “Tower of Babel” to teach from, I was amazed that pride was the fall of man here. Just like in the Garden, just like… well, in everything. It’s the one sin that says, “I don’t need God.”

By: Jennifer in OR

Jennifer in OR — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:39:32 +0000

That pride. It’ll kill you. I’m learning, slowly, about the real cause of my communication problems with certain people close to me. Guess what? It’s not all their fault! You are so right, I need to have excellent communication with God *first* and then allow His Holy Spirit to intervene in my relationship with others.

By: Parableman

Parableman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

says, “When we are so focused on building little monuments to ourselves, we can’t see the big picture. God’s picture. Communicate with Him first and do His will, and then communications with others is far better.” See hisTower of Babel, a study of Genesis 11. Don Bosch at The Evangelical Ecologist says: “Iâ€™m a big fan of Touchstoneâ€™s blog and the posts of senior editor S. M. Hutchens in particular. A very deep guy. Thatâ€™s why I was intrigued when I found (while googling