Babel - Just Another Fable

 Do you think God was nervous that people were going to take over His power?

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 

But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Genesis 11:4-7

You might think that God was afraid of the people's power from these verses, but the decision to build a "tower that reaches to the heavens, so that they might make a name for themselves," was a direct act of rebellion. 

A stubborn - we can do it ourselves without God if we just work together attitude. 

Hmm . . . sounds like 21st Century techno global unity talk.

How foolish we can be. We were created for a relationship with the Living God of the universe, and yet how quickly and easily we will push Him aside with our childish - "I can do it myself" attitude.  

We are a stubborn and pride-filled people. 

We know the account well. What did God do with these foolish rebellious people in Babylon?

So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:8-9

He alone is God. He will not share His glory or His position. There is no other like Him. 

What about the fact that similar accounts are referenced in most world religions?

Many individuals will use that as a reason to believe that it is all just mythology and story telling. 

This is just a personal thought, but I wonder if it is at all possible that this moment of language confusion and population scattering was simply the beginning of different people in different places sharing the same memories of the same event. 

Have you ever noticed how a dozen different people can all experience the same moment and remember certain similarities but change the details? Ask a dozen witnesses to describe a traumatic event, and although there will be things in common there will also be many differences. 

So, it doesn't surprise me that other religions share accounts of Creation, the Flood, or the Tower of Babel . . . for me that fact adds validity to the Book of Genesis.

Because I believe the Bible stands alone as the Word of God. Why? Because the Bible alone offers a one of a kind, unique relationship with a personal God. The Bible stands alone in the consistent message of:

• God coming to man.
• God loving man.
• Salvation through grace found in a Savior, rather than through personal pursuit of God through acts of self-righteousness.
• Prophecy perfectly fulfilled.
• Disciples and Christ followers willing to sacrifice everything including their lives after seeing the risen Son of God. 
• A generation after generation ability to change lives. 
• What would you add?

There are some who think that people who believe in actual Biblical accounts are naive and foolish, but I will forever stand on Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 1:22-25:

Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

What do you think?

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