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Contributed by Phil Spadaro
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Thursday, 29 December 2005 |
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Page 1 of 3  What are we building
5 But the LORD came down to
see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 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. 7 Come,
let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand
each other." 8 So the LORD scattered them
from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9
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. Unity
is powerful. From man’s beginnings he has realized the need for
coordination in order to accomplish great things. I can not recollect
any great monuments to anarchists. Only cultures with teamwork have
lasting structures and ideologies. Without a spiritual element, unity
is powerful. With a spiritual impetus, unity is unstoppable. Genesis 11
is an example of unity without God. Verse 4 is the first clue of hearts gone awry, “…so that we may make a name for ourselves…”
The motivation for making the tower was its doom. Men desired to be
recognized and praised. In the Restoration Movement, some have
attempted to attract people to their personal Tower of Babel. Two
examples of this are large congregations and (artificially) distinctive
dogma. |
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