Tower of Babel

Tower of Babel

I don't think that the destruction of the tower of Babel was a bad idea... after all, well, next to telling the Israelites to kill all the Canaanites, it was a peach.

A Friend said to me that he wished there was a Christ centered meeting in which New York where he could worship. Now being a rather literal fellow, I will likely be corrected on the exact words... well, yes and so I should be. I, however, think that the Tower of Babel is important to consider here.

All these posts before this about the difference between anything and our abstractions, from the image of it in our senses to the words we use to describe it. Well, that is the Tower of Babel all over. The lesson is that we are not meant to worship in the same language of God, it is part of human existence to each have a unique language in our perception. What God demands of us, is to accept and understand that in order to build, to work, to worship together, we need to go past the language that divides us, and thereby build the Tower to heaven.

I think it is better to worship in a diverse community. It teaches us to deal with the world as it was created by God. If diversity was not the intention of God, fascism would work. A society could destroy everyone who was not of the political orthodoxy and live in a Utopia. But, as we know, the remaining few would come to a different interpretation the next day and the killing would go on forever. What hubris on the part of any endeavor of humanity to believe that one could be so right, that everyone would worship or govern in the same way. It is like being so sure that one tree is the perfect strain, that one would kill off all the other plants in a forest and plant only one kind of tree. What a disaster.

The diversity after Babel is God's plan. I, for one, will try and get with the program.

Thyne

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