While in college, I had a professor that taught us to analysis why God did some of the things he did. One of the challenges that has stuck with me is the tower of Babel. Stay with my thought pattern for a few moments.
Remember how Adam and Eve were booted from the Garden of Eden. They were commanded by God that they would have to work by the sweat of their brow - Physical Labor. There we have Noah and his sons building the ark but you know that story. So now years later Noah’s sons had moved to the land of Shinar and settled down. Genesis 11:1 begins that they all spoke one language. Common in thought and mind.
They said they wanted to build a city and a tower that would reach the heavens and so they began. It is in verse 6 & 7 that it gets interesting. “God took one look and said, “One people, one language, why this is only the beginning. No telling what they’ll come up with next –they’ll stop at nothing.”
What’s the problem? When God stopped the building of the tower it was estimated to be less than 80 feet talk. We know today that we can build skyscrapers over 100 stories high and there is not a problem that God has to confuse our language more now than like he did in Shinar. Dream with me a minute.
Men and women had ALL their brain capacities at that time. We only use about 25-30% today. It is speculated that with 100% of our brain’s capacity they could move objects and do other wondrous things. The speculation was that the people discovered that if they banded together they could sit in groups and make bricks, mortar, while others could move them into place with their unified minds. In fact they said, “let’s make ourselves famous so we won’t be scattered here and there.” That was in direct disobedience of God.
So. . . In confusing their languages, they could no longer communicate at any level and could not use their full brain power. Wars have started because of poor communication so the people had to do something different. The building of the tower and the city stopped and in verse 9 it says, “Then God scattered them from there all over the world.” Once again they had to labor for what they received and God’s world was back in order.
Dreaming for what might have happened has taken me to so many occurrences and happenings in the Bible.
My list of questions as to why God did some of things he did in the Bible will just have to wait until I get to see Him face to face. But then again, I probably won’t care.
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