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How Did
the Tower of Babel Look?
The simple answer is that
the Bible does not tell us. All
we know is that God intervened before the construction
project was completed. Studying
the oldest buildings from the area, archaeologists
assume the Tower at Babel looked like a ziggurat.
But we cannot
just study later buildings and calculate backward.
The people at Babel had
a unique opportunity. The
incredible engineering skills of all mankind were
together in one place. But
when God split them up, each family took their talents
with them. It would appear that
the later founders of Babylon and Egypt lacked the
expertise of their forefathers.
We can only imagine what
their original plans looked like. Perhaps
they designed an enormous city that would require
a very long to complete.
Considering how long their
ancestors lived before the Flood, they probably
expected to live several hundred
years.
It is
also possible that they had unique construction
materials available after the Flood. Thick
layers of lime and other sediments may not have
hardened. Perhaps these
materials could be formed into bricks as strong as
the concrete blocks we make
today.
Here is another thought.
If the plans at Babel were so majestic, why do we
not find any remains today? It
seems likely that God frustrated their work in the early
stages, while they were still laying out the city and
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Is Man Destroying the
Earth?
It is
undoubtedly true that scientists have developed all sorts of deadly
weapons that could wreak havoc on this earth. However, there
is something we should
always keep in mind. No
matter what man tries to do, God is
always in total control.
The Bible tells us that the earth will be
destroyed one day. 2 Peter 3:10-13
tells us:
But the
day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things
shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all
holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting to the
coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. KJV ER
But this is
not a description of man destroying
himself with nuclear weapons, but a
description of the final judgment by God on this planet.
Just as God judged the wickedness of man
in the days of Noah with a global judgment of water,
and at the Tower of Babel with confusion, so too He
will judge again, the next time by fire.
Because so many people have rejected the
truth of God’s Word, and the fact of
His creation, they are more fearful of what
man can do, and their
gloomy predictions of the future. Instead,
they should be fearing the coming judgment of our Creator and Redeemer,
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Flood
Legends From Around the World
In Genesis 6 and Numbers 13, which cover
the pre-Flood and post-Flood times list the term “Nephilim”, which has
been the center of discussion for many years. At this point, the
identity of the Nephilim and the sons of God is still being debated in
Christian circles. There is a popular unbiblical view that the Nephilim
are space aliens. Of course, most creationists rightly reject this
particular view for multiple reasons.
Of the views with some biblical support,
some believe that fallen angels bred with women and resulted in giants
called Nephilim. Some believe the sons of God were the result of fallen
angels who overtook ungodly men to breed with women.
Some believe they were the Sethites,
descendants of Seth, the son of Adam. There are some minor views as
well, such as kings, rulers, or heads of leading family groups as being
godly from Psalm 82. This view has many similarities to the Sethite
view but eliminates many of Seth’s descendants and merely keeps with the
leaders/kings, as well as some other leaders of other tribes, as godly.
Another variation of the Sethite view is that these godly men had
relations with ungodly women, and the offspring followed after other
“gods” as opposed to God, and “fell away” in tremendous ways. This is
called the “fallen men” view.
There is a great deal of confusion over
the word Nephilim. No one today really knows what it means. It
is related to the verb series “to fall” (naphal) in Hebrew, which
is why some direct this to fallen angels or more appropriately, their
offspring. However, this also gives strong support to the view that
men had fallen away from God. It was these two concepts that helped
give rise to the various views mentioned above.
Many have associated the Nephilim with
giants. The King James Version translates it as giants from the
influence of the Latin Vulgate. There may have been some influence on
the Latin Vulgate by the Septuagint’s (Greek translation of the Old
Testament about 200–300 years before Christ) use of Greek word
gigentes.
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Evolutionist Quote of the
Month
"Atheism is science’s natural ally. Atheism is the philosophy, both
moral and ethical, most perfectly suited for a scientific civilization.
If we work for the American Atheists
today, Atheism will be ready to fill the void of Christianity’s demise
when science and evolution triumph. Without a doubt humans and
civilization are in sore need of the intellectual cleanness and mental
health of atheism.”
"Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the
desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and
finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made
necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the
original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the
son of god. Take away the meaning of his
death. If Jesus was not the redeemer who
died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity
is nothing!"
Bozarth, G. Richard, "The Meaning
of Evolution," American Atheist (February 1978), page 30.
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Until
the next time! Enjoy
every second that
God has given you.
For indeed it is a blessing. |