Apologies for the fact that I posted nothing in April. I aim to be back to the advertised publishing schedule from now, reminding myself again: done is better than perfect.
The road to Hell, so they say, is paved with good intentions. What you are trying to achieve is not the only thing that matters - how you go about it matters just as much. Almost always, our sin consists of the pursuit of things that God created as good without reference to God. Consider one of the slogans of modern Western society: diversity, equality, and inclusion. Very few could argue against those values as such, the question is how precisely they are going to be implemented. Liberté, egalité et fraternité sounded pretty good on paper, but we all could have done without the guillotine. Ends don’t always justify means, and it turns out utopia is pretty impossible to achieve anyway.
So we come to the story of the Tower of Babel. The Garden of Eden, as we saw in the previous post in this series, was a temple built by God himself upon a mountaintop. The fact that the action then moves to a plain is the perhaps the first sign that things are now a long way east of Eden. The garden has been exchanged for a city, the mountain for a plain, the temple for a tower. This is only the beginning of the problems.
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