The story of the city of Babel is recorded in Genesis 11: 1-9. Apparently at that time of Babel everyone on earth spoke the same language. They got together and decided to build a city and a tower into the sky to reach God. That is the story I remember from Sunday school.
Recently looking up the Tower of Babel – apparently the story is a bit different. God came down to look at the city and tower, remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. So God confounded their speech, so that they could no longer understand each other and then scattered them over the face of the earth. Doesn’t seem very nice.
Ok, I know God works in mysterious ways—but I think we could really gain some ground on world peace if we all spoke the same language. I don’t want to get into a biblical discussion about this, not really the point. But the Old Testament God is way meaner than the New Testament God.—just saying.
I was given this mug with the saying “ The higher the heel —the closer to God’ by a friend, its fun. They know I wear skyscraper shoes – so this is my tallest pair- just shy of 6 inches. I will now refer to them as my heavenly shoes.
I’m more of a believer that God is all around us, maybe not an omnipresence in all things at all times, but more of that concept than way up in the sky somewhere. But again—your deity can be anywhere you like—I just think whoever they are for you—regardless of beliefs– they would like us all to be a bit nicer to each other. “Do unto others… “ you know the rest? Be nice—it matters. Sunday school is over.
Laura
