Bible Question: I came across a situation where I had to write a paper on Christ in the OT. One of the scriptures under inspection for the general reading was Genesis 11:1-8 the story of the tower of Babel (don't ask me how this had to with Christ in the OT, cause I honestly don't know). The professor gave the verses but wrote his own version of the story with the people being oppressed by the rulers of Babel to build the tower and having many languages and then a commond language, intsead of one common langauge in all the earth. He did have God confuse the one language at the end of his version. There were other things in the paper. I wrote citing the actual verses in full that there was no oppression, the people as one got together and built the tower and there was one common language in all the earth. I got and A on the paper, but he wrote and I quote,"I took liberty to do some deducing, but the Bible doesn't contradict it". Did I miss something in the text? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Tamara... Christ, is, indeed, on every page of Scripture. He is the Word incarnate! I've not heard that particular spin on the Tower of Babel. Josephus continues with "they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water." In other words, they built this tall, water-proof tower as a place to flee, if God should bring judgment upon them as He had done in the deluge. Isn't that so like man? We tend to think so highly of ourselves that we even imagine we can thwart the hand of God! How childish we are! I've got to hit the sack, I'm afraid... but if you look up John Piper's sermon on the Tower of Babel (www.desiringgod.org), I think you will find it a blessing... and you'll see how Christ fits into the picture, too! In Him, Doc "On every page of the Bible I behold nothing but the cross, and its amazing retinue of suffering and glory. For me, patriarch and prophet and apostle all utter one voice, all point to Calvary, and cry, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world! As a minister, as a sinner, I have no theme, no hope, but Christ Jesus and Him crucified. On Him and Him alone, on the redundant merit of His atonement, my soul leans with a recumbency, a confidence, a delight unspeakable and full of glory." --Richard Fuller |