Tag: Genesis 11
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Is the Tower of Babel wobbling?
Christian Century: Is the Tower of Babel wobbling? The unfinished Tower of Babel has stood for centuries in art, literature and biblical commentaries as an outrageous, heaven-reaching challenge to the God of Genesis, who responded by scrambling the common language of the citizens and dispersing them around the world. The brief account has nearly always…
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Going West
Gen 11:31-12:7 NRSV 11:31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah…
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Church of Babel
Our English word "Church" comes from the Greek word ecclesia, which means "the gathered." Genesis 11:1-9 talks about another ecclesia or gathering—the church of Babel. Gen 11:1-9 NRSV 1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east,* they came upon a plain in the…