The Tower of Babel

This is a subject that came up in my therapy session the other day. I want to take a look at this story from Genesis and see how it relates to us today.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. Genesis 11:1-2 NIV

Those verses seem to have no inner meaning, but understand that the hold world spoke on language. Makes sense since Adam and Eve started the human race we should all speak on language.

They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." Genesis 11:3-4 NIV

Now the Verse three talks about building materials. Verse four is where it gets interesting. Why did they want to build a tower to the heavens? The answer can be found with further study. The tower was created for reasons of, pride and rebellion against God.

Now, keep in mind that the Lord built the earth for this reason:
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." Genesis 1:26 NIV

The Lord did not want us to come together in this way, but to rule over all the earth.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." Genesis 11:5-7 NIV

Why does the Lord want to make things impossible? I don’t have an answer to this one and may never have till the day I die. Now think about how confused the people where.

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:8-9

Today we have many different cultures, different languages and countries. I am an American I am suppose to speak English. French people speak French. Mexicans speak Spanish. There is a reason why the good Lord made it this way. I fear for the future, because now a day we are tiring to unite the whole world with things like the Euro, free trade agreements and so on. Does man kind really think they can undo the Tower of Babel? You be the judge.