TOWER OF BABEL 2.021
Maybe I am reading in too much into this cancel culture thing but I see the Tower of Babel in it with its emphasis on being one and having one voice.
Yes, being one is nice. Don’t we all want to get along? But if the shift towards the moral acceptance of same-sex marriage, transgenderism even for kids, and abortion are any indication of being part of that culture, it is not based on one that is immutable and has been consistent even before time began.
Ideals, beliefs, and their practical application must be standard from their introduction. They cannot be true today and have 2.0s later this afternoon. It only shows how unreliable they are and how fallible its self-appointees are. If I am going to put my life on something, I want that something to be the same all throughout regardless of any tide as it has eternal consequences from which the point has no return.
The original Tower of Babel wanted to build a city “that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for OURSELVES” (Gen. 11:3-4 NIV). Let’s not think the people back then were naïvely building something physical; they were referring to their moral and spiritual intent of pushing God out by defying His command to “spread out across the earth” (Gen. 5:7, BSB). This defiance comes after the horrific global deluge. When we go make a name for ourselves, God has to go. And you know what? Their effort wasn’t something that had no legs to stand on as the Lord Himself acknowledged the power of their determined positivity.
“But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people 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.’” (Gen. 11:6-7 NIV).
The Tower of Babel v. 2.021 is picking up where the original left off. It is a sequel tickling our ears (2 Tim. 4:3) with its message of global oneness, teaching “the world to sing in perfect harmony.” But who’s beating the drum? That’s where the danger lies. It is not based on TRUTH (John 14:6) but on man’s relativism built on shifting sand. The greater danger is that it has penetrated the churches where its false gospel is sanctioned by the pulpit (Gal 1:8, 2 Cor. 11:4)
Just imagine someone saying, “Oh gravity is relative. What is real is what you feel. What matters is you’re happy and it doesn’t hurt anyone when you jump off a high-rise building or even just from a second-storey window. We will cancel those who insist on believing in the narrow dogma of gravity.” Of course we all know what will happen if we take that leap. No amount of faith will save us from the disaster that awaits us if we do. The same will happen to our souls for all eternity if we apply the same folly of ascribing authority to created man in matters where God the Creator has the only say-so for only His Word can and will stand forever. (1 Peter 1:25 BSB)
Maybe I am reading in too much into this cancel culture thing but I see the Tower of Babel in it with its emphasis on being one and having one voice.
Yes, being one is nice. Don’t we all want to get along? But if the shift towards the moral acceptance of same-sex marriage, transgenderism even for kids, and abortion are any indication of being part of that culture, it is not based on one that is immutable and has been consistent even before time began.
Ideals, beliefs, and their practical application must be standard from their introduction. They cannot be true today and have 2.0s later this afternoon. It only shows how unreliable they are and how fallible its self-appointees are. If I am going to put my life on something, I want that something to be the same all throughout regardless of any tide as it has eternal consequences from which the point has no return.
The original Tower of Babel wanted to build a city “that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for OURSELVES” (Gen. 11:3-4 NIV). Let’s not think the people back then were naïvely building something physical; they were referring to their moral and spiritual intent of pushing God out by defying His command to “spread out across the earth” (Gen. 5:7, BSB). This defiance comes after the horrific global deluge. When we go make a name for ourselves, God has to go. And you know what? Their effort wasn’t something that had no legs to stand on as the Lord Himself acknowledged the power of their determined positivity.
“But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people 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.’” (Gen. 11:6-7 NIV).
The Tower of Babel v. 2.021 is picking up where the original left off. It is a sequel tickling our ears (2 Tim. 4:3) with its message of global oneness, teaching “the world to sing in perfect harmony.” But who’s beating the drum? That’s where the danger lies. It is not based on TRUTH (John 14:6) but on man’s relativism built on shifting sand. The greater danger is that it has penetrated the churches where its false gospel is sanctioned by the pulpit (Gal 1:8, 2 Cor. 11:4)
Just imagine someone saying, “Oh gravity is relative. What is real is what you feel. What matters is you’re happy and it doesn’t hurt anyone when you jump off a high-rise building or even just from a second-storey window. We will cancel those who insist on believing in the narrow dogma of gravity.” Of course we all know what will happen if we take that leap. No amount of faith will save us from the disaster that awaits us if we do. The same will happen to our souls for all eternity if we apply the same folly of ascribing authority to created man in matters where God the Creator has the only say-so for only His Word can and will stand forever. (1 Peter 1:25 BSB)