8:21 is pretty hard hitting. Side note: also my birthday. But here we are presented with "even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood."
Every?? Wow. And those were direct quotes from God. Also I think it's cool that God was smelling a sacrifice, and thought the aroma pleasing. Makes me want to cook better.
One other thing I don't understand is God's comment in 11:5. "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."
Thoughts, gentleman? Why would God intentionally try to confound us? "then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.". Is there another context to read this in?
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I really liked this observation from Bobby and spent some time thinking about it.
ReplyDeleteSo my broader view of this is based on this principle: we use Scripture to interpret Scripture. So I can't come to conclusions that are then refuted by the body of other Scripture. This leads me to state that its not the case that man could actually get to a point where everything is possible, so there has to be some other element at work here.
Here's what I'm postulating: God is actually acting partly out of mercy in preventing man from doing something that would only inspire greater hubris, pride, and a false belief in our self-sufficiency along with a lack of recognition of our fallenness and weakness. So in this sense when God says "then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them", I interpret as meaning, if man does this, it will only leader to greater folly and sin as a result of their belief in their own power (stemming from completing the Tower).