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    Vaughan Roberts
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    Matthew 23:12, 1 Corinthians 3:11, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Daniel 4:37, Isaiah 2:11
    The tower of Babel is a vivid symbol of our sinful desire to exalt ourselves and create our own kingdom independently of God.

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    Kevin J. Vanhoozer
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    Acts 2:13, Acts 2:8-11
    It is well known that Pentecost reverses Babel. The people who built the tower of Babel sought to make a name, and a unity, for themselves. At Pentecost, God builds his temple, uniting people in Chris...

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    Colin E. Gunton
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    Genesis 11:1-9 , Exodus 32:1-8, Judges 21:25 , Acts 2:1-11, Romans 1:21-25, Psalm 19:1-4
    An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is in effect a new Babel. 'Postmodernism' represents that Babel perf...

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    John Chrysostom
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    And as in the time of building the tower [of Babel] the one tongue was divided into many; so then [at Pentecost] the many tongues frequently met in one man, and the same person used to discourse both ...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build them and men destroy them. At the same time there is the City of God which men did not build and cannot destroy and which is everlasting.

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    Mike Cosper
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    Genesis 3:8
    The garden itself was more than an agricultural project. It was a meeting place for God and man, where God “walked” among humanity (Gen. 3:8). It was the first temple, the first sacred space, set apar...

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    Brennan Manning
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    Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech.

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    Francis Bacon
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    The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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    Martin Luther
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    For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

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    Derek Zoolander
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    "This building has to be at least…. three times bigger than this!"

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    Belden Lane
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    2 Samuel 7:null
    Yahweh, unlike the mountain and fertility gods of the ancient Canaanites, refuses to be bound by any geographical locale. All of the 'high places' pretending to capture the divine presence mus...

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    William Cowper
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    Deep in unfathomable mines Of never ending skill, He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will.

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    John Inge
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    Genesis 2:null
    One only needs to open the Bible at the beginning of Genesis and read a few pages to be left with the impression that place is important to the writer. The second creation account (Genesis 2) revolves...

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    Robert Frost
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    Proverbs 18:19, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, Micah 6:8, Galatians 3:28, Psalm 133:1
    Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.

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    William P. Brown
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    [In comparison to ANE creation myths] God creates by word rather than sword.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    John 1:14, Hebrews 11:10, John 14:2-3, Psalm 90:1, Hebrews 13:14, Luke 2:1-10
    Home shall men come To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. To the end of the way of the wandering star; To the things that cannot be and that are, To the place where God was homeless...

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    Isaac Newton
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    We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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    Karl Barth
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    What sort of house is it to which the Bible is a door? What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?”

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

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    Henry David Thoreau
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    The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

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    Nigerian Prayer
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    God in heaven, you have helped my life to grow like a tree. Now something has happened. Satan, like a bird, has carried in one twig of his own choosing after another. Before I knew it he had built a d...

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    Alan Moore
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    “We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”

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    Meredith G. Kline
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    The city is not to be regarded as an evil invention of ungodly fallen man... The ultimate goal set before humanity at the very beginning was that human- culture should take city-form... there should b...

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    Woodrow Kroll
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    Only a fool thinks he can fool God.

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    Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
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    The city is the fulfillment of the purposes of the Eden of God. The city is the fulfiller of the paradise of God... which is tied to the future city with the original, sinless past of Eden and its res...

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    Basil of Caesarea
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    The world is a work of art, set before all for contemplation, so that through it the wisdom of Him who created it should be known …"

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    Randy S. Woodley
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    God has planned since the beginning of time to cultivate diversity among human beings. When people tried to circumvent His plan, God intervened by creating many languages. … [God] is a God of innovati...

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    Paul David Tripp
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    The Serpent held out to them the one thing they didn’t have, shouldn’t have, and could never have—God’s position. Taken from Awe: Why it Matters to Everything We Think, Say, and Do by Paul David Tripp...

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    John H. Sailhamer
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    The focus of the author since the beginning chapters of Genesis has been both on God’s plan to bless humankind by providing them with that which is “good” and on the human failure to trust God and enj...

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    Martin Luther
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    And though this world, with devils filled Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us. The prince of darkness grim, We tremble not for him; His ra...
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