There was nothing wrong with trying to reach the heavens. The Tower of Babel was offensive, because God was never consulted in the construction nor thanked for providing the materials to build it.
In German, “Ein Mensch ist kein Mensch” means that a person alone is really not a person. We are fully human only in relationship.
I always looked upon this story as depicting God’s impatience. “That’s it. I’ve had enough. Let’s have a little rain.” Peter looked at it differently. He said, “God waited patiently in the days of Noah…" Patiently?
DR. RANDY L. HYDE, pastor of the Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas is a native of Paragould, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his wife Janet have [...]
You know what it is to travel with children. Just imagine traveling in a huge camper for months on end—with your children—all your in-laws— and their children—and all those animals. One of the first things Noah did when they got to dry land was to get drunk! Can’t say that I blame him!
Why all this talk about the size and structure of Noah’s Ark? As you might have guessed it has a religious significance. You see the ark is a symbol of the church. The ark was to save the animals. The church is to save the people.
REV. ALEX STEVENSON is the pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Columbia, South Carolina.
An email I got some time ago was called, “Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah’s Ark.” It starts like this: 1. Don’t miss the boat....
When Adam and Eve heard God coming they hid among the trees, because they saw something bad about their nakedness. They had disobeyed God. The beautiful harmony that God had created was shattered.
Something is seriously wrong! From the first page of the Bible to the last, the message is the same. Like Adam and Eve, we have let sin take us out of the Garden of Eden. We all live east of Eden.