the tower of Babel | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:19:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg the tower of Babel | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 From Babel to Pentecost: God Thwarts Self-Sufficiency Which Excludes Him (but Blesses Leaning) https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/10/god-thwarts-prideful-independence-but-blesses-leaning/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/10/god-thwarts-prideful-independence-but-blesses-leaning/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:11:40 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=41352 Genesis 11 So men decide to build a ziggurat, “with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves.” (Gen. 11:4) And God thwarts their ambition. Their confident, well-coordinated, carefully-worked-out, imaginative, forward-looking plans. If they continued to function in this way, these steady, methodical visionaries, making bricks, baking […]

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