"Come, let us go down and there confuse their language,
so that they may not understand one another's speech.”
8 So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth,
and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel,
because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth.
And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth."
Genesis 11:7-9
When God said "let there be light" the light could not help but break through the darkness. "Order" could not help itself from forming into the "void" that is nothing when God spoke it into existence. Which goes to say, in the beginning of creation when God blessed man to be fruitful and multiply it was more of a blessed command "fill the earth" that was to be followed. However, man yet again being corrupt in their way of thinking even after the flood they chose to disobey that command and altogether "settled" in a main area. Even in that sinful state of mind, God's decree- embedded within them to grow, went up instead of out and the abominable creation of the tower of Babel was forming.
God, able to immediately create multiple languages and break down the disobedience they were committing was loving and gracious enough not to destroy them (yet again.) It wasn't so that they don't reach the heavens in their quest to build upwards, it even states that God had to come down to see the tower! It was a merciful act from God so that His creation would not bring upon themselves further wrath from the Perfect God. What took humans countless manpower and days to create one tall tower God was able to not only destroy it but disperse said people into different nations. Which goes to say, to test the boundaries of science and nature apart from God's decree is a terrifying thing to comprehend...
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