The phrasing of Genesis 11:7 has always tickled me. The story is, mankind was united in both geography and language, and in their hubris had come to think pretty highly of themselves. Proudly, they thought that by architectural and technological genius they could “make a name for themselves” and explicitly set the goal of defying God’s will. And then Moses recalls this… And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built In the minds of humanity, their building was so impressive that they likely thought they could scale heaven with it....
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