Francine
Well-Known Member
In the Garden of Eden, God scattered Adam and Eve from their idyllic life of ease where everything they needed was provided for them. In the outside world they were forced to take the things they needed from the earth by their own labors. In dealing with Cain, God scattered him away from his chosen livelihood tilling the land and forced him and his progency to create the first cities, music, and blacksmithy. In both cases, God found men in a sterile, cloistered situation and spurred him on to creative effort in a larger arena.
At Babel, man had gathered together into a single tribe with a single tongue, and built a single city that would grow upward as much as it grew outward, a festering pimple on the face of the earth. By confusing their languages, God again scattered mankind from a secluded existence into widespread efforts that would result in him populating and subduing the entire planet.
God brought the Babylonians against Jerusalem and scattered the Jews across the world in the diaspora, thus ensuring no single catastrophe would again threaten the entirety of the Chosen People. Finally, acting entirely in accord with his Father's traditional procedure, the Son of God found his disciples cowering in the Upper Room and scattered them across the world in the Great Commission, with the command to teach all nations the Christian gospel.
At Babel, man had gathered together into a single tribe with a single tongue, and built a single city that would grow upward as much as it grew outward, a festering pimple on the face of the earth. By confusing their languages, God again scattered mankind from a secluded existence into widespread efforts that would result in him populating and subduing the entire planet.
God brought the Babylonians against Jerusalem and scattered the Jews across the world in the diaspora, thus ensuring no single catastrophe would again threaten the entirety of the Chosen People. Finally, acting entirely in accord with his Father's traditional procedure, the Son of God found his disciples cowering in the Upper Room and scattered them across the world in the Great Commission, with the command to teach all nations the Christian gospel.
