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Podcast: Wrestling with Theology
Episode: Moment of Meditation: Name for Ourselves (Genesis 11:4)
Description: Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4
Names are important. They allow differentiation between things. You know the difference between an apple and an orange simply by their names.
As human beings, we want to distinguish ourselves from everyone else. But we often seek to do it in sinful ways. The tower builders wanted to enclose humanity. Exactly the opposite of what...