@@julianrichy5830 We don't deserve to be loved and redeemed as God is willing, but God is merciful, loving, generous, righteous, uplifting, and not willing that any should perish. Don't you know the wickedness of the flesh, the curse of sin? God redeems us even if when we make so many mistakes. Part of being a human in this world is learning how little we really are. Humility is an important thing for a Christian. We must know our place and fear God. In my own experience, I'll never be worthy or deserving of the way God treats me, but he loves me nonetheless. Jesus died on the cross I deserved to give me the freedom that was his.
@@tristenpearce3347 Tristen, Tristen,Tristen, 😧😧😧please don't take this offensive but you sound like you have extremely low self esteem. When are babies born our responsibility to take care of him or her? If you were to put your child in the playpen and then go to Disney world for two weeks, won't that child be dead when you come back, & won't you go to jail because he/she was your responsibility? We never begged God to be out here but since we are here isn't it his responsibility to take care of us. Please don't say yes but when we become adults where left to make adult decisions. Truth be told if we never existed it would be impossible for us to make a mistake right or wrong. I simply just& won't understand God in this life time I unfortunately :(
@@julianrichy5830 I won't understand God either, but God didn't have to create us either. Consider the way a lot of people treat God. I don't have low self-esteem, I have very high esteem for God almighty. God is God, he is not bound by anything but his own word. He has no obligation to take care of us. sometimes people tread over his word like it's garbage and expect God to bless them abundantly like his word is some kind of joke. All I mean is that there is nothing we can do to deserve the amount of love God has for us.
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM! Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings! Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21 Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. RSV Only-monos God-theos Monos theos Monotheism The Father Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)! Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God! Jesus has a God! Jesus died! God can’t die! God raised Jesus from the dead!
@@mitchellc4 Yeah. I've heard that before. Jesus is the Christ, the God incarnate. He is the radiance of God's glory in human flesh and he is God , the eternal Word through which everyone gets true understanding of the spirit in their entire being. God became a human so we can relate to him in a better way.
@@levipaul3168 Who is the God of Jesus?? Rom 15 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 2 Cor 11 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie. Eph 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, Eph 1 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, Col 1 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 1 Pet 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Rev 1 6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
@@mitchellc4 Jesus said - Before Abraham was I AM. Jesus said - If you have seen me you have seen the father. Jesus said - I am the light of this world. John 1 says - the Word was with God and the Word was God. The true light which gives light to all men. Apostle Thomas said - my Lord, my God. Jesus said - I am the Alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end. The first and the last. Jesus said - I and the the Father are one. I believe in the truine God friend.
@@levipaul3168 No Jesus didn’t use Exodus 3 in John 8 Jesus said before Abraham was born “ego eimi” which means I am he Multiple people say ego eimi in the New Testament, but you’re not saying they are God? The blind man who was healed said it John 9 9 Some said, “It is he”; others said, “No, but he is like him.” He said, “I am the man.” I am the man= ego eimi The blind man just said ego eimi, did he just refer to Exodus and claim to be God?? Of course not I believe in the Greek translation of Exodus it says “Ego eimi HO ON” Tell them “HO ON” has sent you (I Am has sent you) Had Jesus said HO ON you may have a point, but he didn’t Who is the God of Jesus???????? Rom 15 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 2 Cor 11 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie. Eph 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, Eph 1 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, Col 1 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 1 Pet 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Rev 1 6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
I just read this today, and yes, Genesis 11:6 confused me greatly. Now, given the background you've provided, I'm reading it as the same sarcasm you can read in Job 38-41. God not only had to "come down" to see this mighty tower that was supposed to reach to the heavens, but upon seeing it, he's so "impressed", that he says "nothing will be impossible for them". It seems to be another slam on how laughably tiny their tower is (and how powerless man is in comparison to God).
I love that people can read the sarcasm, and sometimes funny nature of God. Hey we were made of his image so it makes sense. Stop playing you rambunctious kids!! 😅😆
But if it was just sarcasm, then why confuse the languages, if Elohim really wasn't "impressed" or "worried", then why feel the need to confuse the People's languages?
@@johngriffin2360 Wow, this is an old post. :) Probably because the people were now all working together with a goal to become famous rather than knowing him. This was a direct challenge to his authority in that they wanted fame and glory instead of bringing it to him. So, although it never would have come close to succeeding, it was still causing a feedback loop of pride in their hearts. My interpretation is that God was being a Father, watching his kids build a cardboard fort so they could be famous (or get out from his authority), so God rolls his eyes at them, sent confusion upon them, something so they couldn't work together. Then they would abandon their plans, and some of them would end up seeking him rather than seeking their own way. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I'm seeing this.
@@acem82 ok, so basically, they thought they understood the truth of reality, and God , showing them how little they understood, confused their language, to show how little they really knew😳, that's a great explaination, lol,🤣, and really freaking hilarious, you guys think you know everything, you don't even understand that everything has more than one perception, here, let me introduce you to languages...😰
would a perfect all powerful god who created in his image care that we are humanising him? Sounds like this god is egotistical and concerned with his image in the eyes of humanity which doesn't seem all powerful and loving to me
@Merry A It’s not simple anthropomorphization, it’s essentially slander. It’s literally insulting God by portraying him as a needy being who requires our aid. They’re portraying God as multiple gods who are drunkards, desire sex, need food, and disturbed by noise. It’s a degrading image that would certainly insult you if you were portrayed as such. They’re degrading his image to that of a sugar daddy.
Even nowadays the traditional churches design their alters in a room decorated in a particular way. The ornaments and physical structure show how Heaven on the ceiling flows down through the wall to meet Earth at the alter.
I have been struggling with the issue regarding linguistics and Babel! Thank you for this video. You're spot-on about phrases referencing the entire earth not being literal, such as in Genesis 41: 57. I really can't express how thankful I am for this insight.
Why would you be thankful that a commentator says the Bible is misleading if taken literally? Why is it unlikely the flood was global? Why wouldn't humanity originally speak a common language?
Another good theory about the Tower of Babel is that it would be a place of worship for pre-Flood ancestors like Lamech and Tubal-Cain, who started to be treated as gods by humanity, who started to feel nostalgia for the world before the flood and who Nimrod was a kind of messiah, who after the confusion of languages and the dispersion of peoples was deified in the form of gods, kings and heroes.
It is truly a blessing and a divine revelation to see echos of God given wisdom and insight through someone else's work. Your own personal God given revelations unveiling in the thoughts of another. Sometimes, it is lonely because no one else can see what our Lord has shown you, but when you miraculously stumble across or come in contact with it...it is truly a joy unspeakable and full of glory. Our God is awesome and to him be all of the praise. Amen and Amen. Thank you.
Great end to the series on primordial history, the one that introduced me to your channel! Thank you for helping me dive deeper into scripture without fear of trying to reconcile it with science or evidence, but not compromising inspiration/inerrancy either! Did the quiz too BTW
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM! Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings! Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21 Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. RSV Only-monos God-theos Monos theos Monotheism The Father Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)! Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God! Jesus has a God! Jesus died! God can’t die! God raised Jesus from the dead!
@@mitchellc4 I'm honestly convinced atheists or worse spam these things I know alot of pastors none of which no how to use a computer and every single time I see it I hate it even more Christians themselves know that
@@thewildcardperson Who is the God of Jesus?? Rom 15 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 2 Cor 11 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie. Eph 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, Eph 1 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, Col 1 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 1 Pet 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Rev 1 6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The idea of calling down deities with structures is well attested in esoteric literature. Not to mention pop culture. Lest we forget the Manhattan Crossrip of 1984 😉. In all seriousness, great insights!
So I had this crazy Dream where everyone was cutting off the top halves of all buildings because We believed God didn't like Skyscrapers because of this chapter.
FWIW, those skyscrapers into the clouds always seemed to me like gross overstatements that 'we can be like God" without giving Him the credit for the creative virtues He's given to man.
I mean God's problem was man's self aggrandizement, pride and Self glory so I think it applies to anything man does with out God and it wouldn't rule out sky scrapers. In a modern sense it be NASA lol but we are under a different Covenant so when Christ returns He will judge righteously.
So, after eating some humble pie (I have not gone through the Bible since I moved so I'm beyond rusty) where I attributed the tower to Nimrod and then reading Chapter 11 and wanting more insight I found your video. Fantastic commentary, so I'm very grateful for your video. I know there are some details we wont know in this life but I'm reminded ONCE AGAIN to stay humble because we are prone to error and we need his word daily and we need study like our next breath...it's THAT vital!
Excellent video, we just discussed Gen 11 today in our fellowship gathering. Babel is so misunderstood in modern Christianity. If people realized the dramatic regathering of the disinherited nations from Gen 11 that occurs in Acts 2 at Pentecost, they would never read the NT again the same way. The good news of the Gospel is that those “called not my people” would once again be called “my people” - the crushing of the serpent and the reclaiming of all nations to become God’s inheritance through Abraham’s seed (singular)....its amazing. The Gospel is such good news and the story of the Bible is amazing when you understand the ANE and Hebrew literary style and how they wrote polemically against pagans. Simply amazing inspired Word of God...breathed for us, as life, just as Adam had life breathed into him and just like Jesus entered amongst his disciples and breathed on them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. Glorious! Hallelujah to the One YHWH who alone is worthy.
Seem like it was some way they knew about calling on Celestials because soon after that, it’s post Flood Nephilim meaning Celestials were back being worshipped and making babies with Earth Women.
@Umbuko DaJuko over every type of sin there’s some sort of demonic power over it just as the bible puts it: Ephesians 6:12- For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Archeology certainly supports the story of Babel. The first large buildings WERE built in Sumeria where civilization is thought to originate. There was no stone to build with so they made bricks. I truly enjoy your videos, I appreciate that you go back to the orginal Hebrew for your interpretation of each verse. Genesis is probably my favorite book of Old Testament
@@citrus4419 he can love me all he wants all I know is I don't and you don't need to go through him to reach the kingdom of God! You are already in the kingdom of God 🙆♂️
@@philosophiamourningstar9424 Sumerian, Akkadian & Assyrian kings followed the pattern of Enmerkar of Uruk, who decreed (in a cuneiform tablet to the Lord of Aratta) that international trade would be conducted in one language. The decree was issued from "the great mountain".
@@differous01 I didn't know that, very interesting, especially seeing that ALL our Legal Documents and contracts like to throw those LATIN words in there
@@philosophiamourningstar9424 The reason the English dictionary is twice as thick as that of most other languages is that Merrie England absorbed the 'lingua franca' of the Church and, later, our Norman-French lords. The Babel curse is ongoing, regardless of Silicon Valley's efforts to decree what may be said.
I get so excited when I see a little blue dot alongside InspiringPhilosphy in my subscriptions. I just know the video will be something that makes me see passages in the Bible in a way I never thought of before. If the video is on a topic like, the mind I just think how does IP have the knowledge and understanding to even research this stuff. I, on a Sunday night, look at my math homework and think I do not even know where to start.
@@barrystephan2378 Are you making an argument from authority? I have read many different interpretations of many passages of the Bible, the more the better as the texts are being thoroughly investigated from different angles. I class IP very highly indeed in no small part because he doesn't necessarily follow the mainstream. Keep in mind I could disagree with IP on a particular reading of a passage, but that in no way would degrade IP in my assessment of him since he isn't God but a loved brother in Christ who is without a doubt very smart indeed, Christianity is all the better for having very smart guys like IP and even blonds who are totally useless at math. Learn to give credit where credit is due, it's all too easy to criticise and find an 'expert' who agrees with you. The secret is to find one that doesn't so that you don't become closed-minded.
@@barrystephan2378 _"“and even blonds who are totally useless at math” could you elaborate on this point? I agree that IP has taken a closer look at these subjects than most. Yet he’s not correct on a lot of what he says about the Bible, and I think Christians would be better off with more mature Christians like Pete Enns (who is also a bible scholar) who don’t constantly attempt to rewrite the most common academic interpretation of a religious book when it conflicts with their beliefs."_ No, you are making the same mistake. Christianity would be better off with both. I listen to John MacArthur who is a Calvinist, Sam Shamoun who is a Catholic leaning middle eastern orthodox Christian and Mick Winger, who I do not know what he is, then, I worship at my evangelical church on Sunday, holding all the possible conflicting views I have heard in the week without any problem since they all really teach the same, but come from different angles. I like Sam Shamoun too he has spent the week trying to teach those watching that Mary was a Perpetual Virgin. He makes a good case, but those who claim Mary wasn't a perpetual virgin make a good case too. I could be persuaded she was or wasn't. I do not see it as something to fall out over, neither do I see it as something that would stop me from worshipping with those who were convinced one way or the other. Because I disagreed with someone on one thing wouldn't mean they became untrustworthy on all things. I would ultimately go with what my dad said, who isn't a Pastor/ Biblical scholar, but simply My dad, who has invested the most in me (his life) and like all teen girls, my dad is my hero. I do not think IP is rewriting church doctrine I think he is putting out a white paper for your scholar to critique and for those like me to consider. The church is under demonic attack, IP isn't the enemy but the front line troops and so is Pete Enns I bet. send me a link to your favourite video of his I will check him out.
@@barrystephan2378 _"I mean, he has a whole series on trying to rectify biblical contradictions... why?"_ To rectify the supposedly Bible contradictions. _"What is with the laser focus on such insignificant details? Christians need to be mature and recognize that the Bible was written by fallible humans and that there are errors in the Bible."_ Is that what Bart told you? _"Christianity can still be true, but they need to give up the empty apologetics and it is so obvious what their motive is when they do it."_ Well, I think they are more credible than you. So how can we resolve that? _"If a father tells his five-year-old to write down something great that the father did and it is not written perfectly, that does not mean that the father did not do something great."_ You would have to define great, and not perfectly. if my dad dictated a great poem to me when I was 5 and I didn't write it perfectly someone would have to interpret what a five-year-old meant by her incoherent words. perhaps we could ask IP? _"This is the greatest problem plaguing so many Christians, they go crazy about the Bible needing to be perfect. "_ I think you talk in contradictory terms. It isn't necessarily errors but the interpretation. Just because I can't come to the same conclusion of a passage in the bible as someone else doesn't mean there is an error, it could mean I haven't read the passage in context, or the five-year-old hasn't got the mental capacity at that time. You or I could produce a bible that was totally corrupted. But our bible would have to sit alongside other bibles that were plainly nothing like ours and ours wouldn't reflect the manuscripts. What you are telling me is that you think there are errors that should not be rationalised, other than we go with what you want, which is just go with, others weren't as accepting of the errors as you. I do not accept that, I do accept I may not be able to explain the perceived errors, and I accept you do not want to resolve the perceived error. However, I am more than happy to let someone who has the intellect to have a go and let's check it out. Are you a Muslim by any chance?
@@barrystephan2378 The church is always under attack that's why we must always be on guard ...one of this attacks is that the devil tries to bring conflict among brethrens...I agree with you @ @Sarah Clark just because you disagree with someone/something on something doesn't make everything pertaining to it rubbish
Its amazing how much of my early childhood Christian education was just plain wrong and watered down. Starting my REAL walk with the Lord relatively recently, your channel has been a huge blessing.
IP, I really appreciate all the hard work & research you put into your presentations. This is one of my favorites, because you linked up what seem like disparate accounts of man's relationship to our LORD. The scales fell from my eyes when you said that Abram was tapped to lead those left behind from the dispersion. Now there will be a "flow" to my reading in Genesis. Thank you so much!
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM! Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings! Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21 Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. RSV Only-monos God-theos Monos theos Monotheism The Father Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)! Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God! Jesus has a God! Jesus died! God can’t die! God raised Jesus from the dead!
@@JavierMartinez-gd5dr Jesus is the Son of God The Messiah A mighty prophet yes All of those are Christian beliefs, why would I be a Muslim ? Jesus HAS a God Rom 15 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 2 Cor 11 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie. Eph 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, Eph 1 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, Col 1 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 1 Pet 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Rev 1 6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM! Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings! Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21 Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. RSV Only-monos God-theos Monos theos Monotheism The Father Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)! Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God! Jesus has a God! Jesus died! God can’t die! God raised Jesus from the dead!
Superbe enseignement. Avec de belles explications sur le mode de vie dans l'Antiquité. Je suis très content d'avoir trouvé cette vidéo. Surtout que le Seigneur m'a dit par 2 fois :"Tour de Babel" ces derniers jours. Et j'avais vraiment besoin de comprendre le rapport entre les temps que nous vivons en 2020 et la tour de Babel qui date de temps très anciens. Encore merci pour cette vidéo ! 👍 Que la grâce de Dieu vous accompagne !
The most in-depth sharing of Genesis 11. I love the thoughts and researches that went into this video, especially the part on Mesopotamia and their view toward God and heaven. Thank you so much.
Tower of Babel was at Eridu. The first city and home of the worlds oldest and largest ziggurat. This ziggurat was never completed and abandoned for 3000 years... wonder why? The ziggurat was dedicated to the god ENKI. Meaning Lord of the Earth ( a title Jesus gave Satan) ENKI was also the lord of the abyss and taught forbidden wisdom to mankind in the sumerian mythology. I think ENKI is the serpent, and the people were punished for building a temple to satan
@@jamespoff8632 what do people think is devil worship? reading mythology? I use it as a tool to reconstruct my faith. Its like how a detective solves a case. They gather all the evidence and eye witness accounts and review it all to piece together what really happened. Deutoronomy 32:8 talks about how at babel God divorces the world as their God. Then assigns his sons of god.. lower g gods or elohim as rulers and gods of these nations. This is how paganism started. They were supposed to help humanity, but evidence from psalm 82 proves they became corrupt and made the people worship them instead. The enuma elish and eridu genesis claim the annunaki came from Mount Hermon. Genesis 6 implies the mountain the sons of god decended on was mount hermon. Why? because they always replicate the creator. Eden was a mountain garden. A mount of assembly where divine council meetings took place with spirit beings and humanity. Babel was a man made looking mountain, wanting to create a divine assembly and holy mountain of their own. Mount Hermon was the divine assembly meeting place for these fallen angels where they made a pact to take human wives. If you look at the history of mount hermon, you will find a number of pagan temples on it, as well as the grotto of pan.. the roman goat god of debauchery and sex. The head angel to have decended was Azazel.. a goat god. funnily enough, there is also a united nations base at the top of the mountain. Another modern day mount of assembly. This is also where the transfiguration of Christ took place.
@@redpilledtrooper7523 a lot of knowledge you have there and i praise you for it. .What i was talking about are those who chose to do harm unto others by sacrifice
Good video, IP! There are some other interesting angles to how the Tower of Babel story is related in the Bible. For instance, there is a play on words when the people at Babel say "Let us make a name for ourselves." The word for "name" in Hebrew is "shem," which is also the name of the son of Noah who had the divine blessing. If you go back a chapter, you see that Babel was built by Nimrod, a Hamite. So when the people say "Let us make a name/Shem for ourselves," the text is communicating a double meaning. It means that they are seeking personal fame and glory, of course, but also that they are Hamites trying appropriate the divine blessing of Shem through their own effort. This ties in very nicely with the points you made that they are trying to get God to "come down" through their own power. And of course there's a double-meaning there too. They do get God to "come down," but He does it on His own terms and for His own purposes, which are antithetical to what they were trying to manipulate him into doing. Also, notice that in Genesis 10, Babel is said to be the first of several cities that Nimrod built, and the beginning of his kingdom. In other words, he was building an empire, and Babel was that empire's beginning and power center. This puts Genesis 11 in perspective, and explains the people's fears of "being scattered over the face of the earth." The process described in Genesis 10 was underway, where the descendants of Noah's sons were spreading out around the land, and beginning to form their own different tongues. The people of Babel sought to halt that process by building an empire that would keep the (known) world united under a single language, which they hoped to do by appropriating divine power. And just as God inverted the purpose of the tower by "coming down" in a way that was antithetical to what the people of Babel intended, so He inverted the purpose of their city and empire by using the occasion to confuse their speech, thereby changing it from a means of preventing the natural division of language to a means of *accelerating* it.
1:08 This is the next verse, but the previous time the word "Erets (Earth, land) was used is in the verse immediately preceding, at the end of chapter 10. So contextually it makes sense to say this meant all the people of Earth went to Shinar.
Really awesome stuff here IP! Gotta say, this is a rather interesting interpretation of the Babel Narrative Originally I assumed the Tower was a sort of monument to idolizing human greatness and ingenuity, while also creating a culture where humans are "as gods", and are able to decide good and evil on their own terms (like the Garden).
THANK YOU! This was THE last big puzzle piece that was giving me a lot of trouble with having a comprehensive model for interpreting Biblical history and secular archeological claims on human origins concordantly. I've concluded Old Earth and Old Humanity is right and without the bounds of Biblical interpretation, but I was so stuck on Babel. If the events at Babel were punishment for failure to disperse, yet humanity had largely dispersed already by the 4000 BC, then it makes no sense! And due to the "fired bricks" I couldn't move Babel back in time to a point before humanity dispersed. Looking at Babel as a local event while other languages already existed far away and looking at it as punishment for distorting God rather than failing to disperse solve that problem. Your videos have helped with a number of other apologetics issues that kept me up at night to. Thank you!
I feel like there should be a 20-second or 30-second slow mode for the live chats, just to encourage the people to pay attention and not get distracted by trolls. That might not work and I could be wrong but that is just my recommendation 9/10 video anyways!
Big up brother in this remarkable insights of ancient Biblical interpretations. We really need expository preaching, where the Bible interpreted in its context. It just beautiful and juicy, the beauty of Scriptures. The Word of God is marvelous, beautiful. We thank our Lord God for His Word. Grace and peace
What we don't like in the bible, we simply don't interprete it literally, and try to concort another meaning for it, but what we do like, we take that literally. Got it 👍
What happened at Babel was our brain got split. Before babel we were living a Utopian society. We spoke One language through out the earth, this means we were united. We were getting ready to go home. The eternal realm is our True home. The devil who created a Title for himself-god divided us. Since then till now we have been ruling over and killing each other. "The Gnostic Truth, Unity vs Division". ua-cam.com/video/Upks5oLN1mY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=AWikkedMoon
Fun fact: Warad-Sin is the Sumerian version of Eri-Aku, aka Arioch of Genesis 14. Also, at 12:37 - 25 sheep daily for Anu is a TON. Considering from the Persepolis Fortification Tablets centuries later under Darius, royalty like princesses would get 1/3 of a sheep per month, 25 sheep daily means there were dozens if not hundreds of priests and other personnel. Not to mention the oxen, again daily. That's a huge amount when you consider it comparatively
I can’t help but feel that God’s rescue plan via Abraham starting at ch. 12 was intentional EDIT: The original wasn't divided into chapters so it probably was not. Thanks for pointing that out Iosif
@@SomeRandomDude000000 12 is a symbollic number repeated many times throughout the Bible. Some examples I can think off the top of my head would be: 12 apostles, 12 tribes of Israel, and humans living to 120 years (12x10). With this in mind, the fact that the story of Israel starting on Ch. 12 seems intentional.
@@Iosif-qk9iz but Yah knows everything his outside of this 3 dimentional realm of time, he knows that will happen so he made moses write the otiot/paleo hebrew symbol words in order for the chapters and verses to coincide later on.
The problem with rejecting the old textual tradition is that all the near eastern religious perspectives you discussed come *after Babel*, so they could have reasonably attempted to "storm heaven" if they were thinking God was limited, and *then* once Babel happen, people realized they could not attempt to take heaven, so they intend to bring heaven down to them thus causing the religious culture of the region.
I had a look at the "Biblical timeline" In Answersingenesis". Supposedly, Noah's flood happened 2348 BC, and the tower of Babel happened 2246 BC. So within 102 years the population increased from 8 to whatever is necessary to build a tower into the heaven. Doesn't seem very likely.
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM! Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings! Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21 Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. RSV Only-monos God-theos Monos theos Monotheism The Father Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)! Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God! Jesus has a God! Jesus died! God can’t die! God raised Jesus from the dead!
@J H Nimrod could have very well been Gilgamesh. Although nimrod is likely an archetype used to represent various larger than life Sumerian & Babylonian Kings
@InspiringPhilosophy, Can you point out how you came to the conclusion that the straightforward reading of the text is wrong regarding the builders of the temple of Babel were afraid to be scattered? I don't read anything about the people then being afraid of being scattered in the text, so could you explain the link there? Thanks, just trying to see your reasoning.
I don't think he ever said that. But if you are trying to reduce the tower to a fear of being scattered, then you would have to ignore portions of the text.
The tower was a monument to their own ingenuity. They understood the cost of everything and the value of nothing, attempting to do outwardly and physically what can only be done metaphorically, inwardly and spiritually.
@@Joleyn-Joy It's like they completely lack any concept of what philosophy is. I wonder how they'd react to learning that Ecclesiastes is technically a work of philosophy...
It would be great if videos like this will be translated. I find your channel very helpful and I want to show it to my family but they can't understand English very well
1. Reread it. I was able to do it during the Sabbath observance (Matthew 24:20). The sin? Not observing Sabbath. The previous Cain and Abel comparison: controlling Temper, having patience, friendly competition, the 3 will perfect religious observance. 2. The sin was not about the construction of the Tower. The sin was their "imagination" and neglect of a day of rest to worship HaShem. 3. The "imagination" was a compounding of neglecting a day of observance and equating themselves to HaShem Elohim through constructing a tower not dedicated to him but themselves. 4. The Tower then became an idol in their minds. It was built with their hands but the imagination could also build idols. It was also a forecast of Nebuchadnezzar's idol of a man.
A lot of Bible versions say One or Same language. I disagree with your point saying that the interpretation is wrong. If the Bible says one language or same language then that's what it is. You can philosophize it but that be adding your interpretation to it.
@@Joleyn-Joy yes I heard that, he meant they spoke the same language just for that region though. That's why I still posted this comment. The Bible says "the whole world" or "All the people of the world"
@@sarrok85 I should have listened to the whole point of the video. Which he shows the reasoning of the people of Babel and what they thought what God wanted.
@@sarrok85 you are wrong, I in no way live that way. Faith isn't feelings and being sensual or living by happenstance. We are commanded to worship God with all of our heart, strength, soul and MIND.
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Just aced the quiz first try. Wheres my prize?
Jk. The quiz itself was a fun surPRIZE :)
Aced the quiz got 5/5
Well im gonna try.
Hey, Mr. Jones can we use calculators on the quiz?
Is this how you're weeding out people who comment things that are addressed in your video. ngl its pretty funny if it is
God is so faithful, he just keeps redeeming us even though we don't deserve it.
Praise God
Amen.
🙄🙄😮 what do you mean we don't deserve it????????
@@julianrichy5830 We don't deserve to be loved and redeemed as God is willing, but God is merciful, loving, generous, righteous, uplifting, and not willing that any should perish. Don't you know the wickedness of the flesh, the curse of sin? God redeems us even if when we make so many mistakes. Part of being a human in this world is learning how little we really are. Humility is an important thing for a Christian. We must know our place and fear God. In my own experience, I'll never be worthy or deserving of the way God treats me, but he loves me nonetheless. Jesus died on the cross I deserved to give me the freedom that was his.
@@tristenpearce3347
Tristen, Tristen,Tristen, 😧😧😧please don't take this offensive but you sound like you have extremely low self esteem. When are babies born our responsibility to take care of him or her? If you were to put your child in the playpen and then go to Disney world for two weeks, won't that child be dead when you come back, & won't you go to jail because he/she was your responsibility? We never begged God to be out here but since we are here isn't it his responsibility to take care of us. Please don't say yes but when we become adults where left to make adult decisions. Truth be told if we never existed it would be impossible for us to make a mistake right or wrong. I simply just& won't understand God in this life time I unfortunately
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@@julianrichy5830 I won't understand God either, but God didn't have to create us either. Consider the way a lot of people treat God. I don't have low self-esteem, I have very high esteem for God almighty. God is God, he is not bound by anything but his own word. He has no obligation to take care of us. sometimes people tread over his word like it's garbage and expect God to bless them abundantly like his word is some kind of joke. All I mean is that there is nothing we can do to deserve the amount of love God has for us.
this video is so interesting, giving a logical interpretation of these stories are amazing and helps me understand how deep this goes.
Whose logic?
I am from Angola, I'm a huge fan of your work. God Bless you my brother.
Am from Nigeria and I love his work
And I’m from Morocco! nice three people from the same continent in the same commenting thread! 😂
Texas says hello.
God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Indeed, God is same yesterday today and forever
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
@@mitchellc4 Yeah. I've heard that before. Jesus is the Christ, the God incarnate. He is the radiance of God's glory in human flesh and he is God , the eternal Word through which everyone gets true understanding of the spirit in their entire being. God became a human so we can relate to him in a better way.
@@levipaul3168
Who is the God of Jesus??
Rom 15
6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Cor 11
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.
Eph 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Col 1
3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
1 Pet 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Rev 1
6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
@@mitchellc4 Jesus said - Before Abraham was I AM.
Jesus said - If you have seen me you have seen the father.
Jesus said - I am the light of this world.
John 1 says - the Word was with God and the Word was God. The true light which gives light to all men.
Apostle Thomas said - my Lord, my God.
Jesus said - I am the Alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end. The first and the last.
Jesus said - I and the the Father are one.
I believe in the truine God friend.
@@levipaul3168
No Jesus didn’t use Exodus 3 in John 8
Jesus said before Abraham was born “ego eimi” which means I am he
Multiple people say ego eimi in the New Testament, but you’re not saying they are God?
The blind man who was healed said it
John 9
9 Some said, “It is he”; others said, “No, but he is like him.” He said, “I am the man.”
I am the man= ego eimi
The blind man just said ego eimi, did he just refer to Exodus and claim to be God?? Of course not
I believe in the Greek translation of Exodus it says
“Ego eimi HO ON”
Tell them “HO ON” has sent you (I Am has sent you)
Had Jesus said HO ON you may have a point, but he didn’t
Who is the God of Jesus????????
Rom 15
6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Cor 11
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.
Eph 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Col 1
3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
1 Pet 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Rev 1
6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Because of this video's I can understand Genesis 1-11 more in it's context and it now even became more beautiful to read. God bless you!
I just read this today, and yes, Genesis 11:6 confused me greatly. Now, given the background you've provided, I'm reading it as the same sarcasm you can read in Job 38-41. God not only had to "come down" to see this mighty tower that was supposed to reach to the heavens, but upon seeing it, he's so "impressed", that he says "nothing will be impossible for them". It seems to be another slam on how laughably tiny their tower is (and how powerless man is in comparison to God).
I love that people can read the sarcasm, and sometimes funny nature of God. Hey we were made of his image so it makes sense. Stop playing you rambunctious kids!! 😅😆
But if it was just sarcasm, then why confuse the languages, if Elohim really wasn't "impressed" or "worried", then why feel the need to confuse the People's languages?
@@johngriffin2360 Wow, this is an old post. :)
Probably because the people were now all working together with a goal to become famous rather than knowing him. This was a direct challenge to his authority in that they wanted fame and glory instead of bringing it to him. So, although it never would have come close to succeeding, it was still causing a feedback loop of pride in their hearts.
My interpretation is that God was being a Father, watching his kids build a cardboard fort so they could be famous (or get out from his authority), so God rolls his eyes at them, sent confusion upon them, something so they couldn't work together. Then they would abandon their plans, and some of them would end up seeking him rather than seeking their own way.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I'm seeing this.
@@acem82 ok, so basically, they thought they understood the truth of reality, and God , showing them how little they understood, confused their language, to show how little they really knew😳, that's a great explaination, lol,🤣, and really freaking hilarious, you guys think you know everything, you don't even understand that everything has more than one perception, here, let me introduce you to languages...😰
@@acem82 oh and thank you for replying back🙂
Man, you can't imagine how much this video changed my viewpoint. Everything is coming together
“They are ‘babeling’ away...”
Genius
Like the babble.. I understand repeat right.
I actually got chills. This is beyond fascinating!
Thank you for pointing out how their sin was also anthropomorphizing God, that’s often overlooked.
Great researched & presented series
would a perfect all powerful god who created in his image care that we are humanising him? Sounds like this god is egotistical and concerned with his image in the eyes of humanity which doesn't seem all powerful and loving to me
@Merry A
It’s not simple anthropomorphization, it’s essentially slander. It’s literally insulting God by portraying him as a needy being who requires our aid. They’re portraying God as multiple gods who are drunkards, desire sex, need food, and disturbed by noise. It’s a degrading image that would certainly insult you if you were portrayed as such. They’re degrading his image to that of a sugar daddy.
@@marcfofi688 this still sounds like human pride to me. Why would an all powerful god care how we portray them?
@@merrya7941 Why wouldnt He?
@@merrya7941 Are you suggesting its morally wrong to desire to not be slandered?
Great job! Will you be doing this for the other 1,178 chapters?
He better or I'm unsubscribing
So basically, Genesis 11 is ancient Israelites absolutely roasting ancient Mesopotamians.
I'm binging all your vids and there is nothing that can stop me, no sir.
Good!
@@InspiringPhilosophy Subtitles English, please.
Even nowadays the traditional churches design their alters in a room decorated in a particular way. The ornaments and physical structure show how Heaven on the ceiling flows down through the wall to meet Earth at the alter.
Thanks for all you are doing here. Must be a ton of work. Currently bingeing through your stuff.
What a capstone to end an amazing series! This is one of my favorite videos! Mike what a great job you have done! Can't wait for Exodus!
GOD NEEDS NOTHING FROM US BUT WE DEFINATELY NEED HIM FOR EVERYTHING.
"The people of Babel built a sacred space to exault themselves."
So they were secular humanists? Makes sense.
I have been struggling with the issue regarding linguistics and Babel! Thank you for this video. You're spot-on about phrases referencing the entire earth not being literal, such as in Genesis 41: 57. I really can't express how thankful I am for this insight.
Why would you be thankful that a commentator says the Bible is misleading if taken literally?
Why is it unlikely the flood was global? Why wouldn't humanity originally speak a common language?
@@kerriwilson7732 bc there's no evidence for this that's why
Another good theory about the Tower of Babel is that it would be a place of worship for pre-Flood ancestors like Lamech and Tubal-Cain, who started to be treated as gods by humanity, who started to feel nostalgia for the world before the flood and who Nimrod was a kind of messiah, who after the confusion of languages and the dispersion of peoples was deified in the form of gods, kings and heroes.
It is truly a blessing and a divine revelation to see echos of God given wisdom and insight through someone else's work. Your own personal God given revelations unveiling in the thoughts of another. Sometimes, it is lonely because no one else can see what our Lord has shown you, but when you miraculously stumble across or come in contact with it...it is truly a joy unspeakable and full of glory. Our God is awesome and to him be all of the praise. Amen and Amen. Thank you.
Great end to the series on primordial history, the one that introduced me to your channel! Thank you for helping me dive deeper into scripture without fear of trying to reconcile it with science or evidence, but not compromising inspiration/inerrancy either! Did the quiz too BTW
I enjoyed hearing you out on a view point i did not get in Christian school. Thank you!
“Is it possible to learn of this tower?”
“Not from a Christian school.”
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
@@mitchellc4 I don't really understand why you post this literally everywhere.
@@mitchellc4 I'm honestly convinced atheists or worse spam these things I know alot of pastors none of which no how to use a computer and every single time I see it I hate it even more Christians themselves know that
@@thewildcardperson
Who is the God of Jesus??
Rom 15
6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Cor 11
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.
Eph 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Col 1
3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
1 Pet 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Rev 1
6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The idea of calling down deities with structures is well attested in esoteric literature. Not to mention pop culture. Lest we forget the Manhattan Crossrip of 1984 😉. In all seriousness, great insights!
Great work yet again! I really appreciate the time, research, and intellectual rigor you put into your work. THANK YOU.
So I had this crazy Dream where everyone was cutting off the top halves of all buildings because We believed God didn't like Skyscrapers because of this chapter.
What's really sad is that I can see some fundies actually making that argument.
FWIW, those skyscrapers into the clouds always seemed to me like gross overstatements that 'we can be like God" without giving Him the credit for the creative virtues He's given to man.
we need to cut them off anyways because theyre ugly and dehumanizing
I mean God's problem was man's self aggrandizement, pride and Self glory so I think it applies to anything man does with out God and it wouldn't rule out sky scrapers. In a modern sense it be NASA lol but we are under a different Covenant so when Christ returns He will judge righteously.
@@connordkrauss Don't worry, I was being entirely tongue-in-cheek. ; )
So, after eating some humble pie (I have not gone through the Bible since I moved so I'm beyond rusty) where I attributed the tower to Nimrod and then reading Chapter 11 and wanting more insight I found your video. Fantastic commentary, so I'm very grateful for your video. I know there are some details we wont know in this life but I'm reminded ONCE AGAIN to stay humble because we are prone to error and we need his word daily and we need study like our next breath...it's THAT vital!
Excellent video, we just discussed Gen 11 today in our fellowship gathering. Babel is so misunderstood in modern Christianity. If people realized the dramatic regathering of the disinherited nations from Gen 11 that occurs in Acts 2 at Pentecost, they would never read the NT again the same way. The good news of the Gospel is that those “called not my people” would once again be called “my people” - the crushing of the serpent and the reclaiming of all nations to become God’s inheritance through Abraham’s seed (singular)....its amazing. The Gospel is such good news and the story of the Bible is amazing when you understand the ANE and Hebrew literary style and how they wrote polemically against pagans. Simply amazing inspired Word of God...breathed for us, as life, just as Adam had life breathed into him and just like Jesus entered amongst his disciples and breathed on them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. Glorious! Hallelujah to the One YHWH who alone is worthy.
Good on you Michael, you are a beacon of intellect among the Christians in this age. God bless you brother.
Thank you, this part really seemed odd to me but it all makes sense now. May my Lord Jesus Christ bless you for your help.
As a dedicated nerd I'm obligated to say that there's probably a Stargate on top of that tower or it's maybe a landing pad for a flying pyramid.
I definitely feel like there was a landing pad 👌🏼
Seem like it was some way they knew about calling on Celestials because soon after that, it’s post Flood Nephilim meaning Celestials were back being worshipped and making babies with Earth Women.
“I’m not saying it was aliens…..”
It was nothing major at the top, just a temple where children were raped, tortured, and murdered in sacrifice to satan.
@@alleyesopen7776 You say with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
Nice video IP!!
This gives me the creeps. Thank God for his grace in Jesus’ name
@Umbuko DaJuko over every type of sin there’s some sort of demonic power over it just as the bible puts it:
Ephesians 6:12- For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Archeology certainly supports the story of Babel. The first large buildings WERE built in Sumeria where civilization is thought to originate. There was no stone to build with so they made bricks. I truly enjoy your videos, I appreciate that you go back to the orginal Hebrew for your interpretation of each verse. Genesis is probably my favorite book of Old Testament
Lmao! In Jesus name ur a fool
@@ricomartinez6145 Jesus loves you brother!
@@citrus4419 he can love me all he wants all I know is I don't and you don't need to go through him to reach the kingdom of God! You are already in the kingdom of God 🙆♂️
Thank you for all your hard work, this series (and your other work) is a real blessing!!
You know, I was expecting you to tell us how the Tower of Babel wasn't a literal building at all. I feel like I was slapped with a history book.
It wasn't real till the Babylonians gave it function ;)
Tower of Babel...to Babel is to speak...hmm a bldg having to do with speech....perhaps a ..library of sorts?
@@philosophiamourningstar9424 Sumerian, Akkadian & Assyrian kings followed the pattern of Enmerkar of Uruk, who decreed (in a cuneiform tablet to the Lord of Aratta) that international trade would be conducted in one language. The decree was issued from "the great mountain".
@@differous01 I didn't know that, very interesting, especially seeing that ALL our Legal Documents and contracts like to throw those LATIN words in there
@@philosophiamourningstar9424 The reason the English dictionary is twice as thick as that of most other languages is that Merrie England absorbed the 'lingua franca' of the Church and, later, our Norman-French lords. The Babel curse is ongoing, regardless of Silicon Valley's efforts to decree what may be said.
Super!!! I had been waiting this video or a long time. Thank You!
I get so excited when I see a little blue dot alongside InspiringPhilosphy in my subscriptions. I just know the video will be something that makes me see passages in the Bible in a way I never thought of before. If the video is on a topic like, the mind I just think how does IP have the knowledge and understanding to even research this stuff. I, on a Sunday night, look at my math homework and think I do not even know where to start.
@@barrystephan2378 Are you making an argument from authority? I have read many different interpretations of many passages of the Bible, the more the better as the texts are being thoroughly investigated from different angles. I class IP very highly indeed in no small part because he doesn't necessarily follow the mainstream. Keep in mind I could disagree with IP on a particular reading of a passage, but that in no way would degrade IP in my assessment of him since he isn't God but a loved brother in Christ who is without a doubt very smart indeed, Christianity is all the better for having very smart guys like IP and even blonds who are totally useless at math.
Learn to give credit where credit is due, it's all too easy to criticise and find an 'expert' who agrees with you. The secret is to find one that doesn't so that you don't become closed-minded.
@@barrystephan2378 _"“and even blonds who are totally useless at math” could you elaborate on this point? I agree that IP has taken a closer look at these subjects than most. Yet he’s not correct on a lot of what he says about the Bible, and I think Christians would be better off with more mature Christians like Pete Enns (who is also a bible scholar) who don’t constantly attempt to rewrite the most common academic interpretation of a religious book when it conflicts with their beliefs."_
No, you are making the same mistake. Christianity would be better off with both.
I listen to John MacArthur who is a Calvinist, Sam Shamoun who is a Catholic leaning middle eastern orthodox Christian and Mick Winger, who I do not know what he is, then, I worship at my evangelical church on Sunday, holding all the possible conflicting views I have heard in the week without any problem since they all really teach the same, but come from different angles. I like Sam Shamoun too he has spent the week trying to teach those watching that Mary was a Perpetual Virgin. He makes a good case, but those who claim Mary wasn't a perpetual virgin make a good case too. I could be persuaded she was or wasn't. I do not see it as something to fall out over, neither do I see it as something that would stop me from worshipping with those who were convinced one way or the other. Because I disagreed with someone on one thing wouldn't mean they became untrustworthy on all things.
I would ultimately go with what my dad said, who isn't a Pastor/ Biblical scholar, but simply My dad, who has invested the most in me (his life) and like all teen girls, my dad is my hero.
I do not think IP is rewriting church doctrine I think he is putting out a white paper for your scholar to critique and for those like me to consider. The church is under demonic attack, IP isn't the enemy but the front line troops and so is Pete Enns I bet. send me a link to your favourite video of his I will check him out.
@@barrystephan2378 _"I mean, he has a whole series on trying to rectify biblical contradictions... why?"_
To rectify the supposedly Bible contradictions.
_"What is with the laser focus on such insignificant details? Christians need to be mature and recognize that the Bible was written by fallible humans and that there are errors in the Bible."_
Is that what Bart told you?
_"Christianity can still be true, but they need to give up the empty apologetics and it is so obvious what their motive is when they do it."_
Well, I think they are more credible than you. So how can we resolve that?
_"If a father tells his five-year-old to write down something great that the father did and it is not written perfectly, that does not mean that the father did not do something great."_
You would have to define great, and not perfectly. if my dad dictated a great poem to me when I was 5 and I didn't write it perfectly someone would have to interpret what a five-year-old meant by her incoherent words. perhaps we could ask IP?
_"This is the greatest problem plaguing so many Christians, they go crazy about the Bible needing to be perfect.
"_
I think you talk in contradictory terms. It isn't necessarily errors but the interpretation. Just because I can't come to the same conclusion of a passage in the bible as someone else doesn't mean there is an error, it could mean I haven't read the passage in context, or the five-year-old hasn't got the mental capacity at that time.
You or I could produce a bible that was totally corrupted. But our bible would have to sit alongside other bibles that were plainly nothing like ours and ours wouldn't reflect the manuscripts.
What you are telling me is that you think there are errors that should not be rationalised, other than we go with what you want, which is just go with, others weren't as accepting of the errors as you.
I do not accept that, I do accept I may not be able to explain the perceived errors, and I accept you do not want to resolve the perceived error. However, I am more than happy to let someone who has the intellect to have a go and let's check it out.
Are you a Muslim by any chance?
@@barrystephan2378 The church is always under attack that's why we must always be on guard ...one of this attacks is that the devil tries to bring conflict among brethrens...I agree with you @ @Sarah Clark just because you disagree with someone/something on something doesn't make everything pertaining to it rubbish
@@sarahclark5447 👍
Messing up everything I have been told. I love it, and thank you for all you do.
This is a GREAT video. I thank you for sharing. I've learned so much. New sub here.
Its amazing how much of my early childhood Christian education was just plain wrong and watered down. Starting my REAL walk with the Lord relatively recently, your channel has been a huge blessing.
Damn foreshadowing at it's finest in a way God is a poet and an artist.
IP, I really appreciate all the hard work & research you put into your presentations. This is one of my favorites, because you linked up what seem like disparate accounts of man's relationship to our LORD. The scales fell from my eyes when you said that Abram was tapped to lead those left behind from the dispersion. Now there will be a "flow" to my reading in Genesis. Thank you so much!
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The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
Yay
Mitchell C so is Jesus a prophet? Why are you not Muslim?
@@mitchellc4 u again
@@JavierMartinez-gd5dr
Jesus is the Son of God
The Messiah
A mighty prophet yes
All of those are Christian beliefs, why would I be a Muslim ?
Jesus HAS a God
Rom 15
6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Cor 11
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.
Eph 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Col 1
3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
1 Pet 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Rev 1
6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Appreciate your effort man! Commenting before watching😁 ‘cause I know how much effort you take to make your videos.
Coincidence, I think not, I was about to search for a video for my kids in sunday class about Babel and boom I got a video about it, thanks God
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
An excellent video to finish an excellent series. Good job IP
Awesome stuff IP. Are you planning to do the entire book of Genesis? Keep up the good work man! God bless.
Superbe enseignement. Avec de belles explications sur le mode de vie dans l'Antiquité. Je suis très content d'avoir trouvé cette vidéo. Surtout que le Seigneur m'a dit par 2 fois :"Tour de Babel" ces derniers jours. Et j'avais vraiment besoin de comprendre le rapport entre les temps que nous vivons en 2020 et la tour de Babel qui date de temps très anciens.
Encore merci pour cette vidéo ! 👍
Que la grâce de Dieu vous accompagne !
Who’s the Guy that clicks the thumbs down button before the video even starts? Why?
Because hoes mad
It's InspiringPhilosophy himself. He does it keep himself humble. True story.
@@holysmokes4493 sounds like fake news
You mean a troll?
Mis-click. It happens.
Great work! May God bless you.
Excellent lesson! If a man has ears let him hear.
The most in-depth sharing of Genesis 11. I love the thoughts and researches that went into this video, especially the part on Mesopotamia and their view toward God and heaven. Thank you so much.
Tower of Babel was at Eridu. The first city and home of the worlds oldest and largest ziggurat. This ziggurat was never completed and abandoned for 3000 years... wonder why?
The ziggurat was dedicated to the god ENKI. Meaning Lord of the Earth ( a title Jesus gave Satan)
ENKI was also the lord of the abyss and taught forbidden wisdom to mankind in the sumerian mythology.
I think ENKI is the serpent, and the people were punished for building a temple to satan
I believe you may be correct.
@@samesaw Yup👍🙂
amazing simply amazing good thoughts a lot of times when such things are spoken people aswum its devil worship but its not
@@jamespoff8632 what do people think is devil worship? reading mythology?
I use it as a tool to reconstruct my faith. Its like how a detective solves a case. They gather all the evidence and eye witness accounts and review it all to piece together what really happened.
Deutoronomy 32:8 talks about how at babel God divorces the world as their God. Then assigns his sons of god.. lower g gods or elohim as rulers and gods of these nations. This is how paganism started. They were supposed to help humanity, but evidence from psalm 82 proves they became corrupt and made the people worship them instead.
The enuma elish and eridu genesis claim the annunaki came from Mount Hermon. Genesis 6 implies the mountain the sons of god decended on was mount hermon. Why?
because they always replicate the creator. Eden was a mountain garden. A mount of assembly where divine council meetings took place with spirit beings and humanity.
Babel was a man made looking mountain, wanting to create a divine assembly and holy mountain of their own.
Mount Hermon was the divine assembly meeting place for these fallen angels where they made a pact to take human wives.
If you look at the history of mount hermon, you will find a number of pagan temples on it, as well as the grotto of pan.. the roman goat god of debauchery and sex.
The head angel to have decended was Azazel.. a goat god.
funnily enough, there is also a united nations base at the top of the mountain. Another modern day mount of assembly.
This is also where the transfiguration of Christ took place.
@@redpilledtrooper7523 a lot of knowledge you have there and i praise you for it. .What i was talking about are those who chose to do harm unto others by sacrifice
You gotta make a video about the best bible commentaries that you have found!!!!
Good video, IP!
There are some other interesting angles to how the Tower of Babel story is related in the Bible. For instance, there is a play on words when the people at Babel say "Let us make a name for ourselves."
The word for "name" in Hebrew is "shem," which is also the name of the son of Noah who had the divine blessing. If you go back a chapter, you see that Babel was built by Nimrod, a Hamite. So when the people say "Let us make a name/Shem for ourselves," the text is communicating a double meaning. It means that they are seeking personal fame and glory, of course, but also that they are Hamites trying appropriate the divine blessing of Shem through their own effort.
This ties in very nicely with the points you made that they are trying to get God to "come down" through their own power. And of course there's a double-meaning there too. They do get God to "come down," but He does it on His own terms and for His own purposes, which are antithetical to what they were trying to manipulate him into doing.
Also, notice that in Genesis 10, Babel is said to be the first of several cities that Nimrod built, and the beginning of his kingdom. In other words, he was building an empire, and Babel was that empire's beginning and power center. This puts Genesis 11 in perspective, and explains the people's fears of "being scattered over the face of the earth." The process described in Genesis 10 was underway, where the descendants of Noah's sons were spreading out around the land, and beginning to form their own different tongues. The people of Babel sought to halt that process by building an empire that would keep the (known) world united under a single language, which they hoped to do by appropriating divine power.
And just as God inverted the purpose of the tower by "coming down" in a way that was antithetical to what the people of Babel intended, so He inverted the purpose of their city and empire by using the occasion to confuse their speech, thereby changing it from a means of preventing the natural division of language to a means of *accelerating* it.
So, this is what Deut 32: 8-9 is referring to? Thanks
So why does the text say that god so fearful of humans potential time and time again 😑
Thanks for the meaning of name of Shem. I learned a lot
I love this. Bless the makers of this video.
this kind of makes the Old Testament seem like a modern day diss track against the Babylonians, and I love it!
A lot of the old testament kind of reads like a distrack imho. Lol
It was explained to me that Moses wrote the beginning Genesis as a direct response to wrong ideas of that time about creation and the flood.
1:08 This is the next verse, but the previous time the word "Erets (Earth, land) was used is in the verse immediately preceding, at the end of chapter 10. So contextually it makes sense to say this meant all the people of Earth went to Shinar.
The most common form of idolatry: remaking God in your image
Tower of babel story :) this reminds me of the many various languages in existence today. ☺️☺️🎁🗺️🕊️🙏
Very good presentation & interesting food for thought. The only down side was the hypnotic New Age background music which almost put me to sleep
oh shut up, if your mind is that weak that it gets caught up on that then maybe you need to strengthen your mind
Good vid! I love when you explain the history!
I enjoyed this. Always struggled to understand and it makes more sense now. Thanks!
Really awesome stuff here IP! Gotta say, this is a rather interesting interpretation of the Babel Narrative
Originally I assumed the Tower was a sort of monument to idolizing human greatness and ingenuity, while also creating a culture where humans are "as gods", and are able to decide good and evil on their own terms (like the Garden).
THANK YOU! This was THE last big puzzle piece that was giving me a lot of trouble with having a comprehensive model for interpreting Biblical history and secular archeological claims on human origins concordantly. I've concluded Old Earth and Old Humanity is right and without the bounds of Biblical interpretation, but I was so stuck on Babel. If the events at Babel were punishment for failure to disperse, yet humanity had largely dispersed already by the 4000 BC, then it makes no sense! And due to the "fired bricks" I couldn't move Babel back in time to a point before humanity dispersed. Looking at Babel as a local event while other languages already existed far away and looking at it as punishment for distorting God rather than failing to disperse solve that problem.
Your videos have helped with a number of other apologetics issues that kept me up at night to. Thank you!
I feel like there should be a 20-second or 30-second slow mode for the live chats, just to encourage the people to pay attention and not get distracted by trolls. That might not work and I could be wrong but that is just my recommendation
9/10 video anyways!
Big up brother in this remarkable insights of ancient Biblical interpretations. We really need expository preaching, where the Bible interpreted in its context. It just beautiful and juicy, the beauty of Scriptures. The Word of God is marvelous, beautiful. We thank our Lord God for His Word. Grace and peace
Hey IP, what do you think of Dr. Hugh Ross' work? Do you agree with him?
Awesome video as always
Thank you for not villainizing Nimrod or influencing blame and hatred towards Hamites during your explanation.
Great job.
What we don't like in the bible, we simply don't interprete it literally, and try to concort another meaning for it, but what we do like, we take that literally. Got it 👍
What?
This is wrong.
Congratulations on 160k subs!
And IP said it was finished (in reference to the Genesis series)
He's resurrecting it ;)
@L LawlietLooking forward to it my friend!
Roll Tide
@@johnglaze7483 Roll Tide
What happened at Babel was our brain got split. Before babel we were living a Utopian society. We spoke One language through out the earth, this means we were united. We were getting ready to go home. The eternal realm is our True home. The devil who created a Title for himself-god divided us. Since then till now we have been ruling over and killing each other. "The Gnostic Truth, Unity vs Division". ua-cam.com/video/Upks5oLN1mY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=AWikkedMoon
Enjoyed this video/teaching! Keep up the good work😀👍
You are truly blessed by GOD amen
Fun fact: Warad-Sin is the Sumerian version of Eri-Aku, aka Arioch of Genesis 14. Also, at 12:37 - 25 sheep daily for Anu is a TON. Considering from the Persepolis Fortification Tablets centuries later under Darius, royalty like princesses would get 1/3 of a sheep per month, 25 sheep daily means there were dozens if not hundreds of priests and other personnel. Not to mention the oxen, again daily. That's a huge amount when you consider it comparatively
I can’t help but feel that God’s rescue plan via Abraham starting at ch. 12 was intentional
EDIT: The original wasn't divided into chapters so it probably was not. Thanks for pointing that out Iosif
what do you mean?
@@SomeRandomDude000000 12 is a symbollic number repeated many times throughout the Bible. Some examples I can think off the top of my head would be: 12 apostles, 12 tribes of Israel, and humans living to 120 years (12x10).
With this in mind, the fact that the story of Israel starting on Ch. 12 seems intentional.
@@vaskaventi6840 The original Bible text didn't have any chapters. They were added later by Stephen Langton.
@@Iosif-qk9iz So much for that then.. lol
@@Iosif-qk9iz but Yah knows everything his outside of this 3 dimentional realm of time, he knows that will happen so he made moses write the otiot/paleo hebrew symbol words in order for the chapters and verses to coincide later on.
The problem with rejecting the old textual tradition is that all the near eastern religious perspectives you discussed come *after Babel*, so they could have reasonably attempted to "storm heaven" if they were thinking God was limited, and *then* once Babel happen, people realized they could not attempt to take heaven, so they intend to bring heaven down to them thus causing the religious culture of the region.
Fascinating. When you said "spread out" my mind's eye saw Larry, Moe, & Curly in Mesapotamian attire. High brow, n'cest pas?
I had a look at the "Biblical timeline" In Answersingenesis". Supposedly, Noah's flood happened 2348 BC, and the tower of Babel happened 2246 BC. So within 102 years the population increased from 8 to whatever is necessary to build a tower into the heaven. Doesn't seem very likely.
There’s probably a link between this and the epic of Gilgamesh
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
@@mitchellc4 Is it permissible to lie sometimes or totally prohibited and one must be punished by God for lying?
@J H Nimrod could have very well been Gilgamesh. Although nimrod is likely an archetype used to represent various larger than life Sumerian & Babylonian Kings
This is so brilliant! Keep up the good work 👍🏾
Come On Boys where almost to Abraham!
Almost
Very enlightening video! How easily myths develop and spread about God...
Babylon: Gateway of the gods!
Bible writers: More like Goo Goo Ga Ga of the gods.
F*** those false gods
Truly appreciated your study
Two dislikes already, let’s go.
why do people care about dislikes? they’re irrelevant
@Dave The Credible YEC?
Edit: just realized it’s young earth creationist
Incredible!! Learned so much :O just amazing. Keep it up! Next series on Abram?
Archaeology
@@InspiringPhilosophy That's exciting! My fiancee is really interested in studying that aspect of the Old Testament
@InspiringPhilosophy, Can you point out how you came to the conclusion that the straightforward reading of the text is wrong regarding the builders of the temple of Babel were afraid to be scattered? I don't read anything about the people then being afraid of being scattered in the text, so could you explain the link there? Thanks, just trying to see your reasoning.
I don't think he ever said that. But if you are trying to reduce the tower to a fear of being scattered, then you would have to ignore portions of the text.
The tower was a monument to their own ingenuity. They understood the cost of everything and the value of nothing, attempting to do outwardly and physically what can only be done metaphorically, inwardly and spiritually.
This channel has drifted from faith to Philosophy indeed. That's not a compliment.
What??
Huh? You need philosophy for faith?
To be precise this is exegesis and theology. I can't see any philosophy here really.
@@Joleyn-Joy It's like they completely lack any concept of what philosophy is. I wonder how they'd react to learning that Ecclesiastes is technically a work of philosophy...
@@HarujiSubayama or Jesus' words.. Paul? Hello??
it makes me think of what goes on in the present at CERN. our very own tower!
Puny ziggurat.. smh
Saaaad.
It would be great if videos like this will be translated. I find your channel very helpful and I want to show it to my family but they can't understand English very well
"If this town is just an apple. Then let me take a bite" /Michael Jackson
Great video and interesting interpretation. Thanks.
"Babel went beyond mere idolatry, it portrayed God as having needs" - and this is where Christianity came from lol. Jesus.
Christianity comes from Humans having need for a saviour not God
God has no needs this is why works cannot get you into heaven
1. Reread it. I was able to do it during the Sabbath observance (Matthew 24:20). The sin? Not observing Sabbath. The previous Cain and Abel comparison: controlling Temper, having patience, friendly competition, the 3 will perfect religious observance. 2. The sin was not about the construction of the Tower. The sin was their "imagination" and neglect of a day of rest to worship HaShem. 3. The "imagination" was a compounding of neglecting a day of observance and equating themselves to HaShem Elohim through constructing a tower not dedicated to him but themselves. 4. The Tower then became an idol in their minds. It was built with their hands but the imagination could also build idols. It was also a forecast of Nebuchadnezzar's idol of a man.
A lot of Bible versions say One or Same language. I disagree with your point saying that the interpretation is wrong. If the Bible says one language or same language then that's what it is. You can philosophize it but that be adding your interpretation to it.
1:10
@@Joleyn-Joy yes I heard that, he meant they spoke the same language just for that region though. That's why I still posted this comment. The Bible says "the whole world" or "All the people of the world"
@@victorrene3852 You sir have a phone call. Calls himself Phenomenology.
@@sarrok85 I should have listened to the whole point of the video. Which he shows the reasoning of the people of Babel and what they thought what God wanted.
@@sarrok85 you are wrong, I in no way live that way. Faith isn't feelings and being sensual or living by happenstance. We are commanded to worship God with all of our heart, strength, soul and MIND.
Fascinating stuff. Thank you for your research and fine work.