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Many of you are familiar with matters involving bussing and diversity, particularly as they relate to education. Parents in many communities are up in arms when they find out their children are to be bussed out of their community, or colleges admit students from other places and different walks of life for the sake of diversity, into bastions that have been long dominated by certain other groups. Or, people object to others moving into their communities. Such matters did not originate in the last century, rather, we see them in the book of Genesis.
In Genesis 11:5-9, God, upon seeing the building of the city of Babel, makes two decisions; first, he injects diversity into the inhabitants by ‘confusing their language,’ resulting in the creation of many languages. Then, he effectively busses many groups by dispersing them to other parts of the world. Unlike the protests involving bussing in recent times, we don’t know if the inhabitants protested their dispersal or not. We can infer that they accepted it as a matter of due course, as in what other choice did they have?
One may wonder why the breaking up of one language into many, followed by the dispersal, was necessary. One possible reason may go back to a Commandment God made in Genesis 1:26, in which he commands Adam and Eve to have dominion over the earth, with succeeding generations to “fill the earth.” Having seen that the succeeding generations were content to live in Babel instead of moving on, God forced their dispersion to fulfill that Commandment. Arguably, it is said that God created man to have a free will, but as we see here, and in Moses’ time, that that free will has its limits.
Interestingly, the rationale involving Genesis 1:26 isn’t made when God in Genesis 11 explains why the dispersal is necessary. Instead, He says in Verse 6 that left to their own devices, “nothing that [the people of Babel] propose to do will now be impossible for them.” Presumably, dispersing them would dilute their abilities.
Seems that, unless it was in accordance with God’s Plans to begin with, by reason of Romans 8:28, some people nowadays, from wherever they are, have the ability to destroy the earth no matter what their language or where they live.
Seems that at first glance, the dispersal is worse than the people just staying in Babylon. For ironically, because people were dispersed to difference lands, they found things they could share with eachother from the lands they lived in, resulting in a pooling of knowledge that created things like the atomic bomb and things that could disrupt the environment, that perhaps they wouldn’t have if they just stayed in Babel.
One might figure, perhaps, that it wasn’t God’s intent that the earth and its people last forever. One might get an inkling from this when it says in Revelation 6:14, “The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place,” followed later by Revelation 21 in which, in place of the earth as we know it, a New Earth appears from Heaven after the fall of everything denoted by the sins of what is symbolically referred to as Babylon, based on the Babylon whose destruction Jeremiah discusses in the book of the same name. Anyone that is left will have been judged to be righteous and therefore would share in the Bounty of the New Earth.
One cannot say that God is against things like diversity in language and people, and in things like busing. And, also taking into account that later on in Genesis, Jacob and his sons move to Egypt to escape the famine where they were, and then in Exodus in which God, instead of just destroying the Egyptians, gives the Hebrews a place of their own elsewhere, a feat which could be described as a form of bussing, which, like nowadays is met sometimes with protests by the people, the Hebrews would occupy and be met with hostility by the inhabitants, seems that God is against neither diversity or bussing but would be in favor of it. For that reason, aren’t jurisdictions to implement diversity and bussing really doing God’s Work in fulfillment of Romans 13:1?
In Genesis 11:5-9, God, upon seeing the building of the city of Babel, makes two decisions; first, he injects diversity into the inhabitants by ‘confusing their language,’ resulting in the creation of many languages. Then, he effectively busses many groups by dispersing them to other parts of the world. Unlike the protests involving bussing in recent times, we don’t know if the inhabitants protested their dispersal or not. We can infer that they accepted it as a matter of due course, as in what other choice did they have?
One may wonder why the breaking up of one language into many, followed by the dispersal, was necessary. One possible reason may go back to a Commandment God made in Genesis 1:26, in which he commands Adam and Eve to have dominion over the earth, with succeeding generations to “fill the earth.” Having seen that the succeeding generations were content to live in Babel instead of moving on, God forced their dispersion to fulfill that Commandment. Arguably, it is said that God created man to have a free will, but as we see here, and in Moses’ time, that that free will has its limits.
Interestingly, the rationale involving Genesis 1:26 isn’t made when God in Genesis 11 explains why the dispersal is necessary. Instead, He says in Verse 6 that left to their own devices, “nothing that [the people of Babel] propose to do will now be impossible for them.” Presumably, dispersing them would dilute their abilities.
Seems that, unless it was in accordance with God’s Plans to begin with, by reason of Romans 8:28, some people nowadays, from wherever they are, have the ability to destroy the earth no matter what their language or where they live.
Seems that at first glance, the dispersal is worse than the people just staying in Babylon. For ironically, because people were dispersed to difference lands, they found things they could share with eachother from the lands they lived in, resulting in a pooling of knowledge that created things like the atomic bomb and things that could disrupt the environment, that perhaps they wouldn’t have if they just stayed in Babel.
One might figure, perhaps, that it wasn’t God’s intent that the earth and its people last forever. One might get an inkling from this when it says in Revelation 6:14, “The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place,” followed later by Revelation 21 in which, in place of the earth as we know it, a New Earth appears from Heaven after the fall of everything denoted by the sins of what is symbolically referred to as Babylon, based on the Babylon whose destruction Jeremiah discusses in the book of the same name. Anyone that is left will have been judged to be righteous and therefore would share in the Bounty of the New Earth.
One cannot say that God is against things like diversity in language and people, and in things like busing. And, also taking into account that later on in Genesis, Jacob and his sons move to Egypt to escape the famine where they were, and then in Exodus in which God, instead of just destroying the Egyptians, gives the Hebrews a place of their own elsewhere, a feat which could be described as a form of bussing, which, like nowadays is met sometimes with protests by the people, the Hebrews would occupy and be met with hostility by the inhabitants, seems that God is against neither diversity or bussing but would be in favor of it. For that reason, aren’t jurisdictions to implement diversity and bussing really doing God’s Work in fulfillment of Romans 13:1?
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