It is only from the Scriptures we learn the true origin of the different nations and languages of the world. By one miracle of tongues men were dispersed and gradually fell from true religion. Homiletics Online, 1992. At Religion Online . The pretensions of human cultures and civilisations are the natural consequence of a profound and ineradicable difficulty in all human spirituality.
Man is mortal.
That is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. This is one of the strongest affirmations in Scripture that God, and his purposes in the world, is the only adequate center of unity in the human family. Any other attempt at unity will only end in confusion.