But if we pursue that interpretation, we could conclude that each of us should live alone and never speak with one another. More likely, the meaning of Babel was a reminder that man is not made of mind and material body alone. Man s creativity is not a terrible thing, except as Babel shows when mankind confuses itself by claiming to be its own Creator. Babel s citizens, so intent on creating, forgot the real Creator and his Creation. When material human things become disconnected from spiritual gratitude and acknowledgment, they lose their reason for being.
Life has spiritual purposes.
For God will bring every deed into judgment . Human creativity is God-given. Forgetting that and proclaiming self-sufficiency and infallibility is blasphemy. Babel was blasted for the blasphemy of men confusing the possession of God-given abilities with being God.