From Genesis 11, King James Version:
4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
I am asking for pastoral guidance on this matter. It occurs to me that God Himself confounded the common tongue of the time, and gave birth to all the languages.
Now we have American Sign Language, Esperanto, and others, that are the products of men, not God.
It seems inventing a language might be intruding upon the realm of God, and we might wish to forbid the practice and sanction those that are already practicing these forms of language.
I will reflect upon this matter, and perhaps we might seek clarification from our Godly Pastors here at Landover.
Thank you, and God Bless,
Oakland
4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
I am asking for pastoral guidance on this matter. It occurs to me that God Himself confounded the common tongue of the time, and gave birth to all the languages.
Now we have American Sign Language, Esperanto, and others, that are the products of men, not God.
It seems inventing a language might be intruding upon the realm of God, and we might wish to forbid the practice and sanction those that are already practicing these forms of language.
I will reflect upon this matter, and perhaps we might seek clarification from our Godly Pastors here at Landover.
Thank you, and God Bless,
Oakland
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