10-16-2015, 07:32 AM
(10-15-2015, 11:35 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Where is God "being afraid of what man could accomplish" in the Bible?
The story of the Tower of Babel is one, in which, God shows his displeasure in what man thinks he can do. They think they can build a tower to heaven and become like God. He shows them how wrong they are. Not sure where he ever feared what they could do.
Quote:Genesis 11:
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
This seems to fly in the face of "free will". We are told he didn't interfere with Adam and Eve because of "free will", yet ironically he interjects himself in a futile and harmless attempt by men to build a skyscraper that stretches to the heavens.
The story seems bizarre because an all knowing God would already know the limits of man and if " free will" truly existed he would not have interfered. Otherwise, it seems man is only "free" to do the "will" of God.
