In the opening chapters of God’s word the pattern is set: His repeated offering of blessings by living in accord with His will being repeatedly rejected in favor of rebellion, sin, depravity, evil. This is the pattern set by our corporate parents; this is what is now bred into every human being born after them.
In God’s most dramatic and precious gift to man—His own Son—man finally has the means by which he can have a relationship with his Maker. But until the day man loses the fallen flesh in which he was born, we still struggle against that flesh that calls us to go our own way, to set ourselves—just like the people of Babel—as the pinnacle of fame and importance.
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