Dr Paul Allen

Genesis 11:7 – “Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” The Babylonian intent in their attempt at their sovereign secular kingdom was to have sufficient power to do as they pleased by uniting together and defending themselves from everyone else. God rightly viewed this centralization of power in the hands of proud sinners apart from Him as a dangerous thing and saved them from themselves and saved others from the potential abuses of power by simply scattering them and confusing their languages.  Ironically, this scattering of the people and confusion of the languages were two of the primary things these people were seeking to prevent from happening in the first place. The name Babel, or Babylon, is humorously akin to our English word babble, which is what their communication sounded like once God confused their language. Beautifully, on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 through the power of the Holy Spirit, the gift...

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Image via Wikipedia “ Honor your father and your mother , that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” -  Exodus 20:12 Negative commands in any law code tell people what not to do, while positive commands describe how they must live as citizens.  As an elaboration of the basic code of the kingdom of heaven (love of God and neighbor), the Ten Commandments include both positive and negative laws.  The fifth commandment is a positive command — we are ordered to honor both father and mother ( Ex. 20:12 ). When we consider the fifth commandment and what it is designed to accomplish, we see that it has benefits for both parents and children.  Scripture recognizes the family as the basic building block of a well-functioning society, using it as a metaphor for the covenant community when it speaks of one’s brothers and sisters and of the adoption we enjoy as children of God ( Deut. 10:9 ;  Rom. 8:15 ).  Families where...