Patriarchs & Prophets: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 10

The Tower of Babel

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/QmZw9szsXz4?list=PL4ByrircmXL6VuLmlYnLfeCfCukv68cCu

The men of Babel had determined to establish a government that should be independent of God. 
The monument to their pride became the memorial of their folly. Yet men are continually pursuing the same course--depending upon self, and rejecting God's law.....In the professedly Christian world

many turn away from the plain teachings of the Bible and build up a creed from human speculations and pleasing fables, and they point to their tower as a way to climb up to heaven.
Men hang with admiration upon the lips of eloquence while it teaches that *the transgressor shall not die, *that salvation may be secured without obedience to the law of God.
If the professed followers of Christ would accept God's standard, it would bring them into unity; but so long as human wisdom is exalted above His Holy Word, there will be divisions and dissension. The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon,"...
As a rule, children inherit the dispositions and tendencies of their parents, and imitate their example; so that the sins of the parents are practiced by the children from generation to generation.
One sinner destroyeth much good. Ecclesiastes 9:18