Well, do human technologies threaten God's sovereign reign over humanity?

This timely question is raised by Genesis.

And the question fittingly arrives from a podcast listener named Noah.

Noah writes and asks this, Hello Pastor John, in Genesis 11, verses 1 to 9, we are told

that God confused man's common language into a bunch of different languages in order to

thwart human progress.

It sounds like God who was infinite was threatened by the unity of finite creatures.

But how could God ever be threatened by anything man could do, even the whole of humanity

united in any endeavor?

And is he threatened by our far superior technological advances today?

This has never made sense to me, can you explain it?

Before I try to answer that question, let's get the story in front of us.

It's a really interesting story.

And let's see if it raises the questions that Noah is raising.

Now the whole earth, this is Genesis 11, 1 to 6.

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

And as people migrated from the east, they found a plane in the land of Shinar and settled

there.

And they said to one another, come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.

And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.

And they said, come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens.

And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole

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