This series “The Tower of Babel” is part of the Section “God and Man Learning to Work Together – The Journey Begins” and consists of fourteen posts. The series proposes new explanations for why God destroyed the Tower of Babel.

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The previous post, Number 12 of 14, discussed the question of why God destroyed the Tower of Babel yet allowed Patriarchs, such as Jacob, to erect towers.

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This post, Number 13 of 14, is the first of two posts discussing the destruction of the Tower of Babel in relation to God interfering with man’s free will.

1. Destroying the Tower of Babel interfered with the free will of the builders

1. A. Benefits of multiple languages outweigh the benefits of a single language

Destroying the tower would appear to be God interfering with man’s exercise of his free will. However, if the damage to diversity, and the concomitant damage to man’s use of his imagination, are considered, it can be concluded that the potential damage to man’s imagination by a single language outweighed the slight interference with man’s free will which destruction of the tower represented. Thus, on balance, the destruction of the tower was the better choice with regard to mankind as a whole.

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The next post, Number 14 of 14, is the second of two posts discussing the destruction of the Tower of Babel in relation to God interfering with man’s free will.