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Article: Undoing Babel: today's technology can lead to a clearer understanding of the Christian faith.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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In the book of Genesis, the story of the Tower of Babel describes the Great Dispersal of God's people to the ends of the earth. Displeased by the pride people demonstrated in building a tower to reach heaven, God scattered them and confused their speech.
At the end of Matthew's gospel, Jesus tells the disciples to go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them and training them to live by his teachings. Today, a technology makes it possible to overcome the barriers of Babel and to fulfil Jesus' Great Commission to his followers.
This technology has helped to standardize languages, to increase the opportunities for learning how to read and to ...