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he story of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9) suggests an important and timely question. Ba-
bel was an attempt to preserve the original oneness of mankind. But in mans
fallen state it resulted in an arrogant self-suciency which challenged or ignored the
authority of God. It was totalitarianism. To prevent this arrogance from achieving its
goal, God scattered the peoples and confounded the tongues. Division and separation
were necessary to prevent godless and tyrannical centralization of power in a super-
state. Christianity is a truly unifying force, which transcends the barriers of nation,
race, language, and temperament. But only Christianity can prevent the super-state
from becoming a tyranny such as the world has never known, with a concentration of
power in the hands of the few which would reduce the many to utter slavery. We may
well question whether the forces of evil, of selshness, of cruelty, being as strong as
they are, a super-state, could it be achieved, would be really desirable. One thing is
certain: the League of Nations, the United Nations, and similar union movements
in State and in Church may lead, and inevitably will lead, to the enslavement rather
than the liberation of mankind, unless they are pervaded by Christian principles
which recognize and safeguard the rights of men everywhere to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of true happiness, under a government which recognizes that God alone is
Lord of the conscience, and that we must obey God rather than men, Oswarld T.
Allis, pg. 29, God Spake By Moses, P & R Publishing, 1958.
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