Home Group Study Questions // Mar 9th
History Session 7: Come Let Us
Genesis 11:6: “This is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.”
[Read Genesis 11:1-9]
- What type of plans do we make without asking God for His direction?
- Genesis 1:28 and 9:1 are important scriptures to look at before we get into the detail of the Tower of Babel in chapter 11. Verses 1:28 and 9:1 state that God blessed them. What is the blessing connected with those verses?
- What makes Genesis 1:27 important to consider when we are looking at 1:28? How do we fill the earth with the image of God? What does an earth filled with His image look like?
- Verses 9:1-3 describes the beginning of their plan to build a tower. “Come let us make bricks” seems like a simple type of activity. What is behind that short statement? In what ways do we try to control things by making our own plans?
- Verse 9:4 reveals more of their intent behind building the tower. What do the statements, “Come let us build” and “Let us make a name for ourselves” reveal about their intentions and their motives?
- The statement “a tower with its top in the heavens” adds to the heart that is behind this building project. What do all these intentions tell us about their ultimate goal?
- Verse 9:6 describes the future of what will happen if they continue down this path of self-determination. What problems could arise for them or for us if “nothing that [we] propose to do will now be impossible”? How have we, as a society or individually, already gone down that path?
- What is the result of God confusing their language? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? How does it fit with God’s original blessing from Genesis 1:28 and 9:1?
- Sometimes the most loving thing God can do, is stop us from doing what we want to do. Why would that be loving? When has God stopped you from doing things that would have been destructive to yourself?