Genesis 11 Babel and the confused languages

   Good morning, another Saturday for all of us to enjoy! I finished rebuilding that carburetor on my old truck yesterday and will install it today and try to work out the kinks with all the adjustments. It was a big mess with at least a hundred parts to clean (in some cases, soda blast). If that wasn’t bad enough, the rebuild kit was for several models, so there were far more new parts and gaskets than were being used on this model. (Oh, and why include the parts for all the vacuum controls, those diaphragms will be fine after forty years LOL). The other part was that the instructions were unclear; it was more of an exploded view and not much else. The pictures I took as I disassembled it were more helpful than anything else! I even had a YouTube video for some of it, but it was just from someone struggling and confused as I was! Many people end up buying a new Chinese carburetor with mixed results on quality. But there is one quality version too from Webber (the racing carb company), but it is four hundred dollars, so I will try the 35-dollar carb kit first! Why does everything have to be so difficult and confusing?   

   At least all the videos and instructions were in English, hey, that makes me think of Today’s Daily Bible Challenge, in chapter 11 of Genesis, where God confused the languages of the People living in Babel as they were living in a prideful way. Building a tower into the heavens to raise themselves up as gods. I hope my old truck doesn’t end up being a Tower of Babel in my life (AKA an idol). It is interesting to me how God used this confusion in Babel to scatter people into groups around the earth. This will not be the last time God uses calamity to scatter people who are congregating for bad motives. There is some good background study on this at gotquestions.org  ( just search Genesis 11: “What happened at the Tower of Babel”). 

   Talk with you soon!


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