Around 1000 BC, the ancient Greek poet and writer Homer wrote a rather fantastic story
describing a great war between the Greeks and a powerful city called Troy.
For many centuries, this story was considered a myth, or legend, until a German explorer
named Heinrich Schliemann, who was captivated by Homer's story, began a search for the ancient city.
In the late 19th century Schliemann discovered the site of Troy.
Ancient legend became an historical fact, now let me turn your attention to the Tower of Babel.
The story of the Tower of Babel has captivated the imagination of mankind for millennia.
It describes a time when all mankind was living in close proximity and speaking one common
language.
This unity gave them the potential to achieve almost anything they would desire to do.
The record goes on to explain that mankind had largely fallen under the sway of a despotic
leader named Nimrod, who was attempting to defy God's will for man.
He began to gather people into a great city, which included a grand structure designed
to protect man from the wrath of God.
To thwart the tyrant?s evil plan, God, by a miracle, divided the people into different
linguistic groups, and scattered the people to various regions around the globe.
Rather than dismiss the biblical story in Genesis as a myth, consider the following
historical records:
A clay tablet that long predates the Bible was found in southern Sumer.
In 1968 a translation of the message was published in The Journal of the American Oriental Society.
This is not the only such ancient record that is not connected with the Bible.
In 1875, a great archeologist and explorer for the British Museum, George Smith, translated
another Chaldean tablet, likely inscribed about 1800 BC.
It is published in a book called The Chaldean Account of Genesis.
In the days immediately following the Spanish conquest, an Aztec chief named Ixtlilxochitl,
recounted much of their history to a Spanish priest, himself an historian.
The priest, named Duran, wrote an account found in a text entitled Historia Antigua
de la Nueva Espana, in 1585:
Fernando Ixtlilxochitl also related another account, part of a collection of an anthology
called Ixtlilxochitl Relations.
These were included in a book compiled by the Englishman Lord Kingsborough, entitled,
Antiquities of Mexico.
Clearly this story, of an attempt to build a society opposed to the will of God, resulting
in the division of mankind through the creation of different languages, is present in cultures
far removed from one another in both distance and time.
As our German archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann reasoned, if a legend exists in multiple sources,
behind that legend there must be a truth.
The account of the tower of Babel is recognized by peoples who knew nothing of the Bible and
who had likely never met a Hebrew, yet maintained a tradition that supports the Biblical record.
We should be cautious lest we, as those who totally dismissed Homer's story of Troy, make
the same error when considering the accounts of the Bible.
If you like this video please like, comment and subscribe.
And for more content like this please visit our website www.tomorrowsworldviewpoint.org