The giving of the Holy Spirit to witness of the saving grace of God at Pentecost was a sign to the apostate Jews not a sign of unity. You are applying rose colored glasses to the actual event. The tongues at Pentecost were heard in the ears of not the hearers in the tongues of the speakers. Tongues today based on a faulty understanding of 1 Cor is tongues in the mouth of the speaker and the hearers requiring interpretation.
Babel was judgment because of the evil in men's hearts. God used men of unknown languages to carry Israel into captivity when they became apostate. this is what the appearance of tongues at Pentecost and in Acts would have signaled to the Jews present. When Peter and Paul reported back to James and the others in Jerusalem they testified to the appearance of tongues to show that the Gentiles were receiving the same Holy Spirit as the Jews. Gentiles being added to the church was judgment of God on Israel because they denied their Messiah. Gentiles inherited the blessing God intended for Israel.
We are bound to bible history and it is centered on Israel not us Gentiles.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
do you understand how Christians are described as being one? the ONLY way they could ever possibly be so, is by the Holy Spirit who purposes to do the will of God within each believer
you are way off base and I hesitate to say it, but you almost seem to dismiss the Holy Spirit altogether except as you might see Him
enlightening you. only what you think is enlightment is confusion such as your tower of Babel theories
if you actually think, as you have been hinting at, that the Holy Spirit on Pentecost was some kind of judgement, as you say I have rose colored glasses on, then I conclude that your understanding has been darkened
we are not bound to an historical rendition of scripture
do you not know that the the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
and even now this is so
I begin to understand your opposition now better than I have before and I am sorry that you are so determined to prove God wrong
you do yourself harm in this crusade of yours