Babel

Babel is the first incident of an organized religion recorded in the Bible. Babel, or what became known as Babylon, is often used in Scripture as an example of man's religious efforts.

Did you know that? Did you also know that today is the first day of Ramadan? Ramadan (Arabic: رمضان‎ Ramaḍān, Arabic pronunciation: [rɑmɑdˤɑːn]) (also Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, Ramdan, Ramadaan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset.[1] Fasting is intended to teach Muslims about patience, humility and spirituality and is a time for Muslims to fast for the sake of God (Arabic: الله‎, trans: Allah) and to offer more prayer than usual. During Ramadan, Muslims ask forgiveness for past sins, pray for guidance and help in refraining from everyday evils, and try to purify themselves through self-restraint and good deeds. As compared to the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards about ten days each year depending on the moon. Muslims believe Ramadan to be the month in which the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

The Stranger book tells us that a good definition of the word religion is this: Man's efforts to reach God. Man, by nature, tends to be very religious. He is constantly searching for or creating new ways to find God. But it's a hopeless pursuit! Mankind is LOST and cannot find his way back to God on his own. Man can neither get rid of his sin nor find adequate righteousness to make himself acceptable to the LORD.

That is why Christianity is not a religion. The Bible teaches that the only true way to God was provided by the LORD himself, when, in his mercy, he reached down to man and provided man with a way to escape the punishment for sin. It is God who rescues us. He's the Savior. The Bible makes it clear that it is the LORD who...
...devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.
2 Samuel 14:14

Did you know the word babel means confusion? this world seems very confused, doesn't it?