Its For Your Own Good- Genesis chapters 10-16

When all the people came together in the valley of Shinar they made an attempt to build “a city and a tower with its top in the sky.” (Genesis 11:4) At this time all the people of the world spoke the same language with the same vocabulary the same alphabet. God saw their attempt to create this obelisk and He decided it was better to stop their endeavor. He changed each of their languages confusing and scattering them throughout the world. Their progress halted and they were sent back to the beginning in which everyone now had their own culture with its own language. It divided the people and caused feuds between the people. When God scattered the world into groups, all with different languages, He did so for our own good. If they created this immense structure, man would have become arrogant and in their arrogance they would become corrupt and evil. This would eventually lead to our downfall or a war between proud people defending their own pride and nothing else. God kept His covenant with Noah and restrained himself from annihilating mankind as He had done before. Instead He separated us and caused our division. Many times parents tell their children things that are for their own good in the end. Most children have a different perspective and believe it is only against them and not possibly helping. If the parents had not done what they had the children might have been hurt or caused someone else to be hurt. This was the case for the tower of Babylon and God intervened for our own good.