{"id":5776,"date":"2017-07-28T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:00:18","slug":"video-babel-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/video-babel-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Babel and religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babel. When we hear the word, most of us think of a tall tower or confusion of languages. But just what was going on at Babel? Was it just a large-scale building project? As this clip from <em>By This Name<\/em> reveals, it was actually an example of man&#8217;s religious efforts to please God.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5-L Man&#039;s Religious Efforts\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/130465986?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"no\">\u201cThe issue at stake wasn&#8217;t about following a religion. Rather, it was about trusting a person\u2013the LORD himself. It was not how hard one worked to win God&#8217;s favour, but whether someone trusted the LORD as one would trust a friend. It wasn&#8217;t about manipulating God to get your way, but having a personal friendship with the Creator of the universe. Trust was the issue.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<em>By This Name<\/em>, Page 113<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>By This Name<\/em> has a video component consisting of 66 clips in which author John R. Cross teaches key concepts during the chronological journey through the Bible. These short video clips include visual aids (like the Tabernacle, Passover, altar, etc.) to help bring clarity to the story. They also take the viewers to key sites in Israel, Egypt and Jordan to provide historical and geographical context. We present a selection of these video clips. All of them are included with <em>By This Name<\/em>, either on DVD or <a href=\"http:\/\/goodseed.com\/btn\/\">accessible online<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babel. When we hear the word, most of us think of a tall tower or confusion of languages. But just what was going on at Babel? Was it just a large-scale building project? As this clip from By This Name reveals, it was actually an example of man&#8217;s religious efforts to please God. \u201cThe issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/video-babel-and-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video: Babel and religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-this-name","category-by-this-name-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}