Sermon Tone Analysis

Genesis 11:10-32

Paganism

Paganism is the ancestral religion of the whole of humanity (Pagan Federation).

Paganism believes that there are many ways to experience Divinity, specifically through direct or personal revelation.

Paganism can hold to the belief of many gods (pluralist), or one god (monolithic), with worship focusing on nature with no particular dogma for proper worship.

The result of this belief is usually pantheism, or the idea that everything is God, especially when all things are complete.

The lineage of Shem

Several names refer to the various gods and goddess that are found throughout the Old Testament

Haran means Half-way

Sarai means princess

The land of Ur

Home to astrology and astronomy

Wealthy and very intelligent

Technological

Polity

A democracy, a government of and by the majority, transitioning to a monarchy and dictator

Prophecy

The revealing of an outcome or consequence of a decision made during circumstances or situations presented through tests, trials, or tribulations.

A statement made on behalf of Yahweh describing His plan with an outcome.

A warning to turn away from an action that is contrary to the Laws of God and the Laws of Nature.

Providence

The word “providence” derives from the Latin providentia, the noun from the verb providere “take thought for,” “look ahead.”

The Greek equivalent is pronoia, from the verb pronoeisthai, having more or less the same meaning.

As a philosophical or religious concept, Providence denotes the care of God for his creatures, “God” standing for a personal, sentient first principle.

The requirement that providence stem from a personal agent might seem absolute, but in fact, among the Greeks, the Stoic philosophers adopted the concept of pronoia to describe the rational ordering of the universe emanating from a first principle which they designated as theos, “God” but which they conceived of simply as the immanent active principle of the universe.

John M. Dillon, “Providence,” ed.

David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 520.