Important Lessons From the Tower of Babel

In bible class yesterday Carley learned about the Tower of Babel. I think she might have missed part of the point of the story.

There is a lot of construction aroud our church building. When Carley was looking out the window and saw construction and said, "building does not make God happy. He does not want us to build". So Cody told her that they were building a really tall tower that God did not want them to build.

Then she looked at our church, which has a tall bell tower and said that our church does not make God happy because God doesn't like towers. We tried (to no avail) to argue with her, but it was ridiculous so we let it go. That afternoon she was watching part of Beauty and the Beast and saw the castle. Well that set her off again. "Belle makes God so said because she lives in a tower. God cries when he sees her tower". So I tried to tackle it again and told her the people were not obeying God and that was why he was sad. They were trying to build a tower all the way to Heaven, where God lives, and he told them not to do it. They disobeyed.

So then Carley said, "God does not want us to go to Heaven. It makes him so sad".

Then began another arguement with a three year old who had no idea what she was saying and I couldn't stop laughing.