Questions an atheist friend wanted to ask part 2.

First of all, God did not throw a "hissy fit". God isn't a raving idiot who throws tantrums, that's a description of people.

Secondly, your friend isn't looking for answers. He's challenging you. It won't matter if he gets the perfect answer - he may not accept it, but look for more of what he thinks are reasons to reject God.

Yes, God's primary way of communicating with us is his word. Yes, people argue over it. That's because people are untrustworthy in heart, thought, and deed. God is infallible - ergo, so is his word.

 

I don't have issues with the question but with the way the question is asked. Very accusatory.

With the word confusion, you are comparing apples and oranges. It's like saying, "He set the price of the tea set at $500 ." Two different words.

• In Genesis 11:7 in reference to Babel, the word confuse or confound in some versions, is the Hebrew word "balal". It means to mingle or to mix. God mingled and mixed the languages at Babel as to force the people into moving forth across the earth like he had commanded them to. They now had to segregate by language groups and disperse. Who knows what languages would be like if they had just obeyed God in the first place.

• In 1 Corinthians 14, the word confuse, as "God is not the author of confusion", is a Greek word, "akatastasia" meaning being is a state of disorder or disturbance or out of place.. The context of the whole chapter where that phrase is found is that too many people in the church were speaking at one time and Paul gave instructions on how to be orderly and take turns: those speaking in tongues, those prophesying [both men and women] , and women asking their husband questions.

So saying that God is not the author of confusion, yet he caused confusion at the Tower of Babel is not using the words correctly and drawing a supposition that is not true.