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Is God the author of confusion?

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"Is God the author of confusion?" (Alleged Contradiction #E7020)
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:7-9

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.

I Corinthians 1:27-29

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

I Corinthians 14:33

Response

The Bible says God is not the author of confusion.  God changed the languages of the men at Babel to force them to split up: the intent was not to confuse for the sake of confusing.  I Corinthians 1:27-29 says God confounds the wise, not necessarily the same as confusing them (God also confounded the language at Babel).

Yes, God can confuse the camp of the unsaved to limit their wickedness (for instance, Genesis 19:11, or Exodus 14:24-25, II Chronicles 18:21).  However, this is merely a “defensive” strategy, so to speak, in response to man’s actions.  God destroys the plans of the wicked to protect others, not for the sake of destroying, and so in this sense, he is not the “author” of confusion.

For instance, if an enemy fighter jet approached our borders and the government shot it down defensively, this does not make the government the author of death and destruction, because it is attempting to actually preserve life by defending our borders.  The enemy fighter jet would be the “author” of death and destruction, and our government would merely be acting defensively.  Likewise, evil people are the authors of confusion, and when God confuses their plans, He is doing it defensively (so to speak) to protect others, and so actually, this makes Him the author of life and peace.


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