Lessie Newbigin’s book A Walk through the Bible goes through the most important stories of the Bible and adds context to the situations of the readers of the Bible at the time it gained cultural fame. Newbigin’s book relates the biblical stories to the hardships it’s reader would have been experience, giving cause for the reason as to which the Bible is considered a guidebook on how to live a good moral life and a solicice for those who believe that incapable of ever achieving such a life. The Bible is not about the stories themselves, but the lessons the subjects of the stories learn after the fact.
In chapter 2, the creation of the Tower of Babylon is told to the reader as the weakness of men’s ability to trust in their God and inability to exist in their status, which is one of being lesser than God. They build the tower to learn what the world is like from God’s eyes, which then leads to God’s decision to begin again on Earth. Newbigin highlights that the lesson you should take away from learning about the Tower of Babylon is that you must find contentment in your life and not to life a wanting dissatisfied life.
Foundations of Theology 