Nimrod

Government Begins

By Paul Green

Actually, the state was  indeed first instituted around that time… However, that first government was not created by God at all but, according to Genesis 10:8-10, by a tyrant called Nimrod, who:

“began to be a mighty one in the earth. … the beginning of his kingdom was Babel”

According to Genesis 11, the idea of his followers was to directly challenge God by first instituting a monumental, massive public works project as the focus for a “glorious” centralised society. The “Tower of Babel” was a vain attempt to reach heaven:

“And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top [is] in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Nimrod was therefore the first to introduce central planning and to block freedom of movement, expansion and settlement through independent homesteading and private land ownership. In doing so, he set the pattern for governments to follow by deifying themselves and claiming omnipotence over the affairs and labour of others through centralized power.
Josephus, the Jewish/Christian/Roman historian also added some detail. By drawing from ancient tradition and history, he wrote that Nimrod, ...
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