That is the dogma.
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Bible & Critical Thinking
- Thread starter PoetPhilosopher
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Ok, so take us on the leap that will bring us home. How does animal communication suddenly jump to a fluency in a human language? There's nothing strange about that. It happens all the time. In fantasy land.
As you don't answer questions. Nice.
If there IS a God, can He do what man does? Is it in the realm of possibility?
Machine Translation | SYSTRAN Technologies
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I'm trying not to be overly expressive here, but:
Good lord.
Okay keep talking. Make your argument.
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
Maybe Balaam was like Aquaman but instead of talking to fish, he was able to talk to livestock.
InChrist
Free4ever
Yes.
Often it takes a lot of critical thinking, along with prayer and insight from the Holy Spirit, if one desires to get beyond superficial, surface reading and understand the point God is making in certain passages of the scriptures.
I do not understand what you are trying to say.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
Alright. If you can critical think, tell me the point.
Maybe you can explain his post to me.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I don't understand the language of it.
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
Guys, Balaam could have been adopted when he was a kid by a tribe of donkeys and because of that he grew up speaking donkey. See it all can be explained rationally.
sooda
Veteran Member
Yes what?
Critical thinking would lead you to another conclusion and some critical thinking on mythos and story telling. These fundamentalists are dumb as bloody dirt.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
Eh I'm starting to think this whole thread can be solved by a couple of drinks and an 8-hour gaming session.
After reading it over a couple of times and knowing that he likes a literal view of things, I guess he is saying that God used Systran translation software so that Donkey could be translated into a language that Balaam spoke.
Now a critical analysis that comes to a conclusion that Donkey can be translated to Balaam's language would have to establish that there is a language of the donkey that is of such a structure that it could be translated to a human language. I do not know of any language that an animal is supposed to use that could remotely be said to be similar to human languages. Maybe gibberish.
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
Maybe Balaam's dad was a donkey and his mom was human and that's why he can speak donkey. It could've happened, guys. See, simple rational apologetics about a guy and a talking donkey.
You are right. I have never considered the telepathic abilities of donkeys. That may be the case cracker.
Who are you so wise in the ways of science?
Looks like a hamster wheel in full tilt. I smell something burning.
When you think you are wealthy because you are a Christian and poor people are poor because their faith is weak or they want to be poor, a person has pretty much pitched critical thinking right out of the window.
Animals have languages and God is able to translate it into an understanding in the mind of a man.
No different than a man figuring out what the dog wanted:
Stange dog wants the police to come to his house – one glance at the balcony and he quickly calls 911
The only difference is that the policeman didn't get the verbal translation, just the understanding of the dog's actions.