RE: Why did god only make exactly the number of talking animals that he needed?
March 23, 2017 at 10:49 am
(March 23, 2017 at 10:20 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I think the usual Christian view is that talking animals are like ventriloquist's dummies. Satan was speaking through the serpent and an angel was speaking through Balam's ass...I know, that doesn't sound right.
Of course, why punish the serpent instead of the ventriloquist?
Balaam was on a conversational basis with God. I can just imagine the donkey speaking and Balaam pointing at the sky and shouting, 'Ha! Saw your lips move!'
Boru
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