(April 26, 2023 at 1:58 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(April 26, 2023 at 5:15 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I won't quibble with you over the word 'speak'. But your earlier post indicates that you think dreams are a way of God communicating with us. If so, why would God show us our enemy and then have us interpret that as a dog? It seems as if this sort of wonky interpretation could lead to all sorts of bad consequences.
Further complicating your nutty thesis is the fact that animals dream, and we know what they dream about. Are you suggesting that animals visit God? Allah is hanging out with rats, cats, dogs?
Boru
God only speaks to people through:
1-a revelation
2-from behind a veil
3-sending a messenger with a message
An example is the Quran: which is a message given to a messenger.
Our brains are limited; that's why it interpret what it saw with what it knows and understands.
Similar to looking at a "Rorschach Test".
Yes. Even animals dream. The difference is in the brain of man and animal.
That makes no sense. Most humans are perfectly capable of understanding the concept ‘so and so is my enemy’. What purpose is served by substituting a dog?
In a more general sense, divine communication only through revelation, a veil, or a messenger seems a pretty sloppy way for a god to conduct business (it also bears a stunning resemblance to the Mafia, but that’s a topic for another time). It strikes me that pagan and polytheistic religions - as well as Judaism - had a more reliable set up: if Thor, Apollo, or Yahweh needed something done, they went right to the parties involved with detailed instructions.
Boru
