Still no answer aboutthe talking snake......
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Still no answer aboutthe talking snake......
well snakes don't have vocal chords or a diaphragm, nor the geometry of the mouth to be able to form the sounds of speech, they lack the mental capacity for speech or even complex thought and even if they could speak it presumably would be in a snake language, not a human one.
But the bible definitely says it was a talking snake, so the jury's out on that one I guess.
That's probably aimed at me. Truthpaste is a fanatic (if he isn't a wind up) people like him need countering. Other people who have posted on this thread and who tried what their faith means to them in a fair minded manner should be respected in my opinion, not told that what they think is bollocks. There's enough of that in the world and it doesn't make for a better place.
Sorry - I couldn't resist.
Although I think most of the thread has been fairly engaged and respectful - if not a meeting of any minds.
Truthpaste is probably not a wind up, but he is an extremist. That came out more in the Israel-Palestine thread than this one. But anyone who believes in the literal truth of the Old Testament, magic and supernatural events, and some cloud based entity giving 'the chosen people' the title deeds to a swathe of the Middle East over 3000 years ago (and uses that to justify ethnic cleansing and state persecution) should certainly be challenged, and not just about the talking snake!
This board is almost the most well mannered I've encountered since the 1990's. Some like Yahoo Chat have been taken down because of the levels of abuse etc
As for the snake, what we have here is someone that can't see above the glass ceiling of science, which can vary from brilliant to completely barking up the wrong tree. If you doubt that then dig out some science books from your formative years and see how many corrections/ editions have been printed since.
So Satan used a snake and God used a donkey to pass on a message on one occasion, so what?....if life IS more than flesh and blood, and people can be possessed, what is the problem?
Look at City from the 60's to the 20's and you'll find your fair share of donkeys, mind you I'm not sure if they could also speak?
The glass ceiling of science???? How is that description consistent with the fact that science books are indeed re-written and modified once we learn more about subject matter with our improving understanding of science (i.e. increased knowledge)? A ceiling that rises perhaps . All the greatest scientific minds work on that basis. Richard Feynman used the anaology of only being able to see part of a chess board and observing only certain pieces - and as the game goes on we see not only pieces that we hadn't seen previously but we also see that some pieces move in ways that were previously not evident. Knowledge is never perfect but science has enabled people to have heart transplants, to send spacecraft into the far reaches of the universe and for us to be protected against viruses and disease. There is no shame in intelligent people knowing that they don't know everything.
However, I will ask you yet again: do you believe that the talking snake existed or is it symbolic/a parable of sorts/allegorical?
Why are you so reticent to answer that very specific question?