Be kind to animals - they can see angels

• Skibi

  7 Jan 07, 00:34

  Numbers 22:21-23 NIV
  Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab. But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat her to get her back on the road.

  Numbers 22:31 NIV
  Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.

  The donkey can see the angel without God having to open its eyes.
• laoda99

  7 Jan 07, 00:47

  Originally posted by Skibi:

  The donkey can see the angel without God having to open its eyes.

  Next time think twice when u call someone a donkey.
• Icemoon

  7 Jan 07, 01:02

  Originally posted by Skibi:

  The donkey can see the angel without God having to open its eyes.

  First, your topic is misleading and a fallacy. Sweeping generalisation. One donkey only and you say animals?
  
  Why don't you say the serpent in Eden could talk, the donkey could talk, so animals can talk in human tongues?
  
  Second, there are commentators who say actually Balaam could see the angel, but he was too pre-occupied with something else.
• vince69

  7 Jan 07, 01:07

  be kind to strangers, you never know who you are entertaining ....
  
  

  
  Hebrews 13:2
  Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

• Icemoon

  7 Jan 07, 01:11

  OT a bit .. Abraham knew the three visitors were angels right?
  
  Same for Lot regarding the angel who was almost sodomised?
• Chin Eng

  7 Jan 07, 09:25

  another fallacious posting by our dear skibi.... the balaam's donkey incident is specifically allowed so that God's goal is achieved. It is a one off incident and, as far as I know, it was never repeated.
  
  might as well say that all animals can talk:
  22:28
  Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?"
  
  Be care when you talk to your dog... one day he might reply.
• breytonhartge

  8 Jan 07, 10:33

  Originally posted by Chin Eng:

  another fallacious posting by our dear skibi.... the balaam's donkey incident is specifically allowed so that God's goal is achieved. It is a one off incident and, as far as I know, it was never repeated.
  
  might as well say that all animals can talk:
  22:28
  Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?"
  
  Be care when you talk to your dog... one day he might reply.

  ROFL!
• (human)

  8 Jan 07, 11:00

  Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.