Week 2 of our series "Believe it Or Not" where we learn about Balak, Balaam, and the donkey. Words spoken about us are important and we must remember that God speaks a blessing over us and not a curse.
A donkey talks and that doesn’t raise an eyebrow bc God can do anything? Sounds believable, I now believe donkeys can talk bc one talked to me yesterday and God told me this would happen and it happened. I just can’t get him to talk when other people are around bc God told him not to. I can convince people Balaam’s Donkey spoke but they don’t believe me when mine spoke. Just believe harder 😬. This is obviously a fairytale, no evidence Donkeys can talk. This is one of the many things you have to blindly believe to remain indoctrinated in Christianity. Somehow people make it past the talking snake and magical tree in Genesis.
Cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias. A donkey talks so you need confirmation that it is true. Anytime something magical and defies physics you just plug it in with, God can do anything. Anything wrong with this line of thinking? Just bc it says so in an ancient book a couple thousand years ago doesn’t make it true. For instance, I was walking with a donkey yesterday and out of the blue it talked to me. It said God allowed him to speak. Now all I need to do is write this in a book, wait 2,000 years and it will become believable bc it is the word of God. It is ok to be skeptical about a talking donkey, don’t just accept it as true like we accepted Santa Claus as true when we were kids.
