Why the @#$% do you whine about someone's ooga-booga superstition nonsense book? They don't care about your analysis in fact most of them pick and choose what they like as if it were a buffet they probably glanced at this part and were like WTF-ever. The real situation to #@%# about is them trying to enforce religion over government. That #@%! IS ridiculous. We might as well start adding laws about breaking mirrors, not walking under ladders, and never stepping over the path of a black cat.
Replace magic with "it's just a coincidence/scam" They sure believe in their deity but when other religion claims to have a deity that made miracles they accuse them of lying or being wrong... Huh, weird how Theists think?
A random unknown character turns up, Balaam, who seems to know God quite well and regularly talks to God and God is so matey with Balaam he hires him to be his double secret agent. Then for some strange reason God is so angry with his new best secret agent friend he sends an angel with a sword to kill him but Gods angel of death is outsmarted by a donkey not once but three times? Then finally the donkey gets a chance to have a chat with Balaam to explain his uncharacteristic antics and Balaam just starts having a normal everyday back and forth chit chat with the heroic donkey as if it’s all in a day’s work? Maybe God should have given the secret double agent job to the Donkey instead of the idiotic Balaam and also if this is the pathetic useless level of Gods all powerful angels of death then I can’t wait to see the four horsemen of the apocalypse in action.
@@Daniel-cz7kd When God came to Balaam and asked him to go with them and to do what he told him to do. So we have a story in the bible where Gods talking to some random guy we have never heard of as if that's a normal everyday occurence, we have a talking donkey who can actually have a sensible conversation with someone and that someone doesn’t seem to think that’s absolutely mental and a useless angel of death sent by God, who for whatever reason needs a sword to kill someone, and is so useless this angel of God is outsmarted three times by a donkey and your only question is about me making stuff up about Balaam being hired by God as a secret agent???
@@terryriley8963 It wouldn’t be my only question, but if you’re not making stuff up about Balaam being God’s hired secret agent, then you could easily point out where in the Bible it mentions any of that.
@@Daniel-cz7kd I said in my reply that I made up the hiring of the secret agent stuff. Anyway God did ask Ballam to ‘go with them' and do what God said, so Ballam wasn’t acting on the behalf of the Balak officials who were going to reward Ballam handsomely. So when Ballam went with the Balak officials these Balak officials believed Ballam was working for them and going to do what they wanted him to do but Ballam was secretly working for God and going to do what God wanted him to do. So a secret double agent is someone who pretends to act for someone while in fact secretly acting on behalf of someone else which is what Ballam was doing. Also God didn’t literally ‘hire’ Ballam, he told Ballam what to do, but if Ballam didn’t do it for God I’m sure with Gods past record of getting very upset with people who didn’t do as they were told Ballam had to do it. So Ballam didn’t do what God said for a reward he would have done it to avoid a horrible punishment God is so quick and eager to dish out on what he considers rebellious people which is anyone not doing what God tells you to do.
After growing up in the church, this story cemented my atheism. I can understand the angel being invisible but why can the donkey see it? Is the angel waiting for Balaam to walk into the sword? Why doesn't God just kill Balaam like he did Onan? I know most of this book is completely made up but this story just hits me in a different way.
Re. _"I know most of this book is completely made up",_ no, all of this book is made up. Not a single bit of the Exodus story is verifiable by a non-biblical source.
Ah the infamous verse of the Bible with the talking donkey in it. Oh, and God sent an angel to take out Balaam Agent 47 style only for that angel to suck at using a sword.
The Bible tells us the impact of the company that we keep on our lives. Proverbs 13:20 says, He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: But a companion of fools shall be destroyed. It is a wise person that fears the Lord and heeds what he says in the Bible; a person is behaving as a fool if they mock God and reject his word. The tragic outcome of one that persists in their foolishness: destruction. God is our Maker and has provided one way for each of us to be reconciled to him and spared his wrath in hell through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Savior of men (see 1 John 4:14, Acts 4:12, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21). In light of these things, were it me, I would find some God-fearing company instead.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen who cares what the bible says, because it’s just a collection of badly edited Bronze and Iron Age fables with NO evidence any of it ever happened. In fact, the bible gets so much wrong that we can safely assume the rest is BS as well. If you think the fact that some towns existing at the time is evidence, you have clearly never read any other fiction.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen Is it? So which was King David when he held that census in 2 Samuel 24, then? Wise, or foolish. And by what council, was an entire family condemned, in 1 Kings 14? Also, what was the age of the youngest family member, there? Very much not spared - nor 70,000 others in 2 Samuel 24. And Adam, Eve, and Satan arguably helped 'make us' too, as I recall. Also, what do you mean, by 'each of us'? Given Matthew 7:14 and Romans 9:12.
This is what happens when someone tries to write out "oral tradition." Even if it were just offered as a fable, and not the infallible word of a god, it would still be practically incoherent. You're apparently covering the rest in future videos so I wont give away any spoilers, but the actions of the guys in this story are about as realistic as a campy B rated late night movie.
@@goldenalt3166 The editors didn’t know which version was the “true” one, so they kept both. We now know no version was true, and we can have a giggle about the messed up fables.
@@Daniel-cz7kd the one with the Bronze and Iron Age fables. Btw, you are just like a dog that leaves its scent mark everywhere. Only similar “creatures” will appreciate it.
Classic bible story. God inconsistently telling people what to do, and when God changes his mind, or they slightly misunderstand, the first resolution is murder. God forbid he coherently tells people what he wants. And yes, I meant that literally. If God is omnipotent, the only one capable of telling God what to do, is God. The only thing inhibiting God from clearly sending his message, is God.
NOT to make spoilers and certainly not to say that Hemant's take of this story is less enjoyable than Darkmatter2525. What i mean to say is the combo of the visual animation together with the original text read by Hemant is *sooo hilarious!!* For those interested, here: ua-cam.com/video/uAQ1GJeYK0A/v-deo.html
Best, most intelligent Atheist videos on ALL youtube! I am both impressed, and delighted. It takes COURAGE to speak the truth, in a world so full of BRAIN-LAZY religious idiots!
Maybe the angel should have appeared to Balaam instead of the donkey in the first place, so the innocent donkey wouldn't get scared and beaten 3 times?!? God's messengers need to work on their communication skills!
This part is like a really bad TV daytime soap opera script. I don't recall which one but one of the famous soaps did actually get into OTT paranormal plots like this for a long time. The bible was just written as campfire entertainment for the olden tribes and then it got taken way too seriously.
The narrative of a schizophrenic, split personality yahweh in this chapter could be another one of those stories ripped from the Sumerian stories with enlil and Enki in it, similar to the Noah flood story. Where Enlil commands one thing but Enki his brother would go behind Enlil's back with a counter plan. Just a loose hypothesis. But we see clearly how the bible meshes together stories about different deities into one Israelite deity to shape a monotheistic narrative
@@stevewebber707 this chapter does actually say that the angel of yahweh "stood in the way as a satan against" balaam. Niv translates it here as "stood in the road to oppose".
It really feels like this chapter is only in the Bible because everything else in Numbers was too important to throw out. But seriously, this chapter should get the whole book thrown out. Honestly I don't understand why apologists try to find historical evidence for Jesus, but accept this story which clearly no author could have witnessed. I'd just go "Maybe the Jesus story didn't need witnesses and was told to the authors by God, like this one".
If God is all powerful and wants everyone to know a message, can't he just will everyone into knowing it? Why would he need a book or go between messengers?
The "Promised Land". Why didn't the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving God put up a few signs, or do something to deter settlers from occupying the place before the Jews came along to claim it? It would have prevented a lot of bloodshed. What am I saying? God loves bloodshed, it gives him such a lot of joy. He is The Lord of War, after all. God seems more like a child playing with his tin soldiers than this Personal, Intelligent, Loving entity.
Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal. Nice alliteration there! I do think this story was supposed to be taken as humorous with Balaam's donkey making an ass out of him! His lack of surprise by his donkey talking is silly. " Oh gee, maybe I should lay off those magic mushrooms!" Of course, fundy literalists would say this whole ridiculous story had to have been real history.
Poor donkey, this is a horror movie from his perspective. First haunted by a horror that only he can witness, then possessed and made to speak words he can't understand by an unknown power.
A talking donkey? I wouldn't have minded if my cat could have talked. 'Take this pill... it's good for you!' Then again... I might not have liked the reply...
The author of this nonsense was doing an L. Ron Hubbard. He was taking bets on whether-or-not people would be dumb enough to take this story seriously. It's not surprising that these people claimed that rainbows were a sign from god.
For all the times I mentioned in chat that this is the episode I was waiting for... I let a certain cranky Yorkshire Terrier and his need to pee... prevent me from going to it live.
To me, as a non-native English speaker, in this story there are far too many actors or locations or what starting with "bey", or "bay", or "bej" ... whatever. Now, close to the end, I'm completely lost! Sounds all the same in my ears.
The King James has greater clarity than whichever is being read. 1) Balaam is a profiteering profit, which is why Balak sends two different envoys to him each promising vast riches and power. 2) God tells Balaam to only go if his "guests" command that he travel with them. The word in Hebrew is plain that he is being taken in. 3) He is up first thing in the morning preparing to go, and he is not being compelled. Further, he was already told once that ye should not go voluntarily. This action places him in direct opposition to God's commands to him. 4) This is why the angel arrives. He is not commanded to kill Balaam but only to withstand him. This is why the donkey was able to avoid him three times. Yes, he would have killed him, but it was not specifically required that he do so. 5) Balaam is behaving irrationally and fails to recognize the supernatural occurrence because his pride has been inflamed and he is jealous for the riches of Balak. He now engages in a discussion that displays his lack of cognitive awareness of a world beyond himself. In the New Testament, one of the epistles will echo this by stating, "...the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet." (I Peter 2:16) 6) Balaam is once again reminded that he was strictly told NOT attempt to curse Israel, now that he has broken the first command by going, he will now be embarrassed and humbled before Balak for his hubris. 7) Balaam let's Balak know that HE would love to curse Israel, but God has placed restrictions on his speech limiting his effectiveness. 8) Balaam will be listed eight times after this across both of the Testaments as being a man whose only motivation was money. This is more than Jezebel, Cain, and Korah COMBINED!!* * I did not actually count the occurances of the name, but rather the number of incidents where it occurred, for instance I counted consecutive verses both containing his name as a single instance.
One's egoic mind finds itself abandoned in this totally abstract mental arena: the angel of the Lord stood in "a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left". The ego traps your mental faculties, and the foot, or symbol of the lower ego gets crushed. Notice it is a Narrow place, representing the stubborn narrow minded personality, and the narrow space between the two hemispheres of the brain, that must reunite into one. Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path between two vineyards, (the 2 vineyards are left and right hemispheres of your brain), with walls on both sides. When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord , she pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against it. So he beat her again. Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, "I have sinned [have been a stupid ass]. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me [egoic control]. Now if you are displeased, I will go back."
Sorry, so why do so many people have to die, over a bunch of oblique metaphors, @dannyrybeck ? And I don't just mean in this verse, or in 2 Samuel 24 - but in schisms, the Reformation, the Thirty years War and more. Or in an Inquisition? How does one know when what is literal, ends, and what is not, begins? Also, one who's 'name is jealous' - is an odd one to lecture others, on egoic behavior, perhaps.
Friendly Atheist , Hemant, lol! Damn I love your comments! And neigh was cute and made more sense But Bray would be donkeyer! This is one of the weirdest parts of the weird books!👍🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌
"Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal." I'll admit that laughing at old Hebrew names is poor form but... this is just silly. It feels like something Akira Toriyama would put in Dargon Ball, ala "Bibidi Babidi Buu".
Wait, so even though the israelites are god's chosen people, he was also communicating with other groups? Is this the only time this happens in the bible? I wonder if Balaam and god were close prior to all this happening. Did god have a side piece? Several?
God knew they will meet enemies, chaos, nonsense happenings like talking donkey along to promised land, but is called a SAVIOR from Egypt slavery. Why didn’t I notice this and was thinking Bible god is best savior, wise, just and love!? The worse even was thinking this book is inspired.
10:56 You make it sound like threatening to kill someone is something this Yahway character would have a problem with. Maybe he was supposed to kill a bunch of people then give the survivors just enough to survive on and add some weird punishment? I think the pattern of god-style behaviour has been established by now.
Hi Hement-- I have some enemies I'd like you to curse. I was wondering if you could come over and curse them. What do you normally charge for this service? Regards, Ken Leeds p.s.: Please don't bring any donkeys. I find they usually interfere with my plans.
This story is so unreal dumb that i am not able to believe that there could possibly be a single Christian who actually has read it and is still thinking the bible is legit. If a Christian reads this, i would love to hear how it is possible to believe such braindead childish nonsense?!
The Bible asks the question, Is any thing too hard for the LORD? (ref. Genesis 18:14). God is our Almighty Creator (ref. Genesis 1:1). In light of these things, believers do not stumble every time the scripture records something miraculous. God accomplishes many things every day on our behalf that serve to keep us alive. They are so commonplace to us and we so take them for granted that we do not call them miraculous, but they are nonetheless in that the power of God is behind them. It is a wise person that humbles himself before God, recognizing that his life is very frail and that he is dependent upon God his Maker for all things.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen "fool of a took" gandalf scolded pippin. See, i can quote books too... Only... yours is garbage, where'd you get that book? You typed in a lot of words, only for it to have even less meaning than my single sentence that i quoted.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen Wow, so are you going to tell me that the creator of the universe uses his power to let a donkey talk and is telling a guy to go somewhere and when the person does as he is told by god, he sends a strange only for donkeys visible angel who is probably the worst assassin in all history and tries to assassinate a guy on a very strange path in the desert, that leads across paths that are so small you can´t turn around and nonsense like that?! Are you serious? In Math 27,52-55 hordes of undead walk around in Jerusalem, do you believe that as well, because it is written down by some anonymous sheepherders some thousand years ago, or is there a limit of bullshit you are able and willing to swallow?
@@sm8johnthreesixteen Can you give a single example of what this god is doing in reality that has not been done by any of the endless amounts of other gods worldwide, or no god at all? Just one, that you can demonstrate? And when you can´t demonstrate a single supernatural effect or answered prayer in all the history of humans, would you say it is fair to say that you are deluded?
@@hitman5782 A foolish person would deny that the skyscraper had an architect and builder; the ornate wedding dress, a designer and seamstress; or the detailed, lifelike portrait, a gifted artist. The lie of evolution has taught us to observe creation--which points to its Creator--and deny him. But you don't have to! The Bible is to be received and believed as a whole--and the God of the Bible takes credit as being the one behind it all--the heavens, the earth, mankind, creatures, plant life, and the nations. He has also revealed the coming judgment which we face as sinners before him and the one way of escape he has given in providing a Savior for mankind--the Lord Jesus Christ. God's desire is that no man perish, but that all would come to repentance (see 2 Peter 3:9). We are not God's judge--he is ours. A wise man recognizes the difference and acts on God's gracious offer of forgiveness through faith in Jesus Christ (see 2 Timothy 3:15)
Judging from the sacrifices and that Balaam has a direct line to god, these people and the Israeltes seem to be the same people, although Balaam apparently came from Iraq. Really, this seems to be a completely separate myth which has been crudely spliced into the narrative.
Hemant, is that your name? Excuse my ignorance. This video was great, like your others, I will 'smash' the 'like button'. But, I'm an atheist. My first doubts about the Bible arose with the Jonah in a whale story when I was 6. I was a 90% atheist by 9. Our role, our job, our duty, is to sow seeds of doubt in adults. I admire you and your videos, but (I said the same on the Atheist Experience) we are not getting to the crux of how to swing a magical-thinker to a logical-thinker. I am not remonstrating with you because I don't have the answer either.
Allan Neuvonen Would it surprise you to learn, there’s no whale in Jonah’s story and plenty of logical-thinkers know how to distinguish between doubt and truth when studying and teaching the Bible.
@@Daniel-cz7kd It's probably a whale - why split hairs? No fish is that big. Easy to confuse them too. Or dumb it down for long time land dwellers. As for not splitting hairs - better than whatever got split of Achan's youngest, hairs. Or those in 1 Kings 14. Split, likely, along with their, craniums? Or we could do what Augustine and others do, and split hairs over 'by Adam, sin entered' versus 'because of Adam, sin entered' and so on.
@@chrissonofpear1384 And how do you know? And what does Achan have to do with hairs? And what’s your concern with Augustine and the others and ‘by Adam’ 🆚 ‘because of Adam’?
@@Daniel-cz7kd Heirs, not hairs. Don't be silly. And Augustine's view was about 'IN Adam all sinned' which made sin hereditary, and perhaps even sexually linked (and BOY did Augustine have a lot to say about that!) in contrast to translations that made it simply 'because of Adam, all sinned'. One makes it a somewhat deterministic concept, whilst the other leaves it more open ended. And just wait until you see how he used the term 'typoi' in 1 Corinthians 10, regarding Jewish guilt, over the crucifixion, too... As for 'how do I know' - it is vaguely possible, I suppose, that the spirit could tell you? I just want to know what the ages of the youngest would be, in a family a God deemed it acceptable, to stone, to their, deaths.
Really, Baalam hears his donkey talk and he acts like it’s just another Tuesday. If he was shocked and realized it was God’s doing, then ask for forgiveness, that’d be a bit more believable.
From memory the following might be of help. Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter (Judg. 11:29-40). King Mesha sacrifices his firstborn son (2 Kgs 3:26-27) The sacrifice of Hiel's firstborn and lastborn sons (1 Kgs 16:34; cf. Josh. 6:26) I'm not counting Abraham's attempt to sacrifice Isaac.
@@stevewebber707 never claimed that curses were or weren't biblical. My point is that gawwud was afraid that curses work and that a curse from a human might put an end to his own BS road trip for the 'chosen.'
Kew Akl Of course god believes curses work, god’s chained and bound to a curse, by judgment, to eternal torment and suffering, along with every person he can get to denounce the gospel.
First the Egyptian magicians were able to make magic, now there’s a guy making divination with god, in a future book there’s a witch able to invoke the spirit of a prophet… the Bible is weird
@@Daniel-cz7kd But has a tlaking donkey, like Shrek. Balaam aslo definitely did NOT accept bribes. He accepted the proper price for his services. That's just regular trade. He even 100% stick with the Lord of Hosts. Zero blame on poor Balaam, murderd by Gawd's people.
OK, am I blacking out and just missing entire chapters, or is there a lot going on in the Bible that's not in the plain text? Because I don't remember the Israelites capturing cities from last time. What the hell? *edit* I checked. I've seen the Numbers 21 video. Even left a comment on it... complaining about how confused I was about the breakneck pacing of the narrative. Oh, well :)
1. Wait, isn't the Euphrates in Iran? How far is Iran from Palestine? No really, I don't know: gotta go look at a map, but it doesn't exactly seem like a short way to go for this dude to get reinforcements. 2. I don't know if this is related, but Zoroastrianism, the oldest monotheistic religion in the world, did originate in Iran, and the Zoroastrians and Jews worship the same God, or BASICALLY, anyway, since Ahura Mazda is where the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) got their idea for God as it currently stands. Ahura Mazda--stop me if this sounds familiar--is an all-good Being of pure light, who created everything good, and who created a paradise for people to live in after they die so long s those people help him in his fight against Ahriman, who is Zoroastrianism's equivalent of Satan. ALSO where we get our current idea of Satan, I might add, because you'll see in the Book of Job, which is WAY older than Exodus, Satan used to be a different kind of guy altogether. In pre-Babylonian Exile Judaism, Satan wasn't so much the bad guy as the district attorney. 3. Animal cruelty? Oh, NICE, Torah, thanks. Beat your donkey to get it to do what you want, that's classy. And "productive". 4. Snort, I'm sorry, I can't help hearing the donkey talk in Eddie Murphy's voice like on "Shrek". XD And I said that before I got to you saying it. 5. I kind of wish the donkey could beat him back, but I'm pretty sure they don't have thumbs, so it would be hard for it to hold the stick. Meh. Just kick him. 6. So, okay, chapter ends with him on he SAME MISSION God set him up for in the firs place? This whole thing with the donkey could have easily been avoided. Oi, people, learn to write. This is what we call a "non-sequitur".
As a parent, I often have to tell my children “No.” Sometimes they heard me quite clearly the first time, but their little hearts are so drawn to the focus of their desire that they keep asking, hoping to wear me down. Sometimes, I adjust my instructions in an attempt to please them without compromising the end goal. Do you know what’s interesting? When I have given in to self-centered pleading, it’s often when they have the greatest difficulty with self-regulation. Instead of showing gratefulness, childish immaturity often lashes out when obstacles arise, just like Balaam accusing the donkey of making him look like a fool. When we sidestep the character development of self-discipline, we will always end up more concerned about how we look to others than about the state of our soul.
Realise it’s just a fable, most likely a merge of different versions. And yes, your little tale about raising your children is just a cute little anecdote that has no bearing on the story, because it’s a story about an ADULT.
So does God actually love what he created? Snake is cursed, allowed Abel to kill lamb and burnt for offering, drowned all of innocent animals (imagine all those parent animals trying to save their little babies from that flood), lots and lots of animals sacrificed even their intestines to be waved, donkey being beaten, allows Samson using animal’s jaw for weapon, what else about animals that was cursed in this book!?
@@Daniel-cz7kd By Genesis 3, the snake is cursed to crawl on his belly. By toward the end of this, very long, but often skipping over much, book (Genesis) a whole bunch of animals drown too, except for two of each in some species, and seven 'clean ones' of each in others - aboard the Ark. It's not like animals could share in all the human guilt that somehow was never fixable, before Enoch's day - right?
@@chrissonofpear1384 Thank you for the reply, I was going to reply to him please read carefully the first chapters of Genesis. But I wonder if he is a Christian or not, a first time reader of a Bible!? Maybe if he wants to say that snake was a serpent as said in this book, he can search ALL the Bible stories for children that any denominations of Christian has published and see in their book the pictures of snakes and all those animals drowning at the global flood this Bible God had planned. But to me it’s all just fairy tales and myths so nothing important actually, I just want my comments to be read by doubters of this book especially the young ones, so they won’t waste their time in the nonsense stories in this book as I did that my parent forced me.
@@adamstrange7884 If you mean "Lord of the Rings": it's a masterpiece!, I mean this crap by amazon breaking Tolkiens lore. They call it Rings of Power and it has nothing to do with Tolkien. They are bastardising his work. It's writers are shit like the bible writers.
A reminder that we are under New Testament law so we do not follow Old Testament rituals. I would love for you to dig in to the gospels and challenge that you may be afraid of your own conversion if you do. I once called myself an atheist and then I started reading the New Testament and within 4mos converted. I pray the same for you.
As a former atheist myself, this atheist is simply capitalizing on the ignorance the majority have towards science, biology and archaeology. Science: Stephen Hawkins who was the greatest atheist scientist of our generation accepted intelligent design and even spoke about The Fine Tuning of the Universe, wonder why he’s not attempting to debunk him ? Biology: Richard Dawkins, the most known atheist scientist in evolutionary biology even accepted intelligent design, he even spoken about how our genes are coded information. Wonder why he’s not attempting to debunk him? Archaeology: Titus Kennedy whose an archaeologist has published a book in reference to multiple artifacts validating biblical stories, Wonder why he’s not attempting to debunk him? Charles Darwin who literally gave us the theory of evolution clearly stated that he was not an atheist, wonder why? Atheism is only surviving on the ignorance of others. Michio Kaku, another famous atheist scientist has also accepted design, Neil Tyson another famous atheist scientist has even claimed that our universe is a simulation (design) programed by a programmer (creator) ONLY two theories have been promoted to explain this design, 1) the multiverse and 2) an advance civilization, both without any evidence! Atheists want you to trade in your belief in God for their own belief in things they can’t even prove to exist! People, please do a proper investigation about the information your viewing or reading before promoting such ignorance as this video.
@Antonio.R.O.C. and of course you're too much of a coward to put any forward because you know that they're from answers in genesis. Go back to school, you clearly left your brain there.
Hemant or friendly atheist Interesting, “the atheists have won, right?”, well try reviewing your analysis and interpretation of what you’ve just read, as you’ve pointed out “Surely that’s a contradiction and the atheists have won, right?” Ok ‘right’, and don’t call Shirley “Can God not make up His mind? He told Balaam to go pretend to destroy the Israelites as long as Balaam did whatever God said... and as soon as Balaam begins the journey, one of God’s hencemen is in the middle of the road with a weapon.” Ok Hemant, where’s that written in Numbers 22? “By the way, along with the serpent in the Garden of Eden, this is the only animal that ever speaks in the Bible.” Don’t you mean ‘apart’? By the way, the donkey is the only animal that ever speaks in the Bible, there’s no other. “Well, if he was talking to a donkey, he probably should have said “nay.” Am I right? Because it’s a donkey? That was stupid.” Well, when your ass talks to you, you probably are allowed to say whatever you want. Since you’re “right”. Of course, last I checked donkeys ‘bray’. But of course you’re right, especially with the stupid part.
Hello, maybe you are doing these videos because you are angry at god… maybe your angry at christian people who forced their believes on you, but you also force your believes against the Bible and god on people. So how would it be if you ask your questions god himself? Ask with a humbly heart and be sure that he won’t be mad that you can’t fully believe at him… but he sees your heart and also your will.. when you give him 1% trust he can move mountains. But be sure that he is a god of righteousness. He is love but he comes also as god almighty who sees everything and everyone and every wicked work of the world or mankind will come to light… so you need Jesus because no one is perfect and you don’t need it to be.. but there are very evil people out there some are less worse some more some kind some less some more but no one is love but him. You can be filled with his love and through him act and love on righteousness. Your soul won’t die dear brother.. Jesus lives and he loves you. Repent and believe that there is a heaven and there is a hell. God bless you all
I fail to see how Hemant is forcing his beliefs on anyone. That’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous to suggest that Hemant is angry with someone he doesn’t believe exists. That’s like being mad at Batman.
I have repented - since I read the christian genocide manual, aka the bible, for myself instead of being ‘taught’ the palatable parts, I have repented of the decades I wasted worshipping the brutal, barbaric, bloodthirsty deity therein, and I am now saved from the shackles of crazy and abhorrent christian doctrine.
I'm angry at bad writing, backstories, lazy apologetics and so on. Even AFTER reading this chapter, and the previous one, and 2 Samuel 24, do you still automatically hold all these views of what is good, @Jesus spricht mit der Lieblichen - or have you any cause for concern? And Romans 1:18 seriously needs an overhaul already. In 2 Samuel 24, one who can 'move mountains' cannot even exert self control over one silly census. And in Numbers 14:32, He has a temper tantrum, of epic proportions, threatening all of His 'chosen people' - and only calms down thanks to the argument of Moses, a mere HUMAN. Who reminds Him basically that 'what will the other tribes think' - and thus to think, of His reputation? And he managed this twice, as I recall. So yes, I am at least, a little miffed, over that. And my self confessed name, is not 'jealous'... unlike some.
How many times have we heard this tired argument from people like you? You don't make any effort to understand why atheists have no belief in a god, so you assume we must be angry with it. You're going about all wrong when you come there trying to tell us what we think, it reeks of both arrogance and ignorance.
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This isn't Jeopardy! ... cute
Why the @#$% do you whine about someone's ooga-booga superstition nonsense book? They don't care about your analysis in fact most of them pick and choose what they like as if it were a buffet they probably glanced at this part and were like WTF-ever.
The real situation to #@%# about is them trying to enforce religion over government. That #@%! IS ridiculous. We might as well start adding laws about breaking mirrors, not walking under ladders, and never stepping over the path of a black cat.
You cracked me up with "talking out of your a$$ just took on a whole new meaning"! 🤣
Remember when is your deity is doing fantastical things it's a miracle but when the other side's deity does something fantastical it's magic.
Replace magic with "it's just a coincidence/scam"
They sure believe in their deity but when other religion claims to have a deity that made miracles they accuse them of lying or being wrong...
Huh, weird how Theists think?
...It's interesting how many of these stories makes sense if you just include the line, "And they were all high."
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Obligatory quip: The burning bush must have been hemp.
@@KianaWolf no. Its more likely to be opium
Amen.
Nah...cause im high, lol
I heard Eddie Murphy's voice when you read the donkey's lines 🤣
The funniest part of this story is that a divine being sent by God to kill Balaab was outsmarted by a Donkey 3 times
Makes you wonder who the real jackass is.🤔😂
Wow
A random unknown character turns up, Balaam, who seems to know God quite well and regularly talks to God and God is so matey with Balaam he hires him to be his double secret agent. Then for some strange reason God is so angry with his new best secret agent friend he sends an angel with a sword to kill him but Gods angel of death is outsmarted by a donkey not once but three times? Then finally the donkey gets a chance to have a chat with Balaam to explain his uncharacteristic antics and Balaam just starts having a normal everyday back and forth chit chat with the heroic donkey as if it’s all in a day’s work? Maybe God should have given the secret double agent job to the Donkey instead of the idiotic Balaam and also if this is the pathetic useless level of Gods all powerful angels of death then I can’t wait to see the four horsemen of the apocalypse in action.
Sounds suspiciously like when god doublecrosses Jonah or sends somebody to murder Moses on the road for no reason...
Terry Riley When did God “hire Balaam” to be “his double secret agent”?
@@Daniel-cz7kd When God came to Balaam and asked him to go with them and to do what he told him to do. So we have a story in the bible where Gods talking to some random guy we have never heard of as if that's a normal everyday occurence, we have a talking donkey who can actually have a sensible conversation with someone and that someone doesn’t seem to think that’s absolutely mental and a useless angel of death sent by God, who for whatever reason needs a sword to kill someone, and is so useless this angel of God is outsmarted three times by a donkey and your only question is about me making stuff up about Balaam being hired by God as a secret agent???
@@terryriley8963 It wouldn’t be my only question, but if you’re not making stuff up about Balaam being God’s hired secret agent, then you could easily point out where in the Bible it mentions any of that.
@@Daniel-cz7kd I said in my reply that I made up the hiring of the secret agent stuff. Anyway God did ask Ballam to ‘go with them' and do what God said, so Ballam wasn’t acting on the behalf of the Balak officials who were going to reward Ballam handsomely. So when Ballam went with the Balak officials these Balak officials believed Ballam was working for them and going to do what they wanted him to do but Ballam was secretly working for God and going to do what God wanted him to do. So a secret double agent is someone who pretends to act for someone while in fact secretly acting on behalf of someone else which is what Ballam was doing. Also God didn’t literally ‘hire’ Ballam, he told Ballam what to do, but if Ballam didn’t do it for God I’m sure with Gods past record of getting very upset with people who didn’t do as they were told Ballam had to do it. So Ballam didn’t do what God said for a reward he would have done it to avoid a horrible punishment God is so quick and eager to dish out on what he considers rebellious people which is anyone not doing what God tells you to do.
Your portrayal of Balaam's donkey is perhaps the highlight of the bible to date. A classic performance.
After growing up in the church, this story cemented my atheism. I can understand the angel being invisible but why can the donkey see it? Is the angel waiting for Balaam to walk into the sword? Why doesn't God just kill Balaam like he did Onan? I know most of this book is completely made up but this story just hits me in a different way.
Re. _"I know most of this book is completely made up",_ no, all of this book is made up. Not a single bit of the Exodus story is verifiable by a non-biblical source.
ALL What parts of this book 📖 are fact?
Animals have a sense for things that humans can't see, or feel.
@@AndrewJens Come on man. Is every city name in the Bible made up? We don't have to be hyperbolic.
@@Daniel-cz7kd Come on man. Is every city name in the Bible made up? We don't have to be hyperbolic.
Ah the infamous verse of the Bible with the talking donkey in it. Oh, and God sent an angel to take out Balaam Agent 47 style only for that angel to suck at using a sword.
I love these "Everything Wrong" videos. The only problem is that I get a bunch of religious vids in my recommends. The algorithm is not that smart.
💖💗💓 My husband an I just love your readings and commentary.
The Bible tells us the impact of the company that we keep on our lives. Proverbs 13:20 says, He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: But a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
It is a wise person that fears the Lord and heeds what he says in the Bible; a person is behaving as a fool if they mock God and reject his word. The tragic outcome of one that persists in their foolishness: destruction.
God is our Maker and has provided one way for each of us to be reconciled to him and spared his wrath in hell through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Savior of men (see 1 John 4:14, Acts 4:12, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21).
In light of these things, were it me, I would find some God-fearing company instead.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen who cares what the bible says, because it’s just a collection of badly edited Bronze and Iron Age fables with NO evidence any of it ever happened. In fact, the bible gets so much wrong that we can safely assume the rest is BS as well.
If you think the fact that some towns existing at the time is evidence, you have clearly never read any other fiction.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen Is it? So which was King David when he held that census in 2 Samuel 24, then? Wise, or foolish.
And by what council, was an entire family condemned, in 1 Kings 14? Also, what was the age of the youngest family member, there? Very much not spared - nor 70,000 others in 2 Samuel 24.
And Adam, Eve, and Satan arguably helped 'make us' too, as I recall.
Also, what do you mean, by 'each of us'? Given Matthew 7:14 and Romans 9:12.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen “Whosoever shall say ‘thou fool’ shall be in danger of hell fire” Matt 5:22
Yep the Wholly Fables aka the Bible we have talking donkeys and talking snakes.
This is what happens when someone tries to write out "oral tradition." Even if it were just offered as a fable, and not the infallible word of a god, it would still be practically incoherent. You're apparently covering the rest in future videos so I wont give away any spoilers, but the actions of the guys in this story are about as realistic as a campy B rated late night movie.
A lot of the incoherence seems to come from merging multiple versions of these stories. Seems probable that each was written in a more reasonable way.
@@goldenalt3166 The editors didn’t know which version was the “true” one, so they kept both. We now know no version was true, and we can have a giggle about the messed up fables.
@@kellydalstok8900 Until they use them to make laws, very funny.
I never thought I wanted the donkey from shrek in the bible
Hannah Hägg Which bible’s that one?
@@Daniel-cz7kd ha ha
@@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman Ha ha 😁
@@Daniel-cz7kd
@@Daniel-cz7kd the one with the Bronze and Iron Age fables.
Btw, you are just like a dog that leaves its scent mark everywhere. Only similar “creatures” will appreciate it.
Classic bible story. God inconsistently telling people what to do, and when God changes his mind, or they slightly misunderstand, the first resolution is murder.
God forbid he coherently tells people what he wants. And yes, I meant that literally.
If God is omnipotent, the only one capable of telling God what to do, is God. The only thing inhibiting God from clearly sending his message, is God.
I love this atheist!
I'm not sure if Hemant looked sad or nostalgic when he made the "Jeopardy" comment.
Man, I wish I had been here for the premiere of this video.
NOT to make spoilers and certainly not to say that Hemant's take of this story is less enjoyable than Darkmatter2525.
What i mean to say is the combo of the visual animation together with the original text read by Hemant is *sooo hilarious!!*
For those interested, here: ua-cam.com/video/uAQ1GJeYK0A/v-deo.html
So this omniscient narrator concludes that the talking snake was the devil, but the talking donkey was YHWH...
Those were some helluva mushrooms they were taking while writing these stories 😂
Probably burnin' some bush as well...
I remember darkmatter2525 did an animation of this story. It didn't hit me until the beating donky part.
I had a lot of laughs with this chapter. Can’t wait til next week!
Best, most intelligent Atheist videos on ALL youtube! I am both impressed, and delighted. It takes COURAGE to speak the truth, in a world so full of BRAIN-LAZY religious idiots!
My favorite is 5:11-29. God kills an unfaithful wife and the fetus.
So this is the famous talking donkey story! It's really bonkers, can't wait to see what happens next
Maybe the angel should have appeared to Balaam instead of the donkey in the first place, so the innocent donkey wouldn't get scared and beaten 3 times?!? God's messengers need to work on their communication skills!
Well they learned from the...
God I guess.
The donkey is a metaphor for Jesus.
Elaine Johnson The donkey wasn’t scared
@@Daniel-cz7kd go away and take your childish fables to your nursery
@@kellydalstok8900 I did, years ago
@03:40 god came to balaam and asked, "Who are these men with you?"
So much for omniscience?
God asked the same to Kain after he killed his brother.
Kew Akl What god? And who’s balaam?
@@hitman5782 There’s no Kain in the Bible
@@Daniel-cz7kd any god is fair game to scrutiny.
balaam, he cometh immediately after KA
as in KABALAAMMMMMM
@@kewakl8891 Alrighty then 😁
This part is like a really bad TV daytime soap opera script. I don't recall which one but one of the famous soaps did actually get into OTT paranormal plots like this for a long time.
The bible was just written as campfire entertainment for the olden tribes and then it got taken way too seriously.
The narrative of a schizophrenic, split personality yahweh in this chapter could be another one of those stories ripped from the Sumerian stories with enlil and Enki in it, similar to the Noah flood story. Where Enlil commands one thing but Enki his brother would go behind Enlil's back with a counter plan. Just a loose hypothesis. But we see clearly how the bible meshes together stories about different deities into one Israelite deity to shape a monotheistic narrative
Maybe Satan is just God's evil twin. With identical abilities and capacity. I'm not sure how to tell the two apart, but just throwing that out there.
@@stevewebber707 Or maybe it's another Enki and Enlil rip
@@stevewebber707 this chapter does actually say that the angel of yahweh "stood in the way as a satan against" balaam. Niv translates it here as "stood in the road to oppose".
I would to see a book about the earlier source material and how it was all lumped together. Obviously there are a lot of them out there.
@@garryferrington811 When you say "a book". You mean a collection someone published with all the source materials in one?
numbers 22:31,34 ........... it is a sin to NOT see that which god HAS MADE INVISIBLE TO YOU!
It really feels like this chapter is only in the Bible because everything else in Numbers was too important to throw out. But seriously, this chapter should get the whole book thrown out. Honestly I don't understand why apologists try to find historical evidence for Jesus, but accept this story which clearly no author could have witnessed. I'd just go "Maybe the Jesus story didn't need witnesses and was told to the authors by God, like this one".
If God is all powerful and wants everyone to know a message, can't he just will everyone into knowing it? Why would he need a book or go between messengers?
The God-donkey did make some good points the merger with the donkey makes the God character more sensible.
I need some warning, Hemet. I very nearly snarfed my breakfast
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So many many many times that Yehovah curses Israel, Balaam asks for curses on Israel at the ONE time God don't want to curse them
The "Promised Land". Why didn't the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving God put up a few signs, or do something to deter settlers from occupying the place before the Jews came along to claim it? It would have prevented a lot of bloodshed. What am I saying? God loves bloodshed, it gives him such a lot of joy. He is The Lord of War, after all. God seems more like a child playing with his tin soldiers than this Personal, Intelligent, Loving entity.
Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal. Nice alliteration there! I do think this story was supposed to be taken as humorous with Balaam's donkey making an ass out of him! His lack of surprise by his donkey talking is silly. " Oh gee, maybe I should lay off those magic mushrooms!" Of course, fundy literalists would say this whole ridiculous story had to have been real history.
Poor donkey, this is a horror movie from his perspective. First haunted by a horror that only he can witness, then possessed and made to speak words he can't understand by an unknown power.
A talking donkey? I wouldn't have minded if my cat could have talked. 'Take this pill... it's good for you!'
Then again... I might not have liked the reply...
This might make a better movie than anything Disney and Marvel produce these days.
This chapter would make an excellent sitcom episode. 😂
"like the Ox licking up the grass" WTF they use the teeth to cut the grass so they can eat the grass.
Well, cows wrap their tongue around some grass and then bite it off. It may look a bit like they are licking the grass.
@@fdabelstein true but the writers of the bible were not bright enough to realize that.
@@fdabelstein really? My cows just use the lawn mower and the giant fork.
@@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman And God decided not to correct their mistake /s
@@hakureikura9052 ha ha
The author of this nonsense was doing an L. Ron Hubbard. He was taking bets on whether-or-not people would be dumb enough to take this story seriously. It's not surprising that these people claimed that rainbows were a sign from god.
Wait for the rest! It's hilarious!
For all the times I mentioned in chat that this is the episode I was waiting for... I let a certain cranky Yorkshire Terrier and his need to pee... prevent me from going to it live.
Apparently it’s been too long since I read this particular story. It makes even less sense than I remembered.
Silvershroud What’s senseless about it?
To me, as a non-native English speaker, in this story there are far too many actors or locations or what starting with "bey", or "bay", or "bej" ... whatever. Now, close to the end, I'm completely lost! Sounds all the same in my ears.
The King James has greater clarity than whichever is being read.
1) Balaam is a profiteering profit, which is why Balak sends two different envoys to him each promising vast riches and power.
2) God tells Balaam to only go if his "guests" command that he travel with them. The word in Hebrew is plain that he is being taken in.
3) He is up first thing in the morning preparing to go, and he is not being compelled. Further, he was already told once that ye should not go voluntarily. This action places him in direct opposition to God's commands to him.
4) This is why the angel arrives. He is not commanded to kill Balaam but only to withstand him. This is why the donkey was able to avoid him three times. Yes, he would have killed him, but it was not specifically required that he do so.
5) Balaam is behaving irrationally and fails to recognize the supernatural occurrence because his pride has been inflamed and he is jealous for the riches of Balak. He now engages in a discussion that displays his lack of cognitive awareness of a world beyond himself. In the New Testament, one of the epistles will echo this by stating, "...the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet." (I Peter 2:16)
6) Balaam is once again reminded that he was strictly told NOT attempt to curse Israel, now that he has broken the first command by going, he will now be embarrassed and humbled before Balak for his hubris.
7) Balaam let's Balak know that HE would love to curse Israel, but God has placed restrictions on his speech limiting his effectiveness.
8) Balaam will be listed eight times after this across both of the Testaments as being a man whose only motivation was money. This is more than Jezebel, Cain, and Korah COMBINED!!*
* I did not actually count the occurances of the name, but rather the number of incidents where it occurred, for instance I counted consecutive verses both containing his name as a single instance.
So glad that you took the time to look into Balaam,'s ass!
The Bible's very own Mr Ed.
One's egoic mind finds itself abandoned in this totally abstract mental arena: the angel of the Lord stood in "a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left".
The ego traps your mental faculties, and the foot, or symbol of the lower ego gets crushed. Notice it is a Narrow place, representing the stubborn narrow minded personality, and the narrow space between the two hemispheres of the brain, that must reunite into one.
Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path between two vineyards, (the 2 vineyards are left and right hemispheres of your brain), with walls on both sides. When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord , she pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against it. So he beat her again.
Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, "I have sinned [have been a stupid ass]. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me [egoic control].
Now if you are displeased, I will go back."
Lolol
Sorry, so why do so many people have to die, over a bunch of oblique metaphors, @dannyrybeck ?
And I don't just mean in this verse, or in 2 Samuel 24 - but in schisms, the Reformation, the Thirty years War and more. Or in an Inquisition?
How does one know when what is literal, ends, and what is not, begins?
Also, one who's 'name is jealous' - is an odd one to lecture others, on egoic behavior, perhaps.
Nice.
Can you imagine the number of atheists who could be converted to theism if even just one donkey talked to them?
god had a Simpson moment DAAAH who are these people with you ? LOL or Adam where have you been hiding lol
I love DarkMatter2525's video covering this story. So absurd.
Perry Ekimae Quite correct, he does a very poor video about it, like all the others
@Daniel-cz7kd you mean he did a good job covering it and you're just salty.
i can’t wait for you to reach numbers 31 😊😊
Friendly Atheist , Hemant, lol! Damn I love your comments! And neigh was cute and made more sense But Bray would be donkeyer! This is one of the weirdest parts of the weird books!👍🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌
"Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal." I'll admit that laughing at old Hebrew names is poor form but... this is just silly. It feels like something Akira Toriyama would put in Dargon Ball, ala "Bibidi Babidi Buu".
You will find that a lot of the Klingon language is made up from Hebrew. The show Fraser, did a gag about that.
When I hear these biblical names, I always hear this line in my head: Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom.
@@kellydalstok8900 Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
Thanks
Wait, so even though the israelites are god's chosen people, he was also communicating with other groups? Is this the only time this happens in the bible? I wonder if Balaam and god were close prior to all this happening. Did god have a side piece? Several?
BaronVonSTFU First, there are no israelites.
Second, god communicates with all different people past and present, in all different ways.
God knew they will meet enemies, chaos, nonsense happenings like talking donkey along to promised land, but is called a SAVIOR from Egypt slavery. Why didn’t I notice this and was thinking Bible god is best savior, wise, just and love!? The worse even was thinking this book is inspired.
A fool says in his heart... There's no God
10:56 You make it sound like threatening to kill someone is something this Yahway character would have a problem with.
Maybe he was supposed to kill a bunch of people then give the survivors just enough to survive on and add some weird punishment? I think the pattern of god-style behaviour has been established by now.
1:07 Don't talk like that Hemant. You are a strong independent woman.
Hi Hement--
I have some enemies I'd like you to curse. I was wondering if you could come over and curse them. What do you normally charge for this service?
Regards,
Ken Leeds
p.s.: Please don't bring any donkeys. I find they usually interfere with my plans.
This story is so unreal dumb that i am not able to believe that there could possibly be a single Christian who actually has read it and is still thinking the bible is legit.
If a Christian reads this, i would love to hear how it is possible to believe such braindead childish nonsense?!
The Bible asks the question, Is any thing too hard for the LORD? (ref. Genesis 18:14). God is our Almighty Creator (ref. Genesis 1:1). In light of these things, believers do not stumble every time the scripture records something miraculous.
God accomplishes many things every day on our behalf that serve to keep us alive. They are so commonplace to us and we so take them for granted that we do not call them miraculous, but they are nonetheless in that the power of God is behind them.
It is a wise person that humbles himself before God, recognizing that his life is very frail and that he is dependent upon God his Maker for all things.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen "fool of a took" gandalf scolded pippin.
See, i can quote books too...
Only... yours is garbage, where'd you get that book?
You typed in a lot of words, only for it to have even less meaning than my single sentence that i quoted.
@@sm8johnthreesixteen Wow, so are you going to tell me that the creator of the universe uses his power to let a donkey talk and is telling a guy to go somewhere and when the person does as he is told by god, he sends a strange only for donkeys visible angel who is probably the worst assassin in all history and tries to assassinate a guy on a very strange path in the desert, that leads across paths that are so small you can´t turn around and nonsense like that?! Are you serious? In Math 27,52-55 hordes of undead walk around in Jerusalem, do you believe that as well, because it is written down by some anonymous sheepherders some thousand years ago, or is there a limit of bullshit you are able and willing to swallow?
@@sm8johnthreesixteen Can you give a single example of what this god is doing in reality that has not been done by any of the endless amounts of other gods worldwide, or no god at all? Just one, that you can demonstrate? And when you can´t demonstrate a single supernatural effect or answered prayer in all the history of humans, would you say it is fair to say that you are deluded?
@@hitman5782 A foolish person would deny that the skyscraper had an architect and builder; the ornate wedding dress, a designer and seamstress; or the detailed, lifelike portrait, a gifted artist. The lie of evolution has taught us to observe creation--which points to its Creator--and deny him. But you don't have to!
The Bible is to be received and believed as a whole--and the God of the Bible takes credit as being the one behind it all--the heavens, the earth, mankind, creatures, plant life, and the nations. He has also revealed the coming judgment which we face as sinners before him and the one way of escape he has given in providing a Savior for mankind--the Lord Jesus Christ. God's desire is that no man perish, but that all would come to repentance (see 2 Peter 3:9).
We are not God's judge--he is ours. A wise man recognizes the difference and acts on God's gracious offer of forgiveness through faith in Jesus Christ (see 2 Timothy 3:15)
Judging from the sacrifices and that Balaam has a direct line to god, these people and the Israeltes seem to be the same people, although Balaam apparently came from Iraq. Really, this seems to be a completely separate myth which has been crudely spliced into the narrative.
Balaam, Baloch, Beor... Big brown bear, blue bull, beautiful baboon, biking backwards bump black bug's banana boxes. tavi.
Hemant, is that your name?
Excuse my ignorance.
This video was great, like your others, I will 'smash' the 'like button'.
But, I'm an atheist.
My first doubts about the Bible arose with the Jonah in a whale story when I was 6.
I was a 90% atheist by 9.
Our role, our job, our duty, is to sow seeds of doubt in adults.
I admire you and your videos, but (I said the same on the Atheist Experience) we are not getting to the crux of how to swing a magical-thinker to a logical-thinker.
I am not remonstrating with you because I don't have the answer either.
Allan Neuvonen Would it surprise you to learn, there’s no whale in Jonah’s story and plenty of logical-thinkers know how to distinguish between doubt and truth when studying and teaching the Bible.
@@Daniel-cz7kd I know, twas a great fish.
@@Daniel-cz7kd It's probably a whale - why split hairs? No fish is that big.
Easy to confuse them too. Or dumb it down for long time land dwellers.
As for not splitting hairs - better than whatever got split of Achan's youngest, hairs. Or those in 1 Kings 14.
Split, likely, along with their, craniums?
Or we could do what Augustine and others do, and split hairs over 'by Adam, sin entered' versus 'because of Adam, sin entered' and so on.
@@chrissonofpear1384 And how do you know?
And what does Achan have to do with hairs?
And what’s your concern with Augustine and the others and ‘by Adam’ 🆚 ‘because of Adam’?
@@Daniel-cz7kd Heirs, not hairs. Don't be silly.
And Augustine's view was about 'IN Adam all sinned' which made sin hereditary, and perhaps even sexually linked (and BOY did Augustine have a lot to say about that!) in contrast to translations that made it simply 'because of Adam, all sinned'. One makes it a somewhat deterministic concept, whilst the other leaves it more open ended.
And just wait until you see how he used the term 'typoi' in 1 Corinthians 10, regarding Jewish guilt, over the crucifixion, too...
As for 'how do I know' - it is vaguely possible, I suppose, that the spirit could tell you?
I just want to know what the ages of the youngest would be, in a family a God deemed it acceptable, to stone, to their, deaths.
Really, Baalam hears his donkey talk and he acts like it’s just another Tuesday. If he was shocked and realized it was God’s doing, then ask for forgiveness, that’d be a bit more believable.
Hey I hope this notification reaches you. I am searching for the verse about god accepting a child sacrifice? I need to show it to someone!
From memory the following might be of help.
Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter (Judg. 11:29-40).
King Mesha sacrifices his firstborn son (2 Kgs 3:26-27)
The sacrifice of Hiel's firstborn and lastborn sons (1 Kgs 16:34; cf. Josh. 6:26)
I'm not counting Abraham's attempt to sacrifice Isaac.
numbers 22:12 implies that god believes that curses work!
Erm, why would you think curses weren't biblical?
I mean one of the fundamental claims of Christianity is the curse from original sin.
@@stevewebber707 never claimed that curses were or weren't biblical.
My point is that gawwud was afraid that curses work and that a curse from a human might put an end to his own BS road trip for the 'chosen.'
Kew Akl Of course god believes curses work, god’s chained and bound to a curse, by judgment, to eternal torment and suffering, along with every person he can get to denounce the gospel.
@@Daniel-cz7kd this version of mental gymnastics makes no sense to me.
@@kewakl8891 What part?
First the Egyptian magicians were able to make magic, now there’s a guy making divination with god, in a future book there’s a witch able to invoke the spirit of a prophet… the Bible is weird
Do you think, Balaam is like onion?
gagnashdiak x Hardly, Balaam is like a prophet who accepted bribes in exchange for his blessings and/or curses.
@@Daniel-cz7kd But has a tlaking donkey, like Shrek.
Balaam aslo definitely did NOT accept bribes. He accepted the proper price for his services. That's just regular trade.
He even 100% stick with the Lord of Hosts. Zero blame on poor Balaam, murderd by Gawd's people.
OK, am I blacking out and just missing entire chapters, or is there a lot going on in the Bible that's not in the plain text? Because I don't remember the Israelites capturing cities from last time. What the hell? *edit* I checked. I've seen the Numbers 21 video. Even left a comment on it... complaining about how confused I was about the breakneck pacing of the narrative. Oh, well :)
1. Wait, isn't the Euphrates in Iran? How far is Iran from Palestine? No really, I don't know: gotta go look at a map, but it doesn't exactly seem like a short way to go for this dude to get reinforcements.
2. I don't know if this is related, but Zoroastrianism, the oldest monotheistic religion in the world, did originate in Iran, and the Zoroastrians and Jews worship the same God, or BASICALLY, anyway, since Ahura Mazda is where the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) got their idea for God as it currently stands. Ahura Mazda--stop me if this sounds familiar--is an all-good Being of pure light, who created everything good, and who created a paradise for people to live in after they die so long s those people help him in his fight against Ahriman, who is Zoroastrianism's equivalent of Satan. ALSO where we get our current idea of Satan, I might add, because you'll see in the Book of Job, which is WAY older than Exodus, Satan used to be a different kind of guy altogether. In pre-Babylonian Exile Judaism, Satan wasn't so much the bad guy as the district attorney.
3. Animal cruelty? Oh, NICE, Torah, thanks. Beat your donkey to get it to do what you want, that's classy. And "productive".
4. Snort, I'm sorry, I can't help hearing the donkey talk in Eddie Murphy's voice like on "Shrek". XD And I said that before I got to you saying it.
5. I kind of wish the donkey could beat him back, but I'm pretty sure they don't have thumbs, so it would be hard for it to hold the stick. Meh. Just kick him.
6. So, okay, chapter ends with him on he SAME MISSION God set him up for in the firs place? This whole thing with the donkey could have easily been avoided. Oi, people, learn to write. This is what we call a "non-sequitur".
How many eyes does this angel have?
All of them.
He collects them.
He digs up graves just to get to those eyes and add them to his collection.
Your eyes arent safe from that angel.
As a parent, I often have to tell my children “No.” Sometimes they heard me quite clearly the first time, but their little hearts are so drawn to the focus of their desire that they keep asking, hoping to wear me down. Sometimes, I adjust my instructions in an attempt to please them without compromising the end goal.
Do you know what’s interesting? When I have given in to self-centered pleading, it’s often when they have the greatest difficulty with self-regulation. Instead of showing gratefulness, childish immaturity often lashes out when obstacles arise, just like Balaam accusing the donkey of making him look like a fool. When we sidestep the character development of self-discipline, we will always end up more concerned about how we look to others than about the state of our soul.
How is your anecdote about parenthood at all related to the Balaam story? They seem completely unrelated.
@@joshuaswart8211 God said no and Balaam kept asking until God let him follow his own course.
This doesn't make much sense.
Realise it’s just a fable, most likely a merge of different versions. And yes, your little tale about raising your children is just a cute little anecdote that has no bearing on the story, because it’s a story about an ADULT.
Genisis chapter one should of started with once a pun a time , instead of in the beginning of all this bullshit .
Balam CIA operative
So does God actually love what he created? Snake is cursed, allowed Abel to kill lamb and burnt for offering, drowned all of innocent animals (imagine all those parent animals trying to save their little babies from that flood), lots and lots of animals sacrificed even their intestines to be waved, donkey being beaten, allows Samson using animal’s jaw for weapon, what else about animals that was cursed in this book!?
L H Where in the Bible is “Snake is cursed” and “drowned all of innocent animals”?
@@Daniel-cz7kd Genesis
@@lh1673 Any chapters, verses?
@@Daniel-cz7kd By Genesis 3, the snake is cursed to crawl on his belly.
By toward the end of this, very long, but often skipping over much, book (Genesis) a whole bunch of animals drown too, except for two of each in some species, and seven 'clean ones' of each in others - aboard the Ark.
It's not like animals could share in all the human guilt that somehow was never fixable, before Enoch's day - right?
@@chrissonofpear1384 Thank you for the reply, I was going to reply to him please read carefully the first chapters of Genesis. But I wonder if he is a Christian or not, a first time reader of a Bible!? Maybe if he wants to say that snake was a serpent as said in this book, he can search ALL the Bible stories for children that any denominations of Christian has published and see in their book the pictures of snakes and all those animals drowning at the global flood this Bible God had planned. But to me it’s all just fairy tales and myths so nothing important actually, I just want my comments to be read by doubters of this book especially the young ones, so they won’t waste their time in the nonsense stories in this book as I did that my parent forced me.
This story is just a load of Balaak's
The writing of the bible is as bad as the writing of Rings of Power
Why dunk on the trilogy bruh?
@@adamstrange7884 If you mean "Lord of the Rings": it's a masterpiece!, I mean this crap by amazon breaking Tolkiens lore. They call it Rings of Power and it has nothing to do with Tolkien. They are bastardising his work. It's writers are shit like the bible writers.
DarkMatter 2025 does a great video on this event. The king looks like Trump.
Sounds like a poor A Fist full of Dollars rough draft!
A reminder that we are under New Testament law so we do not follow Old Testament rituals. I would love for you to dig in to the gospels and challenge that you may be afraid of your own conversion if you do. I once called myself an atheist and then I started reading the New Testament and within 4mos converted. I pray the same for you.
Another liar for Jesus.
As a former atheist myself, this atheist is simply capitalizing on the ignorance the majority have towards science, biology and archaeology.
Science: Stephen Hawkins who was the greatest atheist scientist of our generation accepted intelligent design and even spoke about The Fine Tuning of the Universe, wonder why he’s not attempting to debunk him ?
Biology: Richard Dawkins, the most known atheist scientist in evolutionary biology even accepted intelligent design, he even spoken about how our genes are coded information. Wonder why he’s not attempting to debunk him?
Archaeology: Titus Kennedy whose an archaeologist has published a book in reference to multiple artifacts validating biblical stories, Wonder why he’s not attempting to debunk him?
Charles Darwin who literally gave us the theory of evolution clearly stated that he was not an atheist, wonder why?
Atheism is only surviving on the ignorance of others. Michio Kaku, another famous atheist scientist has also accepted design, Neil Tyson another famous atheist scientist has even claimed that our universe is a simulation (design) programed by a programmer (creator)
ONLY two theories have been promoted to explain this design, 1) the multiverse and 2) an advance civilization, both without any evidence!
Atheists want you to trade in your belief in God for their own belief in things they can’t even prove to exist!
People, please do a proper investigation about the information your viewing or reading before promoting such ignorance as this video.
You got a source for you claims?
@@stefansmith4313 In an age of information, ignorance becomes a choice. Everything I’ve stated is widely available online.
@Antonio.R.O.C. and of course you're too much of a coward to put any forward because you know that they're from answers in genesis.
Go back to school, you clearly left your brain there.
Let me guess, you were doing drugs and you ended up in a church. Read your own Bible.
Hemant or friendly atheist Interesting, “the atheists have won, right?”, well try reviewing your analysis and interpretation of what you’ve just read, as you’ve pointed out “Surely that’s a contradiction and the atheists have won, right?”
Ok ‘right’, and don’t call Shirley
“Can God not make up His mind? He told Balaam to go pretend to destroy the Israelites as long as Balaam did whatever God said... and as soon as Balaam begins the journey, one of God’s hencemen is in the middle of the road with a weapon.”
Ok Hemant, where’s that written in Numbers 22?
“By the way, along with the serpent in the Garden of Eden, this is the only animal that ever speaks in the Bible.”
Don’t you mean ‘apart’?
By the way, the donkey is the only animal that ever speaks in the Bible, there’s no other.
“Well, if he was talking to a donkey, he probably should have said “nay.” Am I right? Because it’s a donkey? That was stupid.” Well, when your ass talks to you, you probably are allowed to say whatever you want. Since you’re “right”.
Of course, last I checked donkeys ‘bray’. But of course you’re right, especially with the stupid part.
Hello, maybe you are doing these videos because you are angry at god… maybe your angry at christian people who forced their believes on you, but you also force your believes against the Bible and god on people. So how would it be if you ask your questions god himself? Ask with a humbly heart and be sure that he won’t be mad that you can’t fully believe at him… but he sees your heart and also your will.. when you give him 1% trust he can move mountains. But be sure that he is a god of righteousness. He is love but he comes also as god almighty who sees everything and everyone and every wicked work of the world or mankind will come to light… so you need Jesus because no one is perfect and you don’t need it to be.. but there are very evil people out there some are less worse some more some kind some less some more but no one is love but him. You can be filled with his love and through him act and love on righteousness. Your soul won’t die dear brother.. Jesus lives and he loves you. Repent and believe that there is a heaven and there is a hell.
God bless you all
I fail to see how Hemant is forcing his beliefs on anyone. That’s ridiculous.
It’s ridiculous to suggest that Hemant is angry with someone he doesn’t believe exists. That’s like being mad at Batman.
I have repented - since I read the christian genocide manual, aka the bible, for myself instead of being ‘taught’ the palatable parts, I have repented of the decades I wasted worshipping the brutal, barbaric, bloodthirsty deity therein, and I am now saved from the shackles of crazy and abhorrent christian doctrine.
I'm angry at bad writing, backstories, lazy apologetics and so on. Even AFTER reading this chapter, and the previous one, and 2 Samuel 24, do you still automatically hold all these views of what is good, @Jesus spricht mit der Lieblichen - or have you any cause for concern? And Romans 1:18 seriously needs an overhaul already.
In 2 Samuel 24, one who can 'move mountains' cannot even exert self control over one silly census. And in Numbers 14:32, He has a temper tantrum, of epic proportions, threatening all of His 'chosen people' - and only calms down thanks to the argument of Moses, a mere HUMAN.
Who reminds Him basically that 'what will the other tribes think' - and thus to think, of His reputation? And he managed this twice, as I recall.
So yes, I am at least, a little miffed, over that. And my self confessed name, is not 'jealous'... unlike some.
How many times have we heard this tired argument from people like you? You don't make any effort to understand why atheists have no belief in a god, so you assume we must be angry with it. You're going about all wrong when you come there trying to tell us what we think, it reeks of both arrogance and ignorance.
And there it is right at the end, the veiled threat of eternal damnation. It always come down to that, doesn't it?