No such a thing as a stupid question..... or is it?

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This is the thread where all questions are allowed. And I could fill this thread alone because I have multiple times more questions than answers. I am every lecturer's nightmare with all the questions I have!

It is also a thread for all those that thing they know every answer to every question (do I dare to mention names?)

My first question is:

If you can speak an unknown language in tongues, can you write and read it, too?
 
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This is the thread where all questions are allowed. And I could fill this thread alone because I have multiple times more questions than answers. I am every lecturer's nightmare with all the questions I have!

It is also a thread for all those that thing they know every answer to every question (do I dare to mention names?)

My first question is:

If you can speak an unknown language in tongues, can you write and read it, too?
Since the Bible tells us that those at Pentecost HEARD their languages being spoken (presumably by the same Apostle at the same time) it is doubtful.
 
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This is the thread where all questions are allowed. And I could fill this thread alone because I have multiple times more questions than answers. I am every lecturer's nightmare with all the questions I have!

It is also a thread for all those that thing they know every answer to every question (do I dare to mention names?)

My first question is:

If you can speak an unknown language in tongues, can you write and read it, too?
No, i've never heard of that. I suppose God can use you to write in a foreign language but i haven't heard of it happening.
 
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Since the Bible tells us that those at Pentecost HEARD their languages being spoken (presumably by the same Apostle at the same time) it is doubtful.
Thank you for the answer! It was a serious start to this thread.

Did Adam and Eve have a language before they ate from the tree? And if so, are all languages derived from that original language?
 
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Thank you for the answer! It was a serious start to this thread.

Did Adam and Eve have a language before they ate from the tree? And if so, are all languages derived from that original language?
I tend to believe that all human languages came from that.
 
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An addition:
We believe that most people in that age could neither read nor write, so it seems it would have been a little pointless to include those two features.
 

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Thank you for the answer! It was a serious start to this thread.

Did Adam and Eve have a language before they ate from the tree? And if so, are all languages derived from that original language?
Since Adam named all of the animals before he and Eve ate from the tree it appears that there was a language that was spoken unless it was telepathy but even that would require a language. To me it seems logical that all of the languages were derived from the original. God did say "let's make man in our own image and likeness".
 
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Languages:
We all actually began our communal existence on Earth with Noah's family. And since the eight occupants of the boat were one family, even though by marriage, they all probably only spoke a single language that worked for them. We are told that the different languages developed from that point.
 
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It seems like I am the only one with questions here....

Why do you feel with your heart, when it is the brain that does the judgment to the input given and therefore controls the feeling and the feeling is a result of thoughts?
 
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It seems like I am the only one with questions here....

Why do you feel with your heart, when it is the brain that does the judgment to the input given and therefore controls the feeling and the feeling is a result of thoughts?
Both the brain and the heart are but "mechanical", as it were. Our emotions seem to stem from whatever "spirit" is.
 
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The different languages came to existence according to the Bible at the tower of Babel. It could be that they were all isolated languages that through co-existence have influenced one another. Like with pidgin languages they needed to be able to trade with one another. Or they might have had a Lingua Franca close to the original spoken language.

Languages:
We all actually began our communal existence on Earth with Noah's family. And since the eight occupants of the boat were one family, even though by marriage, they all probably only spoke a single language that worked for them. We are told that the different languages developed from that point.
 
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Although we do not know for certain that the Bible is told to us in true linear order, languages came in Genesis 10 (around the latter parts.) The tower of Babel came in Genesis 11.
 
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Can an animal think or does it just respond to stimuli and rekognition or by instinct?
 
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The ingenious Genisis?
 
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Can an animal think or does it just respond to stimuli and rekognition or by instinct?
It's just a personal opinion, but I am convinced they can think and reason.
 
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You seem to have all the answers... I have to find a more difficult one.
It's just a personal opinion, but I am convinced they can think and reason.
Is the bottomless pit mentioned in the revelations a proof that the Earth is flat?
 
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You seem to have all the answers... I have to find a more difficult one.

Is the bottomless pit mentioned in the revelations a proof that the Earth is flat?
It is an example of allegory and metaphor..... as is most of the book.
 
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Atleast they react to a stimuli. But does it think? Hillarious, though.
it thought enough to see his cucumber was not a grape

and that its not fair the other monkey got grapes