God's
anger was kindled because he was going, and the angel of the Lord took his
stand in the road as his adversary. Now he was riding the donkey, and his two
servants were with him, The donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the
road, with a drawn sword in his hand; so the donkey turned off the road, and
went into the field; and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn it back onto the
road . . . The angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you struck your
donkey these three times? I have come out as an adversary, because your way is
perverse before me." (Num 22:22-23, 32 NRSV)
In this incident, the angel of the
Lord appears, but is not seen by Balaam but his donkey. Arguing like a certain
anti-Mormon who finds it difficult to believe that Joseph Smith’s brothers
could remain asleep while the angel Moroni appeared to Joseph in their shared
room, one could (being consistent,
something this critic prides himself on not being) argue that this makes the
above incident impossible—I mean, how could a glorious angel not be seen by
Balaam but by a mere ass?
Further, as discussed in this
post, an incident, as recorded in 2 Kgs 6 where an entire angel of angelic
beings remains invisible to a large group of people is recorded and affirmed by
the biblical authors.
It is funny that the Bible, taken to
be the
sole, formally sufficient rule of faith (á la sola scriptura) by
Evangelicals, serves as a great witness to the deceptive and inconsistent
arguments Evangelicals utilise against the LDS Church.
