So, why don't animals have souls? Well the ones that aren't homo sapiens anyway.
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∞;4921339 said:Because humanity is anthrocentric and naturally hostile to the idea that we are not the pinnacle of organic existence on this planet.
Implying I didn't go back to make my post more relevant to the question.Implying that organic existence is related to "the soul".
Out of curiosity, where does the Bible state animals don't have souls?
Genesis 1:26-27
26Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
The idea "created in God's image" refers to the inclusion of a soul. Image is not referring to a physical form, because God has no physical form (countless times in the Bible, God is referred to as a spirit). To be made in "His likeness/image" can only mean that we are given a soul along with our physical forms. Nowhere are animals said to have been made in God's image (IE, given souls).
Im a christian, yet I still believe my dog has a soul. He shows human emotions such as jelousy, saddness, worry, embaressesment, guilt, etc.
Genesis 1:26-27
26Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
The idea "created in God's image" refers to the inclusion of a soul. Image is not referring to a physical form, because God has no physical form (countless times in the Bible, God is referred to as a spirit). To be made in "His likeness/image" can only mean that we are given a soul along with our physical forms. Nowhere are animals said to have been made in God's image (IE, given souls).
Okay, so my question to you is if you believe in Evolution? If you do, you would believe that humans will continue to evolve with time.
So,
1.) Why would we, a race not excluded from evolution/adaption, be in the image of God?
2.) Will post-homo-sapiens have souls?
When we go past being what we currently are, obviously.What do you mean by post-homo-sapiens?
When we go past being what we currently are, obviously.
Were animals or humans created first?
Goes off of what Nevermore is saying and then some. The top is a link.
You mean creatures without webbed fingers, no pinkie toes, a Mandark-sized brain, hairless-skin and the agility of a baboon?
Okay, so my question to you is if you believe in Evolution? If you do, you would believe that humans will continue to evolve with time.
So,
1.) Why would we, a race not excluded from evolution/adaption, be in the image of God?
2.) Will post-homo-sapiens have souls?
If by evolution you mean "change over time", then yes I believe that.
I mean it as in we not being homo sapiens anymore.