It is generally believed by Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Islam, Christianity) that man is the only animal on Earth with an immortal soul (please correct me if I'm wrong). If billions upon billions of other creatures are allowed to live and die with neither salvation nor comdemnation, why is it so hard to believe that there is any other purpose for humans than to live, multiply, and die?
2006-07-28 06:51:02 · 6 answers · asked by Nobody 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, that should have read "... there ISN'T any other purpose..."
2006-07-28 06:54:08 · update #1
I agree that our time on Earth should be well spent, but also that a good deed is it's own reward. If I can help someone, it's because it's the right thing to do, not because I think it will get me a free pass into Heaven.
2006-07-28 07:05:02 · update #2
There's more to life than living, multiplying, and dying. Humanists and many atheists believe that each person can invest his or her own life with meaning. Much of life truly is what we make it.
2006-07-28 06:57:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it is the general belief in those religions that God said we DID have a soul to save, and that the animals did not. It is the general belief that man was created with even more favor than the angels, in those religions, and hence had the opportunity, free will, to inherit the kingdom of God.
So, no, to those religions, whose main basis IS the sould, and heaven, and hell, it is not a plausible argument.
2006-07-28 06:56:51 · answer #2 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hbr 9:27 And because it is appointed unto men as quickly as to die, yet after this the judgment: Rev 20:11 ¶ and that i observed an incredible white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there became discovered no place for them. 12 and that i observed the ineffective, small and super, stand in the previous God; and the books have been opened: and yet another e book became opened, that's [the e book] of life: and the ineffective have been judged out of those issues that have been written interior the books, in accordance to their works. Rev 20:15 And whosoever became no longer discovered written interior the e book of life became solid into the lake of hearth. Jhn 3:sixteen For God so enjoyed the international, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shouldn't perish, yet have eternal life. Jhn 3:17 For God sent no longer his Son into the international to condemn the international; yet that the international by using him must be saved. Act 4:12 neither is there salvation in the different: for there is none different call below heaven given between men, wherein we would desire to be saved. Hbr 2:3 How we ought to flee, if we forget so super salvation; which on the 1st began to be spoken by using the Lord, and became shown unto us by using them that heard [him]; 4 God additionally bearing [them] witness, the two with signs and indicators and wonders, and with divers miracles, and presents of the Holy Ghost, in accordance to his very own will? Jhn 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life: and he that believeth no longer the Son shall no longer see life; however the wrath of God abideth on him.
2016-12-10 17:19:05 · answer #3 · answered by herzog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
particularly when you realize that the "food chain" requires a string of animals being ground up raw and alive and in great pain when they die; remember a frog eats a fly a gull eats a frog, a bobcat eats a gull, well u get the idea. Imagine, maybe God grinds up people by letting the angels have them for dinner LOL its the food chain.
2006-07-28 08:57:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love ya baby
2006-07-28 06:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by the holy divine one 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is much more likely that there is no heaven.
2006-07-28 06:54:48 · answer #6 · answered by Alex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋