if we not the same as animal....!!!!?

Question

That make we human can think... right??? so if i ask all about religion,,,, do u belive in ur religion cous ur born in it, people say soo or u really find the answer... and what is that answer??? (thinking is that make human number 1 on this world..)

Answer 1

If we spend our life engaging in animalistic activities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, we are not better than animals. This human form of life is meant for understanding God, for realizing who we are, for understanding our relationship with God. If we fail to do that, we have wasted our human life and in next life we will be born as animals. So, religion is that which distinguished human from animal, not some superficial show of being religious, but the real essence of religion - understanding who we are, Who is God and what is our relationship.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Of course we are animals! Sure we are special because we are the smartest animals on the planet, but other animals are special for things they can do that we can't. Like fish are special cause they can breathe water. Microbes are special cause they can survive unaided in space for months, or stay dormant for millions of years underground and come back to life. The list goes on. Plus, being the smartest animals on the planet doesn't make us not animals. If you follow fossil records since the first animals appeared, the trend has been for animals to become smarter and smarter. If our species gets wiped out from what ever reason; over millions of years of evoltion, there will be another species that becomes as smart or even smarter than us that will take over the earth and they too will probably think they are not animals!

Answer 4

Remie;

I came to Christ because I had made such a mess of my life by living according to my own will. I began to look around at people who had much better lives and compare them to who had troubled lives and came up with a majority of people living well, whether poor or rich, young or old, were operating from a Christian perspective.

Faith is putting your trust and belief into something or someone. God is faithful which means He is trustworthy. He gave us the Bible to teach us how to live with one another and how to please Him. Sin is defined as; Whatever is not from faith (in God's design and plan) is sin.

I don't think intelligence has much to do with it. I believe morality has a great deal to do with it. God created us in His image, meaning we are spiritual beings clothed in flesh. The flesh is part of our understanding of the 'me' concept but the spiritual me is what God judges. If we are acceptable we will be clothed in glorified flesh, or new bodies that will never die or be corrupted. The soul is equated with the mind, that is to say our intellect, our will, and emotions. The spirit is the life God breathed into us. So we are consisting of 3 elements, spirit, soul, and flesh.

Now, since we have an understanding that our flesh is not the highest concern for our well being, we can see that there may be moral judgments that disregard the benefit of the body. In this way we make decisions that seem foolish to the flesh concerned mind. But to the spirit concerned mind, the decision is only logical. Because we are affected so deeply by the desires of the flesh, we cannot trust our own hearts. For this reason we study the Bible to learn good judgment. Once this judgment is learned, many things that were confusing before make a great deal of sense.

Some have charged Christians with brain washing their patrons, but the truth is, our intellect is fully involved if we are to be good Christians.

Animals on the other hand have intellect, and they have flesh, but there is no morality for a dog. Even though he thinks, he doesn't consider right and wrong, only comfort and discomfort. He either obeys or he disobeys but he does not think, "Maybe its morally wrong to bark at two in the morning with all of the city trying to sleep." Whether or not he has a soul does not enter the equation without morality.

Answer 5

Yes, thought does make humanity special. Also their creativity, sense of right and wrong, justice, art, culture, use of technology, the abiltiy to self-examine and change.

Animals may have some things in common and I could see why evolutionists would come to some of the conlcusions they come to; but there is no denying Gods work.

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. -Romans 1:20

Answer 6

I was NOT born into my religion, I changed to what I am now, so no i do not believe because I was raised to believe. We are capable of free thinking and have intelligence to work things out for ourselves.
Animals are also intelligent, maybe in different ways to humans but intelligent never the less.

Answer 7

Human beings have the most highly developed intelligence on earth.Indeed we are on a higher plane then animals both in intelligence and in spirituality.Animals are spiritual beings too,just on a less of a level as humans,but intuitive and emotional as well.

Religion should not be believed just because you were born into it,any beliefs we form in our life should be after much careful thought,consideration,study,and experience.Just accepting something as truth,without having complete faith and understanding in your heart is simply just being a machine with a replay button.We are much more advanced then that.God put us on this earth to love eachother and discover truth,through wisdom,thought and study,which requires using our brains,not just being a blind follower of some kind of cultural,social or family preconcieved notion.We are to transcend all of that,and find the truth for ourselves.Both Individually and globally.

Answer 8

I was born into the Catholic church. I have since left there and went on to another religion altogether. I just wasn't comfortable there and I didn't want to raise my daughter in a religion that I didn't like. I had been to many Christian churches but I never really felt comfortable there either. I am now Kemetic Orthodoxy and while not everyone is comfortable there, I am.

Answer 9

Man is distinct and unique from the animals in that man (human) has an inner spirit living and dwelling within his/her physical body that upon death leaves the body and joins the spiritual world. That inner spirit is created by God and when the transition is made from the physical world into the spiritual world that is the eternal state we will exist in. Animals have no inner spirit but are just physical flesh and blood. True many people believe as they are raised to believe but everyone, I believe, reaches a point that they question their faith and beliefs no matter what they are taught. I believe that God makes himself very real to his believers from the inside out and not from the outside in as comes from teachings or preaching. God makes himself very real to each believer in that they have no doubt and that is through His Holy Spirit that dwells with each believer along with their inner spirit.

Answer 10

Um, I agree. I think.

People are definitely born into religion. That's why they call it indoctrination. A small subsection of those actually escape their parents' religion, (in free socieities anyway) and join other religions. The problem is, with a lot of religion, nobody can rationalize what they believe, they just know that they need it, and nobody can take them away from it.

... and then there's atheists and agnostics. :D