EVERYTHING is made of SPIRIT. And spirit has INTELLIGENCE and EMOTION. Look at the atoms that make everything material.They're ALIVE! They move around and stuff!
The Book of JOB says:
"Ask the Earth and it will teach you,
and the birds of the air, and they will teach you,
and the fishes of the sea will declare it unto you!"
2006-09-25 09:58:24 · 18 answers · asked by zenbuddhamaster 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Humans are animals, so therein lies the answer.
2006-09-25 09:59:48 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its such an arrogant view to assume that humans have souls but animals don't when a) we're decended from them, b)many have similar brain structure to us, c)it has been shown that animals can have feelings, and also that they can cooperate in societies etc. a basic form of morality.
That leaves 2 alternatives both of which are much better 1) Both animals and humans have souls 2) Neither animals, nor humans have souls because souls don't exist (my personal opinion).
2006-09-25 17:04:10 · answer #2 · answered by Om 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If each atom has a soul, then a mouse would have something like 10^23 souls.
2006-09-25 17:02:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When my cat runs into my bedroom cause she knows I'm there, jumps on the bed and lies down next to me, and wraps her little paws around my leg and looks at me with those incredibly loving eyes, then I KNOW that there's a soul inside that little ball of fur, and that she loves me, how could a soulless thing show me so much love? I've had enough pets like that to be convinced that animals do have a soul.
2006-09-25 17:03:12 · answer #4 · answered by brooke 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
everyone believes in many different things, no matter what religion they are in...
To me every livin thing has a soul trees animals plants, even earth itself has a spirit and that spirit is made of tiny souls of humans, jinns, animals and plants and watever is living in here. we all make the spirit of earth..
2006-09-25 17:30:25 · answer #5 · answered by ocean princess89 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sort of, though not like humans do, exactly. its kinda a grey area between spirits and souls.... (souls are made of spirit energy, some "spirits" are little more than simply things that have spirit energy in them, souls are like a super-high density spirit energy specially formed....)
so yes and no.
and it depends on what animals you mean.
and it doesn't have to have a soul for it to have things to teach, in the sense that that quote refers to.
2006-09-25 17:01:04 · answer #6 · answered by RW 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, according to judaism, animals have souls anyway.
Do Animals Have Souls?
http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=192&o=2468
Pet Afterlife?
http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=165&o=1981331
2006-09-25 17:01:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes, both fish and plants and all living things have souls, humans however are the only ones with divine souls
2006-09-25 17:47:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If soul is defined as the 'principle of life, feeling, thought and action', then, "Yes", animals have souls.
2006-09-25 17:00:22 · answer #9 · answered by Yngona D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, animals have spirits, but they are less advanced than ours. Our spirits are called souls.
2006-09-25 17:00:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Last time I checked, humans were considered part of Kingdom Animalia. If animals don't have souls, then humans don't have souls.
2006-09-25 17:02:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋