If I as a human have a soul then wouldn't all animals have the same?

Question

Thanks to those of you that believe life is lifwe no matter where or what.
Shall we some day loive in harmony.

Answer 1

My cat has a soul and seven lives...

Answer 2

I believe that all living things (people, animals and plants) have souls.

I have lived with animals my entire life and I have seen them love and play and mourn, and I don't see how they can do all of that without a soul. I have also seen them hate and how can they both love and hate without free will?

I have also observed gardeners and gardens. Some people with a green thumb talk to and touch their plants and the plants thrive. Studies have been done confirming this. The only explaination I have is that plants have something beyond their physical existance (otherwise talking wouldn't work) and I'm going to call this "something" a soul for want of a better word.

I think that every living thing on the planet has a bit of the divine in it. And that little spark of divinity is a soul.

Answer 3

the animal has a soul, but man has a spirit,
In this way it is correct, although it now appears strange to you because you often praised the Saul. But, it is only being tied to the known expression which gives an uniting feeling when you hear the word Saul ,as a consequence of the songs, which you always sought to weave around the term ‘’soul ‘’.
Now praise the spirit instead, and soon the expression will rise brilliantly before you, much clearer still and purer than the expression Saul could ever give it to you

Answer 4

Yes.

The soul is the living combination of the body and the spirit of life. Since all living things have a spirit and a body of tissues they have souls.

Ecclesiastes 3
18 I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath (sic, or spirit); man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"

Answer 5

You're right, the Bible tells us that animals and sea creatures are living souls.

Genesis 1:20, 24
And God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.” ...And God went on to say: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind.” And it came to be so.

It's actually our life here and now that is a soul, and there is only Gods spirit that goes back to Him. But that is his energy that we use to live and not part of our consciousness.

Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.

Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then the dust returns to the earth just as it happened to be and the spirit itself returns to the [true] God who gave it.

The idea that you have a spirit soul inside you that lives on after death is a lie though, it's the first lie that was told by Satan the Devil.

Genesis 3:3:4
3 But as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU do not die.’” 4 At this the serpent said to the woman: “YOU positively will not die.

Although it is abvious that we do die, people say 'oh, but you have a soul that lives on and you don't really die'. The Bible tells us that our only hope is in the future resurrection, after armageddon, until then we are just dead and not concious of anything.

Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10
5 For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten...10 All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She´ol, the place to which you are going.

Acts 24:15
and I have hope toward God, which hope these [men] themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

2 Timothy 2:18
These very [men] have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some.

Thats is why it is so important to learn about God and Jesus through Gods Word the Bible.

John 17:3
This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

In the Hebrew Scriptures, the English word “soul” comes from the Hebrew word ne´phesh, which appears over 750 times. Its equivalent in the Greek Scriptures is psy·khe´, which appears over 100 times. The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures consistently renders these words as “soul.” Other Bibles may use a variety of words. Some of the ways the King James Version translates ne´phesh are: appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, dead (body), desire, heart, life, man, mind, person, self, soul, thing. And it translates psy·khe´ as: heart, life, mind, soul.

The Bible calls sea creatures ne´phesh: “Every living soul that is in the waters.” (Leviticus 11:10) The word can refer to land animals: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast.” (Genesis 1:24) Hundreds of times ne´phesh means people. “All the souls who issued out of Jacob’s upper thigh came to be seventy souls.” (Exodus 1:5) An example of psy·khe´ being used this way is 1 Peter 3:20. It tells of Noah’s ark, “in which a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water.”

The Bible uses the word “soul” in many other ways. Genesis 9:5 says: “Your blood of your souls shall I ask back.” Here the soul is said to have blood. Exodus 12:16 says: “Only what every soul needs to eat, that alone may be done for you.” In this case the soul is said to eat. Deuteronomy 24:7 speaks of a man “kidnapping a soul of his brothers.” Surely it was not an immortal soul that was kidnapped. Psalm 119:28 says: “My soul has been sleepless from grief.” So the soul can even lose sleep. The Bible also shows that the soul is mortal. It dies. “That soul must be cut off from his people.” (Leviticus 7:20) “He may not come toward any dead soul.” (Numbers 6:6) “Our souls are to die.” (Joshua 2:14) “Any soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed.” (Acts 3:23) “Every living soul died.”—Revelation 16:3.

Clearly, the Bible’s use of ne´phesh and psy·khe´ shows that the soul is the person or, in the case of animals, the creature. It is not some immortal part of an individual. Indeed, ne´phesh is even used of God himself: “Anyone loving violence His soul certainly hates.”—Psalm 11:5.

"For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. 20 All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust. 21 Who is there knowing the spirit of the sons of mankind, whether it is ascending upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it is descending downward to the earth?" Ecclesiastes 3:19-21

Answer 7

No. God made man different from the animals in that sense. We have an animal type of body, but inside have a eternal soul that never ceases to exist. This is why the Bible approves of eating animals and not humans ..

Answer 8

I quote from Genisis 1:26-27 :

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
'unquote'

God made man in His own image. And, later on in Genisis 2:7 it says God breathed life into man. Then, only humans were tempted. Now, only humans have a sinful nature. Animals have no free will, they obey God. They answer to God, and do not sin against Him as humans do.

So, humans, being sinful, need a savior. Animals, already in obediance to God, have no will to sin. But we do. So we have souls, and Christ has come to save us. Praise be His Name.

Answer 9

What does being human have to do with animals? Why not just ask if animals have souls? Animals are stupid. They know how to eat and reproduce. How do you know humans have souls? The bible says the meek shall inherit the earth, maybe it's the stupid animals that don't know any better that will take over.

Answer 10

I wonder the same question..in some religions they dont believe that animals have souls..If they didnt,how would they move,see,hear,or be hungry?How could they almost do anything if they didnt have a soul?Well,they are God's creatures,and had he not created them to live?

Very good question though!
Deep thinking.

Answer 11

on a question as complex concerning the soul, wouldnt it be wise to have an agreed upon definiton, otherwise somebodys talking about oranges while joeblow s talking about apples, and wait a sec! linda may be talking about tangerines....