If animals don't have souls, and I genetically engineer a half-human/half-chimpanzee, would it have a soul?

Question

Also, would it be eligible for Salvation?

Answer 1

What makes you think all humans have souls anyways?

Answer 2

No creature is "half-this and half-that". We may describe it that way, because that's convenient. But ultimately every creature is entirely its own self, within its own nature.

I don't suggest you should try your little experiment, and if you did, I doubt it would ever work. But if you did and it worked, the real question would be: "is this being human"? (That is just about the most difficult question in epistemology/metaphysics: define what it is to be human...)

In any case, the "soul" is only a shorthand for describing that which makes a living being into a human being. It's not a "part" of that human being. It's just a description of the human being as human.

Think about it this way: when a man dies, is the corpse on the bed still a human being? Certainly it has the shape of one and *most* biological functions are more or less intact. Yet, if you've ever experienced being present at someone's last hours, there is a real sense of "otherness" once the person dies; it's quite striking.

Now let me in turn ask a question: is a person with Down syndrome a human being? If you've ever been in contact with such a person, you will agree with me that their humanity is transparent in a way that it often isn't in a number of our fellow men... Are human beings with Down syndrome eligible for Salvation? Most certainly, without the slightest doubt.

Answer 3

Read this Bible passage:
Eccl. 3:18-21 I also thought about the human condition—how God proves to people that they are like animals. For people and animals share the same fate—both breathe and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless! Both go to the same place—they came from the dust and they return to the dust. For who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth? NLT
P.S. I don't believe that you will ever create a half animal/half human. Good luck!

Answer 4

the subject that a lot of people have with that's they see an animal alluring in habit that seems to be extraordinarily human, while in actuality, people are showing habit that's already used via the animals. Apes have continuously had the skill to communicate in one style or yet another, and Chimpanzees have engaged in habit which could in basic terms be defined as religious prepare. considering there is no such ingredient by using fact the soul although, i could could say no. in basic terms undergo in suggestions that people don't have one the two.

Answer 5

This could be a good question if in fact you are not horsing around, someone could actually learn from a question like yours--it would be nice if you are serious.

Animals are souls , humans are souls the word soul in the Bible is synonymous to the words , being, creature, breather:

Birds, fish, animals:
NIV Gen. 1
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living CREATURES(my cap), and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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MAN:
NIV GEN. 2
7 the LORD God formed the man [e] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living BEING(my cap)

DARBY TRANSLATION
20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living SOULS(my cap) and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

21And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good

GEN. 2:
7And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living SOUL(my cap)

Your combo would not work!

Answer 6

I think that animals have souls too. They also cross over. I will see my Shadow again.

Answer 7

It would have a half-soul and be worthy of half-salvation, or some bullshit like that. =)

Answer 8

No it would go to HELL Its unholy and all that jazz. who would have known the antichrist was a geneticly engineered half man half money! MONKEY SATAN AHHH head for the hills!@

Answer 9

I have no idea but that is a good question. I doubt that it would though.

Answer 10

It can't be done.