Christians only please?

Question

Do you believe that humans are animals?

Im a christian. and in class this young girl asked me this question "are we animals." I said no but this other girl who is also a christian said yes and I asked her why she would say this. She responded by saying "were warm blooded so are animals and animals are mammals and so are we which makes us animals to." but I told this girl there is no way that humans are animals because nowhere in the bible does it say and I live by the truth and people need to understand there's a diffrence between religion and science but 2 other girls who were also christians said humans are animals so Im wondering how many other christians think this way.

Answer 1

Hi Zaira,
We were created in the "image of GOD". We have a soul. None of the animals have a soul that we are told about. I am sure that if they did, GOD would have told us NOT to kill them or mistreat them in any way. We are the masters of every animal on earth and are able to eat of every animal that is edible. Yes, we have a number of things in coimmon but that does NOT make us "one of them" in my book. You are certainly one sharp young lady. Keep reading, studying, and obeying GOD's WORD as we are told to do. Have a great week.
Thanks,
Eds, Ohio Christian

Answer 2

I'm glad you asked this question. The reason I'm glad you asked this question is because you are spot on in your reasoning.

The Christian girls saying this have been misled in their thinking. Science is simply mankind's attempt to explain what he doesn't understand, often times without relying on God. The Bible however, is the absolute Truth. Being warm blooded, and nursing our young does not make us animals. These are just things we have in common with animals. The classification of "mammal" or "reptile" or "arachnid" is a system created by man as a part of those attempts to explain what man doesn't know.

The significant difference between man and animal is that man has a soul and animal does not. Mankind was given dominion over the animals, not equal status. Christ suffered and died so our souls could be cleansed of sin. There is no mention in the Bible about Christ dying for the souls of animals. Indeed, there is no mention in the Bible of animals even having souls. They were used in the Old Testament as sacrifices and recepticles of sin.

Now, if you answer on your science tests that man is not an animal, then you will most likely get the question marked wrong. But you will have told the Truth. I leave it up to you and the Holy Spirit to decide if that should be your course of action.

Know I am praying for you.

Answer 3

I am a Christian and love my Lord Jesus with all of my heart and soul.... but I think we are animals.

Now, you must understand there are two definitions to animal in this context... the scientific, and what God meant. Now don't get me wrong, I don't leave God at the door of the Science classroom, I'm just saying that the majority of the scientific community define humans as animals. However....

Think about it-- when we say someone is an animal, when we refer to someone as an animal (i.e. "party animal," etc) we are calling them something non-human. This is the definition in everyday speech. By everyday speech's definition we still are not animals.

On the other hand, men and women of science have expanded the definition of animal to include you and I and the rest of the human race. We have been given a name: "homo sapiens," which makes us scientifically animals.

However, this has NO EFFECT whatsoever on what God meant. When God gave us control over the animals, He gave us control over the things He had created before us. God then created us in His image....

Answer 4

Animal: any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation

We are mammals, but with the above definition of animal, we would be considered a higher animal. That does not mean that we are a beast.

Human: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) : man; broadly : any living or extinct member of the family (Hominidae) to which the primate belongs

Answer 5

2 Timothy 4:3-4

3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Matthew 15:3

3Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

Romans 12:2

2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.


Remember He tells us many will walk in His name but not be with Him. Stand your ground, follow the book, never man, never a building. And remember.....Yahushua was a black sheep among the masses...so don't mind being one either.

We are told we are the rulers over the animals....so if that is so, how can an animal rule over animals? Is G_D human ruling over humans?

Answer 6

We are mammals (not a Bible word). In Genesis, God calls the creatures animals and the humans, man. As in mankind. We are not referred to as animals.

Answer 7

By definition, people *are* animals; however, homo sapien did *not* evolve from apes, or from any other living creature. Man was *created* in the image of God, including having a conscience and being conscious of our own existence and a sense of right and wrong.

All animals are *not* mammals, e.g., insects, birds, reptiles, fish, arachnids, snails, bacteria, and other invertebrates.

God created each creature "after its own kind."

Answer 8

I personally believe that "animal" is only a word and it cannot begin to illustrate the complexity that is humans and their workings. It's much too hard to apply such a word to us, simply because we also live, eat, try and survive, and compete for resources, etc. But if you are a die-hard Darwinist (which most Christians are not), you would probably say we are animals.

I have a science teacher who is a Christian, and somewhat conservative, and he would probably say we are animals. But it doesn't mean what you think it does, I don't think. We're very civilized, and usually animals are rabid and savage.

Answer 9

From the beginning with Adam, God created the humans to rule over all animals. Read what God says ............

Genesis 1
26 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, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

Answer 10

Man:
Man was created by the special act of God, in His own image, and is the crowning work of His creation. … The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every man possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.