Some christians think that humans have souls and animals don't, but humans are animals?

Question

So, christians tell me that i have a soul and that my cat doesn't, but my cat and i are both mammals.
How can they say that humans aren't animals?
What definition is given for an animal to clearly set it apart from a human?
And don't tell me my pets don't have deductive reasoning, among other things, my cat clearly knows that a car is dangerous without having to nearly get run over by each and every car that she comes near (she is not afraid of the noise).

The Man: don't christians believe that modesty only came about for humans once they ate from the tree of knowledge?

Michael F: You misunderstand, I am asking a question. I am not trying to prove anything.

Witness: Are you telling me that animals can't survive without man? You say my cat doesn't lay out my clothes for me.. have you ever heard of guide dogs, and what about those monkeys who are trained prepare meals etc for other disabled people?

Elaine30705: Doesn't that make them more intelligent?

The Man: No, as we have just established that is your belief, not mine. I was merely pointing out how silly your argument was as you believe humans started out immodestly.

Answer 1

If there are souls, my cat has twice the soul a Fundie has.

Answer 2

nicely in case you have been a puppy proprietor you would be conscious of that animals to sense sense sorry approximately and soreness and that they even understand death and sense lose. the difficulty is animals do have souls the 1st animals have been created the comparable way as guy their bodies got here from the earth and the breath of life breathed in them by God. however the adaptation between guy and animals is diverse for guy replaced into created in purely like God on a similar time as animals have been created for guy by God. The Christians as you call them that say that animals have not have been given any souls have insecurities approximately themselves believing that if animals has a souls they are above guy which isn't the case, yet in accordance to the Bible animals have souls.

Answer 3

All living things have souls. Whether they are immortal souls, I have no idea. However, there are animals that show dignity and wisdom and animals that show foolhardiness. This could be a sign of older and newer souls. I only have direct experience with a human soul. Mine.

Answer 4

but the bible donesn´t denied that the animals are souls that is why they were used as sacrifice in substitution of humans.
Christianity doesn´t want to admitted cause creates the problem were do animals go after dead to heaven or hell?

Answer 5

None of us can be clear on exactly what a soul is or even if it exists, but I agree, whatever the case may be, there's no difference between us and the rest of the animal kingdom.

Answer 6

JOB 12:7-10

You have only to ask the cattle, for them to instruct you, and the birds of the sky, for them to inform you. The creeping things of earth will give you lessons, and the fish of the sea provide you an explanation: there is not one such creature but will know that the hand of God has arranged things like this! In his hand is the SOUL of every living thing and the breath of every human being!

PSALM 50:9-11

I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine.

PSALMS 50:10-11

For all forest creatures are mine already, the animals on the mountains in their thousands. I know every bird in the air, whatever moves in the fields is mine.

PSALM 136:25

...And who gives food to every creature. His love endures forever.

PROVERBS 12:10

A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal

ECCLESIASTES 3:19-21

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, man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth? (NOTICE THIS IS A QUESTION AND NOT A STATEMENT)


LUKE 12:6

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before god

Animals do have a soul and they are in Heaven...Jesus and His army are coming back on horses!

Answer 7

Christians think animals don't have souls! do they really believe it ? wow that's not clever! of course they have souls

Answer 8

Excellent point...

(Don't wanna say too much- the fundies will report me for having a worthy opinion...)

Answer 9

Animal,s have a soul,they just do not have a concept of God like human,s do.

Answer 10

Fundies don't like to think of themselves as animals. They're special, god made them that way. The bible told them so.
And the certainly didn't evolve!!!!

Right?