2007-10-06 13:50:01 · 13 answers · asked by lindsey p 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
also, if animals have souls, do other living things, like plants and bacteria have souls also?
2007-10-06 13:51:25 · update #1
All life is sacred. And so is the exchange and cycle of living on this planet. One CAN NOT live without taking life. That is the cycle.
We end life to sustain life. Therefore, you must yank that carrot out of the ground, end its life - in order to live and feed yourself and family.
What is a sin (or an abomination) is to willfully waste or destroy life.
Slay the animal - pray over its spirit's journey. Be thankful for the sacrifice it has given you. Skin it and eat it. But DO NOT waste it. That would be a sin.
2007-10-06 13:57:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to the definition of soul that Aristotle used all living things have souls. Soul is the animating principle, that is, that which makes us alive. Thus anything alive has a soul. Aristotle also divided souls into categories. The human soul was considered the most developed.
2007-10-06 21:02:22 · answer #2 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All living creatures have a soul ; "the principle of life'
The HUMAN has an immortal soul.
2007-10-06 21:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by boofuswoolie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is tripartite (3 parts)--Body, soul & spirit.
Man's spirit is made to contain God, so that man could have God living inside of him.
Animals are bipartite (2 parts)--they have the body and soul (personality, mind, emotion & will), but they lack the ability to contact God or for God to live within them.
God made everything on the earth for man's use and man's pleasure. If we need it, we should take it and use it (not greedily or uncaring to the environment).
A children's song: Heaven's for Earth, Earth's for Man, Man's for God and that's what I am. I'm a man for God...
It isn't a sin to kill them because they were made for us.
Debbie
2007-10-06 21:06:42 · answer #4 · answered by TX Mom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes they do, and it's not a sin to kill them as long as you say a prayer for them first. Now to torture Allah's animals is another thing. Some Animals pray to Allah just like some of us humans do and they can ask Allah to curse whoever is harming them for no reason.
2007-10-06 20:59:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All living beings have souls; however, one must eat something. I say a prayer for forgiveness and of thanksgiving when I eat. But then, I'm a pagan.
2007-10-06 21:01:24 · answer #6 · answered by ThatGirl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work 100 percent of the time?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
Love and blessings
don
2007-10-06 20:53:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
I don't think Christians believe anything has a soul apart from humans. I really don't understand why that it is written in their archaic book.
2007-10-06 20:56:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I thought that Christians thought that only humans had souls.
2007-10-06 21:01:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals have a body and a spirit , they were put on this earth for man to have dominion over them . Man has a body , soul, and spirit like Jesus .
2007-10-06 20:54:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋