I don't even know if I believe in souls but if they exist then animals have them. They show emotions and feel pain just like we do, they just can't talk like we do.
The short answer is no - God breathed life into man and created in him a soul. The long answer is there are Biblical truths that point to animals in the heavens - Horses are often mentioned as being ridden by the army of God.
They express affection and sense many things. we have a service dog who is right there to do what he can to help. Pick up something dropped. Open a door. find the wheel chair cut out in a curb.
Actually, animals ARE souls. The soul is the whole person, spirit and body. Animals have spirits (Ecclesiastes 3:21) and bodies, therefore they are souls.
The heart don't beat the lungs don't breath . All this can be made to happen with machinery and they would still be dead. All the chemistry is in place and the functions operational and still they would be dead. Death is the absence of the soul.
Actually, it's all to do with the brain. If the brain shuts down, you can't reinstate it. If you can keep the brain alive, however, you can pump the rest with machinery.
Well, religion is a closed system and refuse to lean anything. You are assuming that uneducated superstitious ancient herdsman from the Bronze Age are some how smarter than the highly educated scientists of today. That is hilarious.
How did you arrive at the concept that religion is a closed system? Religions deal primarily with morality , that is not to deny the mechanics of the universe. It was a Monk that discovered Genetics. Astronomy , Mathematics, Medicine , are the domain or Religious organizations . Religions have always been on the cutting edge of Science . Religion holds no problem with understanding science . It is the Pseudo Scientist that are insecure with religions.
Religion does not allow new information into their system and will not change their belief system.
You ideas of science and the church are completely wrong. The church killed many scientists and burned their manuscripts as well, The church has always had an enormous fear of science and rejected it though out history. The church was the most dominate force of the Dark Ages and set back humanity hundreds of years.
I would argue otherwise. It was the Church which threw a man under house arrest for saying the world revolved around the sun. But not because they rejected it right and wanted to be on the "cutting edge of science". "The cutting edge of science" leads to religious organizations to do circumcisions without painkillers and does them with the arguement that they make you cleaner which is actually false. The fact that the "church" discovered was due to the religious being the only people with two critical things: Free time and education. Astronomy is the basis of most religion and understanding astronomy requires a understanding of mathmatics. Religion is very rigid and not open to new ideas.
I wonder if ...BATMAN... Has ?
http://youtu.be/PgWUeI3AHrs
"The animals are your Little Brothers and Sisters. Love them as such"
Death is the absence of the soul.
Religions deal primarily with morality , that is not to deny the mechanics of the universe.
It was a Monk that discovered Genetics. Astronomy , Mathematics, Medicine , are the domain or Religious organizations . Religions have always been on the cutting edge of Science .
Religion holds no problem with understanding science .
It is the Pseudo Scientist that are insecure with religions.
You ideas of science and the church are completely wrong. The church killed many scientists and burned their manuscripts as well,
The church has always had an enormous fear of science and rejected it though out history. The church was the most dominate force of the Dark Ages and set back humanity hundreds of years.
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