On the one hand you profess that there is only one Spirit and the idea that there are more an illusion , on the other hand you speak of souls. Soul is Spirit , and if there is only one Spirit then there are no souls but only One Soul which would be common to all creatures.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:45 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahh science huh. I may not know a lot but I am sure that science and > religion do not agree on many things, the existance of a soul being > one of them I for one would love to read any papers you have that > suggest that animals have souls. > > Anyhoo onwards. > > It is clear that what makes up all of what we may call a human takes > place in the brain. All that you or indeed I am, is due to the old > grey matter. Having said that however I am theist and so I belive in > the existance of the soul. > > So onwards to my initial question. What is a soul and do animals have > them? > > On Feb 18, 2:02 pm, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM, [email protected] >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > What is a soul and do other animals have them? >> >> > On Feb 17, 6:03 pm, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Will the goat on the butcher's table survive it's death ? Or will it >> >> die and be no more ? >> >> The point to be debated is whether a person is something separate from >> the body and using the body , if so it follows that every animal is >> also using his body though being separate from it. Some major >> religions though making a provision for the human animal to possess a >> soul deny that privilige to the lessor animals which is against logic >> as science would have it. Either all living beings have souls or none >> have it.
