Lee , animals have a lessor degree of intelligence and a lessor physical adaptability than humans , as regard to the soul I don't see any need to invent the many as the one Spirit is enough for whole of creation.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hah yes I agree that it does appear a little contradictory. > > Let me attempt to explian it this way. > > You are a uniqeue individual, differant from me, and indeed every > other human on the planet. What is the root of this? > > It is clearly in the brain. The brain holds the essance of the > person, the physcolgy, the moral and beliefe structure, in short the > 'personality'. > > So then what is the soul? As you say it is my beliefe that soul is > spirit, further that only one spirit pervades the creation,that of the > creator. > > But spirit and matter are two differant things. > > A baking anology I think. > > I bake some bread and use some yeast, this yeast then is akin to soul, > and the flour akin to the all pervading creative spirit. After all > you cannot make bread without some form of flour. > > If I bake some bread without using yeast, it is still bread, it still > containes the flour, but bread bereft of yeast. > > So to is the differance between humans and animals. > > On Feb 21, 5:45 pm, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text -
