Do all of a supposed God’s creations have souls? If so, did dinosaurs have souls?
Also, did humans always have souls? Or did the soul evolve as did the human?
Do all theists believe in the soul of humans?
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The Hebrew word for “breath” is ruach - also often translated as “spirit”. This is where the “soul” comes from, and (according to Genesis) humans are the only ones to possess it. This is also why we are made in God’s image - we have his Spirit within us…
Gp
Good question, the crationists have the neatest answer, in that it all started about six thousand years ago and that only humans have souls, unfortunately the creationist position lacks certain other qualities.
If Barney can be used as an archaeological example, I would have to say that no, dinosaurs are decidedly soulless.
Taking the question more seriously for a moment (despite my better judgment); if humans do have souls, then it would be likely IMO that all animals do as well, and the whole bunch of us would always have had them. There is no physical construct to evolve, and evolution (more accurately selection) occurs on a physical level.
Is this another attempt to attack religion using a different tact?
Are you implying that Lolo has an agenda here? :eek:
surely not.
If all animals have souls, is it wrong then to kill any animal?
Many people feel it is. IMNSHO, I find nothing wrong with killing animals so long as the killing is justified(be it for necessity et al).
But if carnivores know no other way to survive, is it a sin for them to kill other animals? are lions sinners? sharks? or is it necessity?
What, then, is the point of creating a soul if it will undoubtedly be destroyed?
If the God created the dinosours, why did he destroy them?
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I need not attack religion. It collapses upon itself.
Yes!-- They had Dino-souls!!
Actually, I fall into the belief that some animals do possess souls, as some animals are better people than so-called real humans. Now, i don’t think they get the same moral code as us to follow, as certain impulses are for them impossible to suppress. Now, dinosaurs are suffeciently cool enough that i think they would make a neat addition in heaven, so i bet some of them are there. But you never know about such things.
And i think Barney would be an example of a Dino that sold it’s soul for fame, and paid the price b becoming lame. Don’t make deals with the devil, kids, don’t be like Barney!
Lions and sharks can kill so long as they attend confession regularly or tithe 10% of their income for the expressed purpose of purchasing indulgences.
Souls [should they exist] by definition survive beyond physical death; your point about them being ‘destroyed’ eludes me.
Do you have study hall this period?
It’s taking a long time to do that, don’t you think?
I should have be more careful. Why create a body with a **soul[/], only to destroy the body?
The popular human concept of “be good here get rewarded later” seems to be directly tied in with having a soul as the soul is transcendent.
Why create a transcendant soul with a body so readily destroyed?
What is the point of a soul-having rat?
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Yes.
have you ever destroyed an ant pile?
Nope, I wouldn’t dare; those little critters have souls 
They had 250 million years to evolve to the point where they could shoot down asteroids. Their failure to do so just shows them as slackers. Sloth is one of the deadly sins. Therefore–> dead dinos!
I see the wise ass patrol is out and about today.
Do not for a moment think such behavior goes unappreciated.
It is, in fact, a very good question Lolo, to which we’ve not yet done justice; I’ll be back later to try again.
If all animals have souls shouldn’t a few of them be aware of God?
and we can say they are not insomuch as they show no signs of ever worshipping God.
no churches, temples, etc.
Perhaps this is merely an indication that god does not delight in temples etc.
From the Creationist standpoint, it seems to me that there is an easy answer (as Mangetout alluded earlier): God created Man with souls, and likely did not give them to animals.
What I would be interested in is how Christians who allow for evolution to have occurred account for the possibility of an afterlife.
Note: No agenda here! Honest curiosity!
Specifically, the afterlife (heaven, hell, whatever) requires some sort of intangible “soul” (or spirit, or something) to remain after death. If one accepts evolution, then at what point did Man obtain a soul (that is, at what point would early man have been considered by God to be worthy of the addition of a soul)? Or where they there all along, therefore being present in all (animal) life? What, if any, are the moral implications of animals having souls?
an indication religion collapses upon itself?
I don’t understand; please elaborate.