Message from @TaterTot
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We are malicious and cruel as a species.
We do violence without need.
Animals do so with need and necessity.
And prove to me you have a soul and then say that.
When you can prove to me unequivocally you have a soul but an Animal doesn't I'll agree with you.
I have a soul because I am Human
That is circular reasoning.
No
It is the definition of it.
The Bible says this
The Bible says a lot of things. Does it say Animals have no soul?
Pretty sure it does not.
Animal do have soul. But people have to understand that every animal needs to care about his race first. That's how to world works
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
What you are saying is vanity. It's folly.
This proves nothing
We all die a mortal death? And?
Do you not understand the scripture?
I can read
Proverbs 12:10
Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Termites are not beasts
Animals have Soul
Yes, they are. It's all living things. As said in the Bible
You are trying to find a loophole to justify your convenience and lack of mercy for other life.
how tf both of you remembers the bible so good?
I have it open in a tab.
You are grossly misinterpreting scripture, a sin. Ecclesiastes is talking about the grand picture - that as us humans are the same as animals because we all die a mortal death anyways. We are made distinct by spirituality and the ability to manipulate nature.
It never once says that. Look at the Ebionites, James the Just. They refrained from eating flesh for a reason. Because it was sinful. To harm and kill other living beings. The Bible makes it very clear that all life is holy and of the divine. Only Human beings can be wicked and sinful.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Humans are allowed to kill animals for a variety of reasons
We have dominion
We manipulate nature to our will
If a termite is eating my house
It is a threat
And should be killed
“Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.” —Psalms 36:6
Human and Animal alike