Animals And Plants Can’t Do Anything Which Transcends The Limitations Of Matter.
That is ambiguous, it seems to me, because the pope knows his hebrew. Animals can think, reason, sense danger, experience happiness, sadness, and all of the things we mentioned in our definition of the soul. However, we can use general biblical principles to develop some clarity on the subject.
Living Souls Heredity God Seeing All The Earth Perfection Of Creation Animals, Types Of Mammals Whales According To Its Kind Wings Of Birds God Created The Great Sea Monsters And Every Living Creature That Moves, With Which The Waters Swarmed After Their Kind, And Every Winged Bird After Its Kind;
There is no mention in the bible of a pet heaven or dog heaven—and for good reason. Animals have their lives in god. God prohibited the killing of a man (exodus 20:13), but he placed no such restriction on the killing of animals.
And God Saw That It Was Good.
God marks the dropping of every sparrow. Then god said, “let us make man in our image, after our likeness. It is clear that god does care for the animals.
The Soul Is The Principle Of Life.
They both only said that animals have a spiritual nature which we can glimpse through their behavior. God is not simply redeeming a handful of lifeboat survivors but is renewing creation itself (romans 8). And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and.
We Must Love Animals Because They Were Entrusted To Us By God From The Beginning.
If god cares about the death of a common bird, he certainly cares about the needs of humans. It does not need redemption. Neither pope defined what they meant by soul, nor did they explain how or why animals acquire souls.
