Do animals have souls and or spirits?

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Beautiful dog. Bet he's a Baptist (looks like a Baptist).

He is my best friend, name is Blue. I adopted him shortly after my other dog, a Shepard mix died. Blue is a white Boxer with blue eyes. He is versatile, he hunts, points, guards the family, barks at strangers, is a friend to neighbors, can run real fast… generally when he gets the zoomies, an all around good boy!

 

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Darby is really stretching it with "living souls." I don't think that's what the Hebrew really says.

technically the Hebrew is "living soul" in Genesis 1:20.

And God will say the waters shall breed abundantly creeping things, the living soul, and birds shall fly over the earth, over the face of the firmament of the heavens. -- Julia E, Smith, Literal Translation, 1876.

 

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Here is a sample of what humans do to dogs! Whom ever did this is most certainly a creeping thing.

 

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Matilda is doing better now, praise God from whom all blessings flow.

 

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Jon, Blue is a Baptist from West Virginia. A Primitive Baptist to be exact.

 

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[John of Japan]

I agree. Canine Theology is not as developed as other theological systems. For example, Canine Theology is uniquely void of an anthropologic dread of death (no casting of derision upon suppression of breath).

Yet for all we know we about the topic, we have too few Canine theologians within evangelical Christianity. Serious scholarship seems to be lacking.

Indeed, a great need!! Theology is barking up the wrong tree in this matter.

 

[John of Japan]

technically the Hebrew is "living soul" in Genesis 1:20.

And God will say the waters shall breed abundantly creeping things, the living soul, and birds shall fly over the earth, over the face of the firmament of the heavens. -- Julia E, Smith, Literal Translation, 1876.

Actually, I took a second look, and you and Darby and Julia are right.