Men is special - this is reality, ever since eden when God told
the couple to have dominion over nature. And throughout Bible, it
is always God talking to human and human with God. You never read
animals talking with God freely, or God shown to be talking with
animals freely, except for a miracle. If you want to argue that
animals also talk freely with God and vice versa, you have to show
it.
U see, the argument is not whether does god talk to animals more
frequently or not but on whether do they create animals differently
from men. U CLAIMED they r not, and as such u SHOULD PROVE from the
scripture WHY ? SO far, u neevr come out with any evidence and want
me to do all the proving. If u can't prove the above, then it can
be safely said tat NOBODY KNOWS. And NOBODY can say tat men r
created in a special manner which is totally different from
animals. Why should I be the one showing it ? It is your claim
isn't it.
It is meaningless to discuss things which do not have a basis in
Scripture. You want to think animals are special then go ahead ..
I'm not stopping you. But if you want to argue about theology, then
I think we need to agree on certain things.
It depend on your definition of basis in scripture. So far u
never come out with any basis from the scripture to support yoru
stand
on the other hand, if you take the opposite stand, you have more
things to prove, and the onus is on your side. your argument now is
you think all animals were breathed the neshamat, which is never
explicitly mentioned and so you have to prove it.
U get it wrong. U claim tat men r created specially WITHOUT any
evidence. If there is no such evidence, it should be easy to
conclude tat animals may be treated the same as men and all your
arguments crash. If u do not prove it, then the best
conclusion is NOBODY KNOW, and as such u cannot give your sweeping
statement tat animals r created different from men[/b[b]]. If u
refuse to prove, then u r guilty of making sweeping statement and
as such u r still labeled as wrong
rI hope we at least agree that humans are breathed the
neshamat.
The argument is on whether animals r breathed the same thing,
not on men
God can communicate with animals, why not He is all powerful
right? But it is not mentioned animals can talk freely with God.
Freely as in like Adam and Eve liddat. It is not even mentioned
animals know there is God and so on.
As said before, snakes can talk with men. Snakes can talk.
Therefore we can conclude snakes can talk to god since god is
omnipotent. Whether God wants to listen is not important. I had
shown the capability, not on god's likes, preference or desire. God
prefer men more doesn't means god create men differently. U do not
talk with someone u do not like doesn't means u 2 can't
communicate
Do you see the problem your reasoning? 'cos I could very well
say the snake is Satan
U get the wrong idea of who should be proving and not
proving.
Snake means limbless scaly
elongate reptile; some are venomous
Satan means The profoundly evil
adversary of God and humanity, often identified with the leader of
the fallen angels; the Devil
These 2 r totally different beings. Unless one is an idiot, nobody
should have difficulty in seperating the 2. Throughout the bible
they mention they snake as simply snake. If u say he is the devil,
u have to prove it out, otherwise we should just have to take the
literal meaning from the scripture tat a snake is indeed just a
plain snake. If u do not prove it out, I can easily say the snake
many means Icemoon, or pink unicorn or a mozilla firefox and u
can't prove me wrong as well. If u do not prove snake=satan, then
logical person will take the literal meaning and treat snake as
snake.
My conclusion is this - let's assume the author of Genesis was
sane when he wrote it. Genesis showed us animals and human both had
nefesh chayah, but for human beings, the neshamat chayim was
mentioned. There is a reason why this (God breathed into us the
spirit of life) was mentioned for human - it is to tell us why
human beings are special compared to other creations/living things.
And we could see that humans are truly special, even after eden or
tower of babel. From earliest times men had sought to worship God
but till now we not found any concrete signs of that from
animals.
The point of conflict is tat I believe animals and men r created
the same. The only difference is men take the fruit of wisdom and
god practise favourtism to like men more than other creatures. It
does not necessary means tat animals r created differently. Why we
worship etc, perhaps because we eat the fruit of "wisdom" and had
some extraordinary "wisdom" and god had to guard against us.