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Are humans animals?

Mysteryman said:
Didn't Dolphins win the Superbowl one year ? :rolling
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:biglol :hysterical


Yes, chimps, as well as other animals use tool and yes, KoKo understood sign language, just as my dog understands a wide variety of language and can communicate as well. (So do my cats, but they usually just want to communicate "Feed me, pet me, let me out.") But, and this is the huge thing, humans, while animal in nature, are far, far above the animals. We are made of the same substance, but we are not the same.

Both science and the the Scriptures are correct in the case of humans/animals. Humans are animals, made of the earth just as the others were. Humans are in the image of God, hence our wildly out of proportion intelligence and abilities versus the other animals.

:wave Yo Jeff!
 
StoveBolts said:
Happy joy,

What other living soul do you find that is instinctively compelled to worship something percieved as bigger or greater than itself? I have yet to see a shrine set up by a monkey...
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I don't think that humans instinctively worship anything. We are taught to. I didn't want to go to church as a child. I was taught to. Of course monkeys don't build shrines they aren't smart enough, and they don't have oppose able thumbs.
 
happyjoy,

I respecfully disagree with your over all view. True, we are taught 'forms' of worship, but the idea to worship came from somewhere. Look at it this way, you eat because something in you (hunger) tells you eat and when you eat, that something in you goes away until your body is hungry again. What we are taught, is what to eat, and what not to eat, not eating in and of itself.

You say that chimps are not smart enough to worship, I say they don't have the hunger inside of them to worship. Or if they do, we just don't recognize it ;)
 
StoveBolts said:
happyjoy,

I respecfully disagree with your over all view. True, we are taught 'forms' of worship, but the idea to worship came from somewhere. Look at it this way, you eat because something in you (hunger) tells you eat and when you eat, that something in you goes away until your body is hungry again. What we are taught, is what to eat, and what not to eat, not eating in and of itself.

You say that chimps are not smart enough to worship, I say they don't have the hunger inside of them to worship. ;)
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I can only speak from my own experience. I have no inner desire to worship anything. I have faith, but I don't worship. I don't feel God either needs or desires me to tell him how great he is.
 
jasoncran said:
a car and a motorcycle have things in common but they are very much different.
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True, but they're still both vehicles. I don't think that this is really an open and shut answer. In one case, no, we're not animals because God created us in His image, and made animals completely seperate. On the other hand, scientists grouped us in with animals because we have most of the same functions, i.e, walking, breathing, eating, communication, working bodily organs. So according to scientists, we are. And just because a scientist says something is so doesn't mean Christians should automatically dismiss it. So anyway, maybe in that sence, we're animals. But technically, maybe not b/c of what I said first about God creating animals separate from humans.
 
I understand happyjoy.

Have you considered this? That every thing you do, can be an act of worship?

Romans 12:1 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

John 4:23-24 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
When we think 'worship', it is not always in a liturgical setting.
 
StoveBolts said:
Mysteryman

This "Breath of life" has nothing to do with man becoming a "Living Soul". (Chay Nepech [sp])
I think the point is, that God not only 'formed' us, but he infused himself into all of humanity. This, "Breath of life" is in every single human being that has ever existed and could be looked at as the light that is each human being.
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Hi Jeff

Just for clarification, are you saying that Genesis 2:7 is written incorrectly ?
 
And just because a scientist says something is so doesn't mean Christians should automatically dismiss it.
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Yep, even a (gasp) scientist can be right about some things some of the time! :lol
 
lineaus classed us homo sapian rather primata. a thing that he regretted.

my attack on this isnt that we are animals but that fact that naturalism pushes that thats all we are, nothing more.

i will start a thread on this evoluntary physcology. yes that is a scientific endeavor :crazy
 
John said:
God made us different and separate from animals so even though we share similar body functions and composure we are infinity different. Of course Godless science will disagree and say we are just highly evolved animals, just one more reason why evolution and Christianity do not mix.
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No, a dog can not breed with anything outside of it's own species just as humans can't breed with anything that is not human. Humans can't be impreganted by monkeys, gorillas, snakes, jellyfish, tigers, domesticated cats, mice, frogs, spiders....and the list goes on.

"it is not possible for a human to impregnate a dog nor is it possible for a dog to impregnate a human.

First, the sperm and eggs in nearly all species have membrane proteins that recognize same-species gametes--human eggs will only recognize human sperm, goat eggs will only recognize goat sperm, etc. Secondly, for a human (or any other animal, for that matter) to be viable, it must have the correct number of chromosomes. Normal adult human cells have 46 chromosomes (23 derived from the mother, 23 derived from the father). Dogs have 76 chromosomes in each of their cells (38 of maternal origin, 38 of paternal origin). So, assuming that somehow fertilization of a human egg with a dog sperm (or a dog egg with human sperm) took place, the resulting zygote would have 61 chromosomes (23 of maternal origin and 38 of paternal origin (or vice versa))--this genome would be incompatible with life and therefore the embryo would spontaneously abort."
Source(s):
http://experts.about.com/q/Genetics-1795…
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-spec…
 
The reason we are not animals, is because God gave us the ability to have dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
 
Mysteryman said:
The reason we are not animals, is because God gave us the ability to have dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
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That fact alone doesn't make us not animals. It makes us top animal.
 
happyjoy said:
Mysteryman said:
The reason we are not animals, is because God gave us the ability to have dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
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That fact alone doesn't make us not animals. It makes us top animal.
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I always thought Lions were king of the jungle - :yes
 
Mysteryman said:
happyjoy said:
Mysteryman said:
The reason we are not animals, is because God gave us the ability to have dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
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That fact alone doesn't make us not animals. It makes us top animal.
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I always thought Lions were king of the jungle - :yes
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Well we can chop the jungle down.
 
The word "animal" is not even within scripture.

They are refered too as creatures. And even the word "creature" can be broken down to mean -- Living thing. But, Then the Word gets more specific. Like the words "beast" or "cattle" or "creeping thing"

Another key word that seperates us from these is --- Love
 
animals do feel atached to us.but that isnt the love you are talking about. i know you have seen dogs mourn for thier buddy or their owner when he or she dies. when i left for war my german shephard didnt eat for days!
 
Another key word that seperates us from these is --- Love
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Au contraire! I think that animals love far more purely than people do. Their love, especially the love of dogs, is a lot more unconditional than humans. 'Smatter of fact, IMO, the reason why God created dogs and cats was to give us daily examples of godly love.
 
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