Are humans animals?

[NestForASparrow]

Yes in the scientific sense, but unlike animals we have a soul.

 

[Bob Carabbio]

"Science says we are mammals just like dogs or whales"

OF COURSE WE ARE!!!!! Why would there even be a question???

Of course we're NOT EXACTLY like Whales, OR dogs for that matter, but we clearly share many "Design characteristics" in common, and since we're "warm-blooded vertebrates" whose females possess "Mammary glands, we have a thoracic diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart, and we deliver our offspring live, nourish them with milk, and feature HAIR on our skins (to varying degrees) - we're "animals" belonging to the "Mammalia" class.

There's no problem with that in relation to any "Spiritual" issues, of course. This "Mammalian Body" of mine is a temporary "dwelling" for the eternal part of me - that will be living "Elsewhere" in a whole 'nuther "body" in a short time.

 

[InquisitiveSkeptic]

please post those stories on that humans living as animals that have been verified and recorded. the ones i have heard of arent exactly found to be truthful or unverifable.

from an actual acredited university or reliabel science organization :D

Feral children arent put in universities, due to their mental impairment due to lack of human development of the brain they are usually placed in care. or if safe to allow them, they are set free.

however, a careful google sarch left me with these

Peter, the Wild Boy of Hamelin

The Wild Girl of Champagne

Oxana Malaya, the dog girl of Ukraine

Traian Caldarar, the wild boy of Romanial


I will certianly be phoning up major universities to ask them of varified and documented cases incase these ones arent as such. We are not civilised by nature, and the extremist culture in iraq and other arab countries is a good demostrative of that If i cannot find a varifiable case of feral children.

try telling me teaching childre to use high powered weapons and explosives, to behead infedel is civilised. These extrenmists behave like animals in their mentality, the only difference is an animal kills for food, mating rights or territory

You can count on it I shall follow up on that.

 

[jasoncran]

tabula rasa. men are evil by nature not good.

tabula rasa are you familiar with that? i am aware of those stories. but that isnt exactly verified.

if we are only animals then what defines what is evil? and good as well?

do you see the delimma? if its man that says what is good then that is ludracris!

he is animal , and animals by nature arent known to be civil.

but happy hunting and please post that i will look and share with the persons that can answer that from my worldview.

 

[Bob Carabbio]

"men are evil by nature not good."

Maybe not as much "actively evil" as TOTALLY SELFISH, which naturally drives us to seek our OWN INTERESTS. Of course by God's standard that is "evil".

"tabula rasa are you familiar with that?"

Since we're not "Blank Slates" it's nothing but a "Moot" issue.

"if we are only animals then what defines what is evil? and good as well?"

Of course nobody said were were "ONLY" animals. Only that we ARE "animals" (mammalia) as opposed to being "Minerals", or "Plants".

And God defines good and evil according to His own system of evaluation. His is the only "opinion" that's important. Mine or yours doesn't mean spit.

SO there's no "dilemma" at all. Man has only to Choose between HIS OWN way, and God's way when he's given the opportunity to decide.

Simple as that.

 

[jasoncran]

upon birth we are.

a child by nature will sin, but does how does he learn to sin? by reading minds?
he learns how to sin from the enviroment around him and his nature is do it.

tabula rasa doenst contradict the bible only confirms it.

we have the potential to do evil or good and the knowledge to do both is taught.

the concept of original sin is that we are born with the sin nature

i do believe in totaly depravity as that is biblical. if the holy spirit is removed from the earth, what would constrain the evil?
see the book of revalation.

 

[Mysteryman]

upon birth we are.

a child by nature will sin, but does how does he learn to sin? by reading minds?
he learns how to sin from the enviroment around him and his nature is do it.

tabula rasa doenst contradict the bible only confirms it.

we have the potential to do evil or good and the knowledge to do both is taught.

the concept of original sin is that we are born with the sin nature

i do believe in totaly depravity as that is biblical. if the holy spirit is removed from the earth, what would constrain the evil?
see the book of revalation.

Or look back , just before the flood of Noah -- Evil continually