Gordon Clark (taught philosophy at Butler University in Indianapolis) said: In one way this is reminiscent of Genesis 2:7. As God breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath or spirit of life, so too God sent forth his spirit into the animals.
Some people are afraid to say that animals have souls. They not only have souls, they are souls. Some people are afraid to say that animals have spirit. But Genesis 6:17 and 7:15, and Psalm 104:29, as well as Ecclesiastes 3:21 ascribe spirit to animals. Animals are souls. They are not just clay.
You are always saying God doesn’t speak to His people anymore. On something’s I would agree but on God speaking to His people I wouldn’t agree. Unless I’m crazy because He speaks to me all the time. About critters...in the beginning of reading His word one night I read the gruesome bloody passages of slaughter and the congregation covered in blood. The slaughter of the Lamb and in reading God’s commands I went to bed that night in dread and fear asking God, “do I even want to know You?” Considering the Lamb...It was so barbaric and violent and brutal at God’s Commands. Honestly, I went to bed that night crying and wishing I would have never been born ...to never have been. That night, like many others He spoke as clear as day, “You have pity for a Lamb. It
is My Son!” And then He said “I only use precious things to demonstrate My Son.” That was it. This morning, after all this time, from the beginning of hearing His voice, He gives this verse: Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
The word “precious” He seems to prefer.
He says in 1 John 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
He has a voice and we are to hear His voice. John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you
things to come. —and He does exactly what He said He would do.