Ones Soul is an image of God.
Disagree.
Man is a Body/ Vessel, shapened / formed from dust of the Earth.
(The minerals, elements, IN the Earth, are the Same minerals and elements IN a Man.
And why the food provided for Man comes from the Ground, that soaks up the minerals and elements from the Ground and transfers those minerals and elements to a man(when eaten), to replenish and maintain the health of a man. And why God taught man What to eat, and how to rest the land, and how to harvest. And now, how the world now mass produces, does not rest the land, loads the land with poison, harvests before ripe, ships thousands of miles, sells in the marketplace. And the food, is without the minerals and elements to sustain optimum health. So man eats and eats filling his gut and is never sustained with the minerals and nutrients to satisfy...fat, unhealthy, diseased people!)
The Body shall die.
The heart in the body is a vessel designed as a pump. It receives the blood, oxygenates the blood and sends the blood to the kidneys to be filtered of waste and water. Kidneys sends the waste to the bladder to expell the waste.
That's the short of the clinical.
The Spiritual is the heart is inner most important Vessel...
Clinically: it maintains the health of the Blood.
Spiritually: the Blood Is the LIFE of the Body.
Spiritually: the Heart Is the Vessel, that contains a man's NATURAL spirit, (which IS a man's NATURAL "Truth". Natural "Truth" is an absolute, that a man, without Doubt Believes.
Spiritually:
It is the Heart, The Blood, the LIFE of a man; that IS subject to Die...and God has Offered A WAY, for the heart and spirit to become Changed: by Becoming Born Again; from a Pure Seed; Gods Seed, and the corruption of a man's Seed, that procreated the corrupt blood and spirit to become DEAD.
A body in its beginning stage of development comes from corrupt seeds of a corrupt human, male and female. The babe in the Womb is a dependent upon its mother's blood, indirectly filtered through a placenta.
That babe is not an Individual, until separated from the placenta. And the placenta is then separated from the Womb as waste.
At the moment the child is birthed, is when I believe the child, as an individual body, receives From God, Gods Breath of Life... in a SOUL, blown into his nostrils, and begins functioning, as an individual, lungs breathing, heart beating, blood flowing, organs functioning, as an individual person.
While the babe IS alive; it has the corrupt blood, (body of Flesh) but also Life from God;
In my opinion; because there IS Life in the soul, in the body...there IS enough of Gods life in an individual,; to grow and mature and Naturally KNOW what IS Right AND Wrong.
(And that goes back in deeper details of Adam eating from the Tree of Good and evil).
Man can Kill a body.
Man cannot kill a soul.
ALL souls belong to God, and the LIFE in the soul belongs to God.
It matters Not if the living soul (a soul with Gods LIFE in it,) is IN or out of the Body it belongs to God.
When the Body is dying; The living soul Departs out of the Body. Gods Life does Not remain in a dead rotting corpse.
IF, the living soul was Saved by God, it returns to God, and waits for Judgement.
If, the living soul was NOT saved by God, it is sent Away from God and waits for Judgement.
The Natural spirit in man...His Natural Truth...
Becomes Changed by God...
Spiritually the Heart (Vessel) becomes circumcised, cut off and the man given a new heart (vessel), and a new Seed, Gods Seed, and that That Seed, IS Christ (the power of God), and Jesus (the Truth of God), an thus the spirit of man, becomes born again, being FED, Gods Truth, (instead of the world's Truth).
The Body is accounted dead, washed, covered with Gods Light, Sanctified, (set apart), Justified, to live in Christ's Glorified body...until that body is Risen in its own glorified body, with its Saved Restored living soul and its own Born Again spirit.
The MIND of the Body is a man's natural form of thinking, guessing, logically formulating ideas and conclusions based on the extent of Knowledge he has or further learns. It's a constant guessing game for an individual to decide between this and that of WHAT to believe is true or not. A man can Know in his Hearts Thoughts something is absolutely wrong, wicked, evil...Yet his Mind can (sort of) convince his heart, he can get away with the evil act, without detrimental consequence.
And the thoughts of the soul, come into play, regarding the Feelings/emotions.
In short; the MIND can devise evil thoughts.
The heart can Know it is Wrong.
And the souls Thoughts are going to React to what the person does...
Sorrow, feel bad, if the mind goes through with the thought and does evil...
Or joy if the mind does not go through with the act of evil.
The Body, soul, spirit of a man, are the WHOLE of a man, all called by the Identity (name, title), of the one man.
It is THOSE THREE things, that God through Christ Jesus, has Offered a Way for those Three things to Become MADE Changed, NOW, before a man's Physical death.
Man was Created in Gods IMAGE.
The IMAGE, is a Form, appearance.
We can See other men's forms, image, but cannot See Gods IMAGE, (face, hands, etc).
Man was "Created" in Gods LIKENESS..."good".
A good Form, A good heart, A good mind, A good spirit...
Right after man was "Created"...good;
That "created" thing God called a man...
Was then "MADE" ALIVE...by being Given:
A soul with Gods LIFE in it.
(Fact here is; God is the Creator AND Maker.
God created the Earth. From the elements of the Earth, (He created a man)...He didn't create more BABY Earth from the Earth) , He
CREATED a man. The man (Form), could do nothing without LIFE, thus God being Life and the Giver and Taker of Life, "MADE" man ALIVE, by giving man a soul with Gods LIFE In the soul.)
First man created...(another study), lost his ability to reproduce something as he Was created good, through disobedience. WHAT Adam reproduced was something IN "his image" and "his likeness"...which God called "not good".
God taught man HOW TO become RESTORED, back To good.
It is man that man needs to first Learn About himself...physically and spiritually, before being concerned about what applies to animals.
Animals are also body's formed out of the Earth. And were given a soul with Gods Breath of Life...
Animals WERE NOT created in Gods IMAGE or LIKENESS.
An animal has a MIND. It thinks, it decides, it chooses to do this or that.
(It was never designed to cognitively think to decide if there IS a God )
An animal was Given a soul, with Gods Breath of Life.
Animals have Emotions, feel scared, feel safe, feel content, feel joy, feel sorrow, same as humans....but have No requirement to: Believe IN God...thus THEY CAN NOT SIN against God.
The LIFE in a soul is Gods LIFE...and all souls belong to God, regardless if the soul is in or out of a Saved man, an unsaved man, or an animal.
All body's out of the Earth, humans and animals (their Blood LIFE) Shall die...
God decides where the living soul goes, to wait Judgement.
God raises the dead bodies, of mankind (reimparts ) the living souls...judges that Body, the soul feels the Emotion of that Judgement; and after judgement...either the Living soul Remains in that body and with God Forever or the LIFE in the soul returns to God...and the body and soul destroyed.
It is Body's of men, that it is taught are raised for "Judgement", not animals.
What God does with DEAD bodies of animals is secondary, for what man needs to know to have his own self restored.
What is revealed is:
Animals are body's out of the Earth.
They Have Gods Breath of Life, a soul.
The feed off the land and other animals.
They have blood.
They die.
They shall be on the restored earth along side of men restored men on a restored earth.
It really does not affect me one iota what you think or learn or believe or know or deny.
I know for myself what I think, Hear, study, learn and how much time I devote to a subject and commune with the Lord to gain His understanding on the subject, to land on a belief.
You want to argue over whether an animal has a soul... is irrelevant to me. You have already revealed your opinion is from your LOGICAL conclusion out of your Mind, and not by Scriptural or Spiritual knowledge or understanding.
There is nothing to argue about. I have a different perspective than you from a different source than you.
Nothing requires you to believe me, neither am I asking you to believe me.
If a soul of an animal is your interest; Hear, learn, study what God has Provided, and ask Him to give you His truth and understanding on the subject.
Glory to God,
Taken