If we are animals then you should have no problem with us being animalistic.
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And they shouldn’t be worried about Corona either. Because remember,its survival of the fittest.This is nature and evolution at work.
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My vote for the silliest comment on the page this week! 🙂
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Wasn’t Adam given dominion over the animals? I think that sets man apart from other animals.
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Atheism has no basis for morality. Anything goes, as long as you don’t get caught
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Hmmm…not sure if this is in jest.
Well, assuming this is a legitimate statement, I will comment further.
Jesus is both fully human and fully divine:
“For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,” Colossians 2:9 (ESV)
“Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” Philippians 2:6-8 (ESV)
And, in a similar way, we may be created as the animals were created, but that does not mean we are merely animals:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
As God’s image bearers, we were created to reflect God’s nature, not to be like mere creatures.
On a side note, I think it’s funny that people say, “he’s a real animal” as if that was an insult! Animals don’t sin, they just act according to their natures. It is we who know what is right in our hearts, but choose to act otherwise:
“For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus” Romans 2:12-16 (ESV)
It’s a constant battle to not be merely a creature, but the fact we are aware of that battle shows how different we are from mere animals who are unaware of being other than what they are naturally.
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A classification that describes our biological reproductive and physical characterists does not mean we are mindless like the rest of the animal kingdom. And YOU would not want all of humanity to degenerate into mere animals.
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We are.
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Quote and quote: Made in the image of God. I’ll leave you to think of the rest. ?
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Can you help me understand what you mean by “animalistic?”
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Production of collagen. That’s what makes something an an animal. If it produces collagen, it’s an animal. If humans don’t produce collagen, we die. Therefore humans are animals. Set apart? Yes. Above, even. But still animals.
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I just want to bite you now!? lol
By some of the agreeing comments, you could be serious though. -
An animal is any creature which is a member of the Animalia kingdom. For most modern biologists, this includes human beings, although there are several qualitative differences which are of primary importance (see anthropology, psychology, and so on).
Animals must eat plants or other organisms to survive. The plants are called “producers” and the animals are “consumers”. Animals have complex eukaryotic cells, unlike bacteria which have much simpler prokaryotic cells. Animal cells do not have cell walls, only structural proteins in the cell membrane; this allows the animal cell a degree of flexibility.
The simplest of all animals are sponges, which do not move. Sponges have different cells for different tasks, but these cells are not organized further into tissues or organs. Sponges also do not exhibit symmetry, unlike all other animals.
The next simplest animals comprise a single species, which fall somewhere between sponges and all other animals. This species, Trichoplax adhaerans, is very small, yet has cells organized into different tissues, though it does not have organs.
True Animals are grouped into a sub-kingdom called Eumetazoa. All True Animals have tissues and organs, except for one type called Myxozoa. These have regressed to a single-celled form.
The simplest eumetazons are the Radiata, a loose group that includes jellyfish, corals, and comb jellies. Most of them belong in the phylum Cnidaria, except for the comb jellies, which comprise the phylum Ctenophora. Radiatans have what is called radial symmetry, where they can be divided into two even halves in many planes, like a wheel or a circle. All cnidarians have special cells called cnidocytes, which produce the sting. Comb jellies have no such cells and are harmless to humans.
As God created man in His image, it is of primary importance to distinguish the characteristics of people from animals, such as the eternal spirit, the right to “take dominion” over the natural world of animals and plants, and the prospect of enjoying eternal life. Liberals say that these things are of secondary importance and insist that humans are merely apes.
For biologists who regard their field of study as belonging to physical science, issues of psychology and spirituality take a back seat. They emphasize the physical similarities between the human body and the bodies of other creatures, classifying humans as mammals, specifically, primates.
Perhaps it is their methodological naturalism that leads them to ignore major qualitative differences and to speculate that humans are merely animals with somewhat greater intellectual ability. This vision may be more a predisposition than a scientific conclusion.
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Yep.. we always have to do that daily work.. reaching for the higher values Jesus gave us otherwise we do scramble about like animals instinctually seeking self-preservation and self-gratification ?
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