According to the Bible, animals have souls. Texts such as Genesis 1:21,24 are often mistranslated to read living creatures. The exact Hebrew used in reference to animals throughout the Bible is nephesh chayah, or living soul. This is how the phrase has been translated in Genesis 2:7 and in four hundred other places in the Old Testament. Thus, Genesis 1:30 should more accurately read: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, I have given every green herb for meat. God breathed the breath of life into man, and caused him to become a living soul. (Genesis 2:7) Animals have the same breath of life as do humans. (Genesis 7:15, 22) Numbers 16:22 refers to the Lord as the God of spirits of all flesh. In Numbers 31:28, God commands Moses to divide up among the people the cattle, sheep, asses and human prisoners captured in battle and to give to the Lord one soul of five hundred of both humans and animals alike. Psalm 104 says God provides for animals and their ensoulment.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:04:03 +0000
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