We ARE animals but...
From Sensus Plenior
We ARE animals but...
In many ways we share a nature with animals.
1. We were created from the same dirt. [1] [2] And so we have a similar flesh, blood and breath.
2. Adam gave the animals names based on their reputations. [3] The Hebrew word for 'name' is the same for 'reputation'. [4] The behavior he saw in them was used in the law of cleanliness as examples of behaviors observed in men. Dinner Theater in the Dietary Law examines this more closely.
3. Both men and animals have spirit. [5]
4. We have similar instincts to preserve ourselves. We choose what is good and evil by instinct and usurp God's position as the one who defines Good. [6]
BUT...- ↑
▸ ± Ge 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
▸ ± Ge 1:26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. </span>
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- ↑ ▸ ± Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.</span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.</span> </li>
- ↑ shem - name, reputation
- ↑ ▸ ± Ec 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?</span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± Ge 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.</span> </li> </ol>
- ↑ ▸ ± Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.</span> </li>
