We ARE animals but...
In many ways we share a nature with animals.
1. We were created from the same dirt. [1] [2]
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 by men. Yuo may examine this more in Dinner Theater in the Dietary Law.- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ shem - name, reputation