[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Do you seek something upon which to focus your faith, or do you seek some proof to be gleaned from the scriptures?

As you know, my Faith is already Focused... (grin -- see #36).

My interest is whether or not there is any Biblical evidence for an "animal-soul" which Transcends the electro-chemical.

• If there is, it could arguably serve as support for the Tripartite view of Man's Personhood.
• If there's not, that tends to argue for the Bipartite view of Man's Personhood (which already seems, IMO, to enjoy more Biblical support.

Since the Bible is my Sola Fide Regula, I have to inquire therein as to whether or not there is any Biblical evidence for an "animal-soul" which Transcends the electro-chemical. I thought about the possibility of Balaam's donkey, for example; but then when I cross-referenced that example against the fact that God said He could cause even the rocks to offer up Praise, it seems to argue against the idea of any native Transcendence on the part of Animals... in both cases, what we see in a Divine introduction into the Object, of a Transcendent quality which is not naturally there.

Ergo, is any Biblical evidence for an "animal-soul" which Transcends the electro-chemical?

As it stands, I don't see any.

best, OP

[txhurl]

Ergo, is any Biblical evidence for an "animal-soul" which Transcends the electro-chemical?

Well, the Biblical animal references are constrained to a region which had no familiarity with the higher primates, namely African, nor with sea mammals such as whales, dolphins, etc.

Then again, Egypt had done much soul/spirit investigation and none of that is mentioned, either.

Are you trying to pinpoint where earth animals (including us) seemed to take on a hyper-electro-chemical soul?