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Churches are paying closer attention to connection between humans and animals
Chicago Tribune ^ | 06/07/10 | Lisa Black

Posted on 06/07/2010 12:07:51 PM PDT by Borges

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To: RockinRight

You demean animals.


21 posted on 06/07/2010 12:23:38 PM PDT by ZULU
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To: Borges

22 posted on 06/07/2010 12:24:26 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Borges
The Humane Society of the United States has started a faith outreach program that, within the past two years, has distributed 7,500 DVDs at church and college campuses on "Eating Mercifully." The DVD and booklets draw on Scripture to remind Christians of their duty to be good stewards of all God's creatures.

Ping for later

23 posted on 06/07/2010 12:25:28 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (....just doing the job(s) that Catholics refuse to do....)
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To: Borges

They do indeed.

I have four cats, and my son’s cats is living in his room for the past few weeks, which makes five.


24 posted on 06/07/2010 12:25:36 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Borges
Some religious leaders welcome pets to worship services, memorialize them at death and discuss them as spiritual beings without distinction from humanity

Ugh.

25 posted on 06/07/2010 12:27:50 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Borges; All

Thoughts?:

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 (New International Version)

Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breat ; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.


26 posted on 06/07/2010 12:28:34 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Borges

“Dogs have masters, cats have staff.” Sorry—couldn’t resist. BTW, I am staff to two cats. :)


27 posted on 06/07/2010 12:34:14 PM PDT by TrueFact
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

Ecclesiastes is written from the tongue-in-cheek perspective of an atheist to show that if there is no God, then life is empty and without meaning.


28 posted on 06/07/2010 12:37:58 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

Ecclesiastes is full of existentialism. The viewpoint is that of looking at the world WITHOUT the Spirit of God. From that viewpoint, the constant refrain of “everything is meaningless” is correct.


29 posted on 06/07/2010 12:38:20 PM PDT by what's up
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To: LambSlave

Ok. What about this:

The Book of Job: “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.” (Job 12:9-10 KJV)


30 posted on 06/07/2010 12:44:37 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Borges
E. David Cook, Wheaton College
Still, "evangelicals care deeply for the way animals are treated but that doesn't mean we worship animals or put them in front of human beings," Cook said. "If it's a choice between saving Granny and saving my poodle in the fire, Granny wins every time."
Hhhhmmm, how old is granny; how old is the dog? So many questions coming up under Obamacare.
Indeed, if we could always be as supportive of each other as our hounds are to us, earth would be a lot more like heaven --From Tilly to eternity: the death of the family dog.

31 posted on 06/07/2010 12:44:42 PM PDT by mlizzy ("Is there more to the story, daddy?")
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To: Borges

Threads like this always make me hungry...


32 posted on 06/07/2010 12:45:30 PM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: what's up

How do you view this?

“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” (Romans 8:21-22 KJV)


33 posted on 06/07/2010 12:46:36 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

This refers to the “new Heavens and Earth” which will be a reality of the coming world where sin is not a factor.


34 posted on 06/07/2010 12:54:20 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up

Well, heaven just can’t be heaven without my departed felines. It just couldn’t be. I mean, man sinned against God. Animals didn’t. This breaks my heart.


35 posted on 06/07/2010 1:05:06 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
There may be felines there. There were animals in Eden before the Fall. But I doubt there will be any departed ones.

Yeah, man sinned. Animals can't becuase they don't have souls. But men who enter Heaven won't have any sin left because they will have embraced the remedy.

36 posted on 06/07/2010 1:15:20 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Borges

People have had a friend in dogs for an estimated 30,000 years. So maybe we can return the favor.

Many mammals share a gene called FOXP2. But humans have a very unique, mutated form of this gene. It contributes much to our ability to speak in a complex way.

Scientists put this snippet into the embryos of mice, and were quite startled by the result: “chatty” mice. Not only did the mice chatter at each other a lot, but they had a greater vocal range than did normal mice.

It is believed that a smart dog can understand about 300 human words. Imagine if a dog could speak, with context, even a dozen words? Our whole relationship would change.

Imagine our joy when our dog could tell us just a few, critical things. Perhaps just some distinct one-syllable word contractions, but in context.

Just if they could tell us when they were in pain, we could take much suffering out of their lives.

Yet at the same time, their lifespan is short, so we could have the heartbreaking experience of saying goodbye to them, and they to us.


37 posted on 06/07/2010 1:59:03 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Borges
Animals are a great gift. I for one love my pets just like they were my kids.

But animals are not people. While I don't think we should ever be unnecessarily cruel to an animal, I absolutely do not agree with the "vegans" and "save the horned owl, kill a baby" crowd that are trying to infiltrate churches.

38 posted on 06/07/2010 2:05:01 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

Yes, our bodies go to dust, just like the bodies of animals. But also in Ecclesiastes 12:7 "and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."

Only man has a spirit given by God (as witnessed in Genesis where God breathes life into man, but does not do so with other creations).

39 posted on 06/07/2010 2:10:22 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing

Most would say the soul and spirit are different things.

40 posted on 06/07/2010 2:12:16 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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