[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Animals have no soul. It has also been my understanding that when a sacrafice of an animal was to be made, such as a lamb, it was taken into the house with to live with the family so that it would stay unblemsished. These lambs were some months old before they were sacraficed. Now can you imagine having this cute perfect little lamb living in your house for so many months (I can't remember exactly how many, but it wouldn't take many) and it becoming more like a pet. Just imagine if you had children also. I'm sure they got very attached, so when it came time to sacrafice it, it would cause a lot of heart ache. And it was sacraficed becasue of sins committed by people. That is a true sacrafice. also think of the monetary value of having to slaughter an animal. It didn't stop people from sinning, but it probably brought on some true sorrow for sin, which is what God wants us to feel.

Remember also animal sacrafice did not take away sin they just covered it for a year. But God said that Jesus's sacrafice takes it away as if it never happens, and he will remember it no more. This is God's plan. Who are we to question it, and say we have a better way:)

Becky

[malakhi]

And it was sacraficed becasue of sins committed by people. That is a true sacrafice. also think of the monetary value of having to slaughter an animal.

Becky, can it be that we actually agree on something? ;o)

Remember also animal sacrafice did not take away sin they just covered it for a year.

Of course, it couldn't last long. The sacrifice atoned for the sin. God forgave the sin. The one clear mention of sin being covered is Psalm 32:1, and it says this after saying that the sin was forgiven. The concept that sin was only "covered", not cleansed away, is a Calvinist notion. It would have been foreign to the ancient Israelites.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Animals have no soul.

Pssst....Proud2Be is a vegetarian...

[The_Reader_David]

Why do you assert that animals have no soul? It is beyond doubt that they lack the deiform soul which human beings have, but what is the principal of their animation if not a soul?

[apologist]

Animals have no soul.

Offbeat question - how do we know for sure?