[Dr. Eckleburg]

A "creature" is that which God created and animated. All living things posses a "soul" or anima ("that which moves").

Fascinating. This gets stranger and stranger. So a fly has a soul? A gnat has a soul?

I think you demean what a "soul" is and you demean the fact that Christ died to save the souls of God's elect.

Did Christ die to save the soul of a bat? Does Christ's blood cover the roach?

And if good works are necessary to save a soul, how does the centipede perform good works?

Bizarre.

[kosta50]

Fascinating. This gets stranger and stranger. So a fly has a soul? A gnat has a soul?

Yes.

I think you demean what a "soul" is

Why?

and you demean the fact that Christ died to save the souls of God's elect

I do?

Did Christ die to save the soul of a bat? Does Christ's blood cover the roach?

No.

All living things have a soul. The difference is that only we were created in God's image and likeness, as rational and capable of making free and virtuous choices, as opposed to choices by necessity. We are capable of being kind and merciful if we cleave to God. Animals can't. They don't know God. But it is a biblical message that all of Creation became corrupt through our Fall. Through Christ all Creation will be restored, so why not "preach" Gospels to the animals by practicing it?

By wanton destruction of everything God gave us, we demean God's Creation on a daily basis.