[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.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

All living things have a soul.

Of what purpose is a soul to a lizard if it cannot be saved?

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

Wanton destruction? Do you mean as in killing pigs for bacon and pork chops? Are you a vegetarian? Do you wear leather shoes? Do you use a checkbook and read paperbacks which are produced by cutting down living trees?

All living things have a soul.

Does a tree have a soul? A weed? Compost?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Hi, ftd. And amen.

[annalex]

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

This is another reason, beside the ignorance of the gospel, that mystics like St. Francis drive the Calvinists crazy. They think we have an animal soul, and the animal world around us reminds them of the fallacy of their pathetic theology.