>But it may well be that wihout the special act of God described as
>breathing the breath (Hebrew ruah = "spirit, breath") of life, and
>thereby creating the creatures in God's image (whateer else that might
>mean), the creatures were not subject to redemption, and "wiping them
>out" would have no more significance than other extinctions.
A more sobering thought: suppose they were _not_ wiped out. The
implication would be that there were then, and perhaps are now, creatures
walking around that are indistinguishable (to our senses) from human
beings, but have no spiritual dimension. Implications like that can be
(and perhaps have been) used to justify genocide, and that scares the
daylights out of me.
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