Allen Roy wrote:
It is life that was
put
into the body, not a soul into a body.
I say (thinking hard):
This is crucial, and I think Allen is right. If we
take a non-dualistic view of personhood (which is,
again, debatable), and if we hold evolution to be near
to true (which is not very debatable), then every
animal, every corporate being, must have a soul
(life). That has to include dogs, caterpillars,
spiders, amoebes, or at least all animals in the
evolutionary line of descent to human beings. We are
holding for true that God did not on any occasion in
the history of life put or breathe a soul into man,
but merely that life itself (that somehow is from
God), inherent in all animals including man, is what
make out for what we today name 'soul.'
But this does not at all solve my problem. Still we
have to ask; what makes man unique (compared to all
other animals from which he has descended, and from
which he has life/soul)? Even worse to explain; what
makes it possible for man to communicate with God?
It seems to me that Allen's view (or the view he
presents) does not answer my question, rather it makes
it even more hard to answer.
Bjorn Moller.
e-mail: dj_mic20@yahoo.com
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