Do little people go to heaven?: If the 3' tall hominids were rational, did they have immortal souls?

spectator.co.uk ^ | 6 November 2004 | Christopher Howse

[fishtank]

"Do we not "evolve" in the womb?"

Only answer to your many points. The DNA is a fertilized egg is a new creation, and the development of the new human follows the instructions laid out in the programmed language of the genes. I see design, not chance. I see a Creator, not a Force.

[Destro]

I also see monkey tail on the embryo.

[fishtank]

That is another myth myth-proved.

[Destro]

People are born with tails all the time - Rush Limbaugh was born with a tail - got him out of the draft. Saying "The Creator did it" is fine but unthinking and simplistic. But you can't answer how he did it. You should read Origen.

[stuartcr]

You'll have to wait until you die, to find out for sure. Does it really matter?

[onedoug]

God will do as God does.

[gcruse]

The Aztecs actually thought what they were doing was linked to good crop weather.

There was a thread about FReepers who thought their prayers had been instrumental in reelecting the President.

The difference.... escapes me.

[Destro]

LOL

[onedoug]

If they're of genus Homo, ('ehem!), I'd say yes, God considers them seperately.

[Cvengr]

"Far more interesting this week, in an irresponsibly speculative way, is what we should make of these Floresians’ spiritual life, if they existed."

I was beginning to wonder if the author had mistyped Floridians for 'Floresians' at this point in the read....

[Cvengr]

"The soul is, in scholastic terms, derived from Aristotle, the form of the body, making it, with its constituent matter, a unified substance."

The soul was considered for two thousand years prior to Aristotle in the Hebrew Scriptures referencing 'nephesh'.

If one limits their study to post Aristotlean writings, then no study of the soul is complete without also studying the meaning of spirit or 'pneuma' in Scripture. In Scripture, though, the soul and spirit are considered more aart of the immaterial part of man, than the material part, which is referenced as body or flesh (soma and sarx).

[Destro]

Many cultures have a "spirit" ideas older than the Hebrews (like the Egyptians) but Aristotle tried to make it scientific - explain and classify it - that is why he is unique - even if he was wrong about many of his observed conclusions (but so was Sigmund Freud).

[D Edmund Joaquin]

The answer probably rests in Genesis with the cattle and grasses.

[Cvengr]

Since there are deceiving spirits and man is born dead in the spirit, it is fair more reliable to discern the nature of spiritual things from Scripture and God through faith in His Son, than any other source. Besides, He's afforded us membership in His royal family when we place faith in Him through Christ and are regenerated with our own living spirit at that point.