and you just made my point!!!!!
the non-human animals are far superior to people as they do not transgress God’s Law and they do not require any help getting into Heaven (they go direct, don’t need any tickets punched)
your pets will be with you in the next life....
Isaiah 65 (and Revelation 19) both envison non-human animals in the world to come
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If they were far superior to people, they would not have been sacrificed to God (at his command, as a foreshadowing of the Messiah’s death)) while people who killed people were under the death sentence. Man was made in God’s image, animals were not. To say that animals are innocent, I wholeheartedly agree with. To say they are superior I cannot agree with.
Rocks don’t break God’s law.
Not breaking God’s law is certainly a good thing. Not being able to break God’s law is not clearly a good thing.
Anyway, even if pets are superior to humans in some or in every respect, they’re not humans. We’re stuck with being human. And we won’t get better by imitating cats or dogs or gerbils.
“the non-human animals are far superior to people as they do not transgress God’s Law and they do not require any help getting into Heaven (they go direct, don’t need any tickets punched) [...]”
They also do have have free will. A very important distinction.
(P.S. - I have been around animals all my adult life, am a long time trainer and breeder of German Shepherd Dogs, have horses, chickens, fish, birds, etc. Animals are not “superior” to people: they are not people at all and cannot be compared to people; therefore they cannot be superior, nor can the be inferior. They are not the same as us. Just as we are not the same as them. Any such comparison is invalid on face value)