[QUOTE=geoff]no its not blasphemy. God put a value on men higher thany any other creation apart from the angels. [./quote]

Support that. Show me where you are interpreting that he put a higher value on man.

Quote Originally Posted by geoff
my support that only humans have souls...in Genisis 1:20-25. " Then God said, let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens. so God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. and God saw that it was good. and God blesse them saying, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seasm and let birds multiply on the earth. so the evening and the day were the fifth day. then God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature acording to tis kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind, and it was so. and God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. and God saw that it was good."-----creation of animals

Genisis 2:7 " and the Lord God formed man of dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life: and man became a living being."

no where in the bible does it state that God breathed the breath of life into any other creature. God formed man from the dust, He then breathed our life or our soul into us. He merely spoke the animals into existence and so they were.
So you're 'OPINION" of what is printed there is what you say it is. That's just what you see. But didn't God create man in his own image? So He created the dude differently than He did other creatures. But I don't see anywhere in that passage where it could even be remotely interpreted that animals have no soul.

As with so many other excerpts from the Bible, it's just all based on interpretations and what you WANT to get out of what you read. The ONLY difference between man and animal is the genetic make up. Animals have hearts, lungs and other vital organs that man has. If an animal lives and breathes, I see no valid reason how it can be said it has no soul. You seem to be contradicting yourself without knowing it.


And thanks for the compliment on my car. Later, QD.