Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5030. The human soul is spoken of everywhere and defined almost nowhere. We say a singer has soul, that a ship sank with all souls aboard, that someone sold his soul for success. Behind the loose talk sits one of the deepest questions a person can ask: is there something to me beyond my…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5019. Whether animals have souls sounds like a child’s question, usually asked through tears over a dead pet, but it opens onto real theology, and the Bible’s answer is more interesting than most people expect. The surprise is in the Hebrew of Genesis itself: the phrase usually translated living creature, applied to animals, is…