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Presumably animals don't have souls, maybe in some wordy sense they do, but functionally they don't so we can eat them or step on them. If bacteria has a soul w

Presumably animals don't have souls, maybe in some wordy sense they do, but functionally they don't so we can eat them or step on them. If bacteria has a soul we are in trouble. As for the comprehensiveness of the Bible yeah what your saying is logically correct, but seems a bit disingenuous. Why not include the Quran and Book of Mormon in the holy scriptures as well if the Bible isn't the "end-all"? For God to only be concerned with terrestrial matters in the Bible is very strange if ET Intelligent life exists. Any religion that acknowledges ET life prior to their discovery would seem to be more plausible... though obviously that seems kind of ridiculous in practice.

coldtea 6y ago
>As for the comprehensiveness of the Bible yeah what your saying is logically correct, but seems a bit disingenuous. Why not include the Quran and Book of Mormon in the holy scriptures as well if the Bible isn't the "end-all"? Because, as I said, in traditional Christianity, while the Bible is not the be-all-end-all, it's not supplemented by anything-and-everything. Rather, the other important elements are the oral tradition of christians, lived experience of the church community, the so-called prominent figures ("fathers of the church"), etc. So the Bible is not everything, but there's no room for the and Quran and Book of Mormon in there still -- there are other things that are accepted by (non protestant) Christianity that supplement the Bible -- not just anything.