[Vision2020] Animal Souls in the Bible

[Andreas Schou]

On 11/17/06, nickgier at adelphia.net <nickgier at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Hail to the Vision!
>
> Thanks to Ralph Nielsen for the Bible lesson.  He is soooo good at it.
>
> As I have argued in my article "Hebrew and Buddhist Selves," the Hebrews had one of the most materialistic view of the soul in the ancient world.
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> The Bible also teaches that animals have souls (Heb.nephesh; Gk. psyche). Ralph is also right: the Hebrew Bible teaches that those souls all go to the same place after death: Sheol, the Hebrew equivalent of Hades.

Nick --

My understanding was that animals have a certain type of spirit (Heb.
ruah; Gk pneuma) but not reason, which they called 'nephesh'. Do you
have a scriptural cite for this?

-- ACS