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Originally Posted by Calvert Hall '62
How do Christian doctrines address homo sapiens precursors like homo neanderthalensis, homo erectus, homo habilis, et al.?
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I could make a seriously good debate how cattle go to heaven, but then when I see cattle, oxen and rams, I see it speaking about humans, not cattle.
1 Cor.
…Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? 9
For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned? 10Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.…
Hosea 2
18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and
with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
The Priests' Portion
…16"As to their redemption price, from a month old you shall redeem them, by your valuation, five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17
"But the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to the LORD. 18"Their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.…
All the beast in the bible are really not speaking of beasts, it is not of oxen or of rams or sheep in it's meaning and neither were the animals that were loaded on the ark, they were not animals, they were people.
2 by 2
2 by 2
Everyone who comes onto the ark will come two by two and nobody shall stand alone or they will not enter into the ark.
Male and female they shall come, Jew and Gentile.
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