Kirk Cameron and annihilationism

[praise_yeshua]

What? You think my dog has a spirit? You think he is a spiritual being?

He/she has a spirit that is common to dogs. He doesn't have one like your spirit.

You should learn the Greek OT. That verse in the Greek OT presents a question. It an appeal with the vanity of our human existence.

That dog you think has no value was subjected to man's vanity. Unwilling subjected "TOGETHER" in hope.

When you see the suffering of an animal, do you even care? I can tell you. Adam cared.

 

[Jim]

He/she has a spirit that is common to dogs. He doesn't have one like your spirit.

I don't think so.

 

[FreeInChrist]

A spirit is the defining difference between the human and all the rest of the animal kingdom.

Not exactly ... at least not biblically or biologically.

Let's look into this, Biblically​

Scripture does not teach that only humans have a “spirit.”

In fact:

Ecclesiastes 3:19–21

“Man has no advantage over the animals… they all have the same breath (ruach)… Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?”


FACT:
The Hebrew word ruach (spirit/breath/life-force) is used for both humans and animals.

So we have...

Animals = life spirit/breath from God while

Humans = life spirit plus something more

What actually makes humans different biblically?​

The Bible points to the image of God, not merely “spirit.”

Genesis 1:26–27

26. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27.God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.


What that includes is,

moral awareness
rational thought
self-reflection
capacity for worship
covenant relationship with God
eternal accountability

Animals are alive by God’s breath, but they are not image-bearers.

Think of it this way....


“What uniquely distinguishes humans is not merely having a spirit, but being created in the image of God with moral, rational, and spiritual capacity to know and relate to Him.”

“Animals have life-breath, but humans uniquely bear God’s image.”

​

So the next time you hear or read someone questioning ....Do animals have spirit/breath?
You can definitively answer Yes... Eccl 3:19-21

Eccl 3:19 For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

3:20 All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

3:21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

 

[Jim]

Not exactly ... at least not biblically or biologically.

Let's look into this, Biblically​

Scripture does not teach that only humans have a “spirit.”

In fact:

Ecclesiastes 3:19–21

“Man has no advantage over the animals… they all have the same breath (ruach)… Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?”


FACT:
The Hebrew word ruach (spirit/breath/life-force) is used for both humans and animals.

So we have...

Animals = life spirit/breath from God while

Humans = life spirit plus something more

What actually makes humans different biblically?​

The Bible points to the image of God, not merely “spirit.”

Genesis 1:26–27

26. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27.God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.


What that includes is,

moral awareness
rational thought
self-reflection
capacity for worship
covenant relationship with God
eternal accountability

Animals are alive by God’s breath, but they are not image-bearers.

Think of it this way....


“What uniquely distinguishes humans is not merely having a spirit, but being created in the image of God with moral, rational, and spiritual capacity to know and relate to Him.”

“Animals have life-breath, but humans uniquely bear God’s image.”

​

So the next time you hear or read someone questioning ....Do animals have spirit/breath?
You can definitively answer Yes... Eccl 3:19-21

Eccl 3:19 For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

3:20 All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

3:21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Whatever Solomon intended with his mention of "spirit of the beast", it would seem not be anything similar to the spirit of man, given that it is in the spirit of man that man is in the image of God. I will hold to my view of the spirit of man being the distinguishing feature between man and animals.

 

[civic]

I have never said otherwise.

Sure you have since you deny the clear teaching from the oldest writing in the bible which affirms we will see God after we die physically in a physical body of flesh.

Job 19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

 

[civic]

Even Isaiah affirms a physical, bodily, flesh resurrection


Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

AMEN !!!

The bible is consistent from cover to cover on the bodily resurrection of the saints. From the oldest writings of Jod to the newest writings of John the Apostle.

hope this helps !!!