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Where does that leave our choices? Are they actually free? Do we have free will that is actually consequential?
Is it true that humans “have souls” and animals do not? I do not know of anything in the Bible that substantiates this claim.
While the New Testament is most explicit on the subject of a future bodily resurrection (e.g. 1 Corinthians 15), the Old Testament really lays the groundwork for the New Testament’s teaching.
“All humans are made in the image of God.” We hear this phrase all the time, usually indicating that human life is valuable. But what does the phrase “image of God” actually mean?
Dominion over creation is man’s original task set out in Genesis 1, and reigning with Christ is his ultimate end, envisioned in Revelation 22. It is my contention therefore that Christian sanctification and discipleship is fundamentally a matter of training to rule.
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As it is clear from Scripture that human beings are endowed with a soul at the moment of conception, the question to which we now return is that of what happens when pre-born babies and infants die.