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  2. Moral status of animals in the ancient world - Wikipedia

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    He urged respect for animals, because he believed that humans and non-humans had the same kind of soul, one spirit that pervades the universe and makes us one with animals. [4] The souls were indestructible, made of fire and air, and were reincarnated from human to animal, or vice versa, the so-called transmigration of the soul. He was a ...

  3. Peter's vision of a sheet with animals - Wikipedia

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    Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...

  4. Christianity and animal rights - Wikipedia

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    The Bible presents several views on the ethical relationship between humans and animals, which have been interpreted in various ways. This is seen in the creation narrative in the Book of Genesis. [11] On the one hand, Genesis 1:26–30 says that humans, having been made in the image of God, are to have dominion over the non-human animals. [11]

  5. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    Animals have senses, are able to move, and have physical appetites. The apex predator like the lion, could move vigorously, and has powerful senses like keen eyesight and the ability to smell their prey from a distance, while a lower order of animals might wiggle or crawl, or like oysters were sessile, attached to the sea-bed. All, however ...

  6. The Case of the Animals versus Man - Wikipedia

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    The bee claims that according to Quran 16: 68, bees have a skillset superior to that of humans. [16] The animals insinuate that mankind is confused, given the existence of multiple world religions, to which the Persian in attendance invokes Quran 2: 115: "Whichever path we take, there is the face of God." [17]

  7. Flourishing - Wikipedia

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    A parallel act occurs with respect to animals, which are called to bear forth life “according to their kind.” [24] Finally, God creates the human being, and gives them the command: “Be fruitful and multiply,” with a greater specification: “fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of ...

  8. Man and the Natural World - Wikipedia

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    Wild animals, birds and fish are God's gift to all men. Plants were created by God for the sake of animals and animals for the sake of men and thus humans may lawfully kill animals. Cattle and sheep had only been given life in the first place to keep their meat fresh "till we shall have need to eat them" [citation needed]. Furthermore, they ...

  9. Animism - Wikipedia

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    Primitive people believed, he argued, that they were descended from the same species as their totemic animal. [23] Subsequent debate by the "armchair anthropologists" (including J. J. Bachofen , Émile Durkheim , and Sigmund Freud ) remained focused on totemism rather than animism, with few directly challenging Tylor's definition.