A
depiction of Abraham like Adam receiving a ram from GOD to be offered
in sacrifice for sin in place of his heir.
Today,
reply is on the need among animals to read the Bible, and to receive
prophecy, revelation, and sacred
knowledge. Animals have an
innate consciousness of GOD as part of their makeup and substance.
Human beings have no reason to doubt that animals also can apprehend
and respond to the operations of divine fullness (we say, divinity;
the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit). Animals are an
appearance and manifestation of the sovereign will of GOD as Creator.
Mankind was fashioned and formed by the divine hand, and completed
using life essence
from the Creator (we say, breath, spirit, word). The beasts and
living creatures appeared as acts of GOD when spoken and uttered into
existence. While animals continue in covenant relationship with
divinity from the times following their deliverance on the ark of
Noah, their survival does not depend on their finite intellectual
skills and traits. Mature Christians readily accept that the animals
gathered to the ark did so in response to promptings by the Holy
Spirit, not the preaching of Noah; the ravens who fed the prophet
Elijah at the brook-side, were commanded and guided by GOD; and the
lions who demonstrated divine restraint while the prophet Daniel was
present within their lair acknowledged the divine Creator and Maker.
Our pets (and we ourselves) operate as having animal intelligence
that includes consciousness, emotions, empathy, instinct, and
intuition; and many display an ability to communicate among
themselves. Even so,
languages and literacy as seen among mankind has not been observed
and reported among the many beasts living on the earth. It is
written: Romans 8: 22-23, King James Version (KJV): 22 For we know
that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now. 23 And not only they,
but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to
wit, the redemption of our
body. The fighter in the “Yahoo! Answer” public forum on
Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “Night city light”
(Level 2 with 253 points, a member since August 20, 2019) posted the
following:
Why
is Bible only for humans, why can't animals read Bible, does that
mean other beings are less important in God eyes?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For it pleased the Father that in him should
all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say,
whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And
you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by
wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable
in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and
be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have
heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under
heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; (Colossians 1: 19-23,
King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Was Creation A Failure? (05/13/2019); How Did Noah
Know? (10/14/2018); Multiply, Replenish and Rule (08/27/2017); A
Species of Animal? (01/31/2017); The Covenant of Noah? (12/16/2014);
Atone, Judge and Replenish (12/17/2014); Animals Do Not Sin?
(09/29/2013); GOD is Acknowledging (09/30/2013); Money-changers in
The Temple? (06/23/2013); Believers and the Cross (06/24/2013)
“Night
city light”, angels and animals are not “living souls” within
the Creation, and their needs for divine process and sacred
knowledge are not the same as that among humankind. Only mankind
is challenged to communicate, exchange, and interact with divinity by
having the same awareness and sacred knowledge granted
to Adam, and given to them in the form of life essence
(breath; spirit; word) from the makeup of GOD. Because animals were
put forth having aspects of the same inseparable spirit content, they
also respond to the Maker as authority, power, active
presence, and sovereign will, however, they do not relate as
offspring, or sons and daughters of GOD. The primary focus of divine
judgment is the presence and expression of spirit content from GOD.
Human consciousness and self-will (willpower) are to display spirit
content and influence that go beyond emotion and feelings. The
endowment of sacred spirit imparted to the living includes faith,
holiness, longsuffering, lovinkindness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath
against sin.
While
some people will show favor and disfavor to others because they are
able to read and recite the things that are written in the Bible, our
Father in heaven does not demand that all created beings and living
creatures be able to quote from the divine law, memorize the advice
and counsels recorded as Scripture, or read and write the full
collection of documents, epistles, messages, and prophecies preserved
as the Bible. Whether a person will be accepted by divinity,
accounted worthy to be granted eternal life, and whether they will be
approved as having meaning, quality and value as life companions to
GOD depends on things that describe divinity more than on things that
describe mankind.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, divine judgment and salvation go forward
on the basis of the forgiveness, grace, impartiality, eternal
purpose, and righteousness of GOD, rather than the flaws,
infirmities, and sins of the living. The character, possibilities
and potential of men and angels continue to be shown through behavior
that is animal, human, or divine; and is often put forth as a mixture
of the three. Finite human awareness and self-will can be determined
by operations of sin—even though
divinity has never created or put forth sin.) Even so, I trust this
fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
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