Did Neanderthal have a soul?

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Anonymous wrote:Neither Moses nor any person who has never heard of Christ or his teachings are in Hell.

Where are they? Certainly not in heaven -- that's for saved Christians only -- according to saved Christians.

Wrong. Are you Catholic or not Christian? The obligation to enter the kingdom of heaven through Christ doesn't apply if you have no possibility of knowing of Christ, as least as most current American Christians believe it.

So if one Christian proselytizer comes to your door and you turn him away, you're hell-bound, but if no one ever tells you about Christ, you will end up living with him forever.

Such simplistic thinking. I guess its better than no thinking at all. Or is it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:12:45, Christians don't believe that everyone who died before Christ was born has no chance at salvation. In death you have a chance to embrace God even if you didn't in life. Not all Christians think you have to accept Christ before death.

Hebrews 9:27: "It is appointed unto man once to die, then the judgment."

No, you do not have a chance to accept Christ after you die.

You can't disprove a claim about what many Christians believe with a quote from the Bible. Come on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone has a soul- human, neanderthal, animal, insect.

I agree that either everyone has it -- or, alternatively, no one has it. Yet some religion traditions, like Christianity, believe only humans do. How do they square that?

No, that's not true. Lots of Christians believe that animals have souls -- see CS Lewis as just one example. The Blessing of the Animals has long been a tradition in Christian churches. It's true that some Christian denominations don't believe this, but you certainly can't say that all Christian traditions believe animals have no souls.

According to Christian teachings, only people who have accepted Christ as their savior can go to heaven, so that rules out not only Neanderthals, but all humans who were born before the time of Christ and people born since who have have not accepted him as their savior.

Yes

Those born before Christ had pre-existing conditions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am Catholic and I believe animals have souls. No doubt about it.

But you didn't learn that in catechism -- you probably just made it yourself because you like the idea. That's not the way Catholicism works

right

For example, Catholicism preaches that pedophiles should be shuffled from parish to parish lest they be caught.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12:45, Christians don't believe that everyone who died before Christ was born has no chance at salvation. In death you have a chance to embrace God even if you didn't in life. Not all Christians think you have to accept Christ before death.

Hebrews 9:27: "It is appointed unto man once to die, then the judgment."

No, you do not have a chance to accept Christ after you die.

You can't disprove a claim about what many Christians believe with a quote from the Bible. Come on.

Of course you can. The Bible is the sole source for Christian doctrine. Come on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12:45, Christians don't believe that everyone who died before Christ was born has no chance at salvation. In death you have a chance to embrace God even if you didn't in life. Not all Christians think you have to accept Christ before death.

Hebrews 9:27: "It is appointed unto man once to die, then the judgment."

No, you do not have a chance to accept Christ after you die.

You can't disprove a claim about what many Christians believe with a quote from the Bible. Come on.

Of course you can. The Bible is the sole source for Christian doctrine. Come on.

That's funny. Or are you not joking?

I'm describing what many Christians believe, not what the Bible *might* dictate. All Christians take the Bible as the word of God yet the denominations have differing views. And, as with all religious texts, large portions are rejected.

[Anonymous]

Which bible is the source of all Christian doctrine?


The Vulgate/king James versions?
The vulgar translations from Latin?
A Latin version, and if so, which?
One of the Greek language compilations?
Pre or post council of Nicosea?
Pre or post the reforms of Justinian?
Pre or post the 11th century western catholic decision establishing the unmarried clergy to prevent dilution of church property by inheritance?

<sigh>

[Anonymous]

Yes, of course they did. There's plenty of anthropological evidence of this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Catholic and I believe animals have souls. No doubt about it.

But you didn't learn that in catechism -- you probably just made it yourself because you like the idea. That's not the way Catholicism works

right

For example, Catholicism preaches that pedophiles should be shuffled from parish to parish lest they be caught.

Nothing in catechism or the bible about that; it's just a very expeditious practice