No the animals have instinct not a living soul.
Scripture says otherwise:
Both man and animals have a living soul and the breath of life and a spirit.
Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every
living creature [soul] that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
living= 02416 chay
creature = 05315 nephesh
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the
living creature [soul] after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
living= 02416 chay
creature = 05315 nephesh
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
living= 02416 chay
soul= 05315 nephesh
Both man and animals are a "living soul" according to God.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Man has the "breath of life".
Genesis 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life.
Animals also have the breath of life.
1 Corinthians 15:39
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Man and animals have different flesh, but both are a living soul and have the breath of life.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other;
yea, they have all one breath [ru^ach]; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
What befalls the flesh of animals will also befall the flesh of man. Animals and man have the same breath! Breath here is
ru^ach meaning spirit!
(YLT) For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and
one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.
Animals and man have one spirit (one spirit to all) meaning the same spirit!
07307 ruwach {roo'-akh}
from 07306; TWOT - 2131a; n f
AV - Spirit or spirit 232, wind 92, breath 27, side 6, mind 5, blast 4,
vain 2, air 1, anger 1, cool 1, courage 1, misc 6; 378
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
The flesh of animals and man both go to the same place!
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and
the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
The only difference is the spirit of man will go up to God while the spirit of an animal will go down. No resurrection for animals, no afterlife.
So, according to God both man and animals are
a living soul and have the
the breath of life and have
a spirit.
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