We are not just superior animals. Take a wolf from 3,000 B.C. Move it in a time machine 5,000 years into the future. It still hunts the same. It sleeps the same. It breeds the same. It dresses the same, no wait, it still doesn’t dress for winter, just grows more hair. It lives no differently except that it is easier to hunt confined sheep than running deer.
You cannot say the same for human beings. I will admit that the sinful nature is still there and that people are still self centered but aside from that we have made a lot of progress. Wolves have not developed hospitals or zippers. They have not organized into political parties. Okay, some things are not necessarily progress, but you get the idea.
Why is it that people are the only animals that have “evolved”? Could it be that we are more than animals? Of course when I look at the students I have at school I sometimes wonder.
homo unius libri
"Our image," the Good Book says, though you have to feel bad for the Lord the way we've turned out.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how much of the Imago Dei manages to still shine through the fallen nature.
ReplyDeleteGrace and peace.