Can Animals be Guilty of Sin?

[tweedlealice]

Blessings
In a society, there will be the normal, about 60%. There will 20% to the extremes in both ends. Imperfect as we are, we’ll pull to what loves them and comforts them. Was Mom a little rough. Still HUMAN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANIMAL.
Like the Charismatic Movement is real but some ppl fell down in hysterical reactions. Many really felt the embrace of the Holy Spirit. (BEING SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT). There is real and fantasy.
Heck, good old Santa Claus and tooth fairies, etc
Realists would argue truth. Romantics like the magic of childhood. The kids have so much fun…Some are not happy when told the truth. Most accept it. “Your old enough to say, what your friends have been saying is true. Now, you can help keep the magic alive for your younger siblings.” I taught about St. Nicolas’s real story and embellished it after his death, his love for Jesus burst out and the magical SC as born.
Anyway, idolatry? I guess some. Caesar Miln would be upset w all of us for not being a leader of the pack… He is gifted.
In Christ’s Love
Tweedlealice

 

[jcrichton]

Was Mom a little rough

More like a Saint of Saints.

Here’s a quick window: one day there was a guy in my house; he was brought over by a mutual acquaintance; Mom showed up (from Church on the way to Church) in her Third Order Franciscan habit–when Mom left the guy asks me, “How can she be your Mom, isn’t she a Nun?”

Every where he went there was Mom in a prayer circle or serving at the altar… people actually thought she was a Nun.

…as for the leaving the Church, I have heard so many lame reasons… that I thought it possible (the fib about pets going to Heaven) that that could be used as an excuse… ‘what, if my baby can’t go to Heaven then I don’t want to be there!’–but that could be the glass haft empty thing… so never mind my rant.

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[BoyGenius]

I was under the impression animals were amoral, but I wonder what this means,

"Then he poured the chrism on Aaron’s head, consecrating him by unction.

Then Moses made Aaron’s sons come forward; he put the tunics on them, passed the girdles round their waists and put on their head-dress, as the Lord had ordered Moses.

Then he had the bull for the sacrifice for sin brought forward. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the victim’s head and Moses immolated it. Then he took the blood and with his finger put some of it on the horns round the altar, to take away its sin. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar, which he consecrated by performing the rite of atonement over it. Then he took all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty mass which is over the liver, the two kidneys and their fat; and he burnt them all on the altar. The bull’s skin, its flesh and its dung he burnt outside the camp, as the Lord had ordered Moses."

I’m assuming I am misunderstanding something with the text

Animals are innocent. Jesus was the Lamb (i…e Innocent) who was slain. Who became the Sacrifice once and for all. There is also another point, many of those animals were worshipped. There is an act of Holy Penance by their offering as well.

Don’t forget, the fall. Man introduces sin into the world. All of God’s creation are affected. While man is born into sin (i.e. through the fall), the animals were not. So God takes them, and uses them for sacrifices in His Covenant. But this all falls as precursors to Jesus being the Lamb. The final offering and Sacrifice, but fulfillment. In perfection. God does this to prove His love for us, and our Salvation.

Animals are temporary sacrifices and offerings until Jesus paid the final price/sacrifice.

But also remember, God said in creation to Adam: Subdue all the earth. So God already had in mind what the animals were created for, And their purpose.