Do plants, fungi, or bacteria have souls?

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if every living thing has a soul, does this include non-animal organisms like plants, fungi, protists, or bacteria? or is the soul limited to animals? if it is ust animals, then what qualifies as an animal? i know that our own classification system is always changing and things that werent animals before are now considered animals, and things that were animals before are now considered something else.

just curious… heh heh
 
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m3554g3fr0mGod:
if every living thing has a soul, does this include non-animal organisms like plants, fungi, protists, or bacteria? or is the soul limited to animals? if it is ust animals, then what qualifies as an animal? i know that our own classification system is always changing and things that werent animals before are now considered animals, and things that were animals before are now considered something else.

just curious… heh heh
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Only humans have spiritual and immortal souls. All other living things have mortal souls which die when they die.
 
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m3554g3fr0mGod:
if every living thing has a soul, does this include non-animal organisms like plants, fungi, protists, or bacteria? or is the soul limited to animals? if it is ust animals, then what qualifies as an animal? i know that our own classification system is always changing and things that werent animals before are now considered animals, and things that were animals before are now considered something else.

just curious… heh heh
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To the best of my knowledge the only thing taught to have a soul are human beings. Not animals or any other living creature.
 
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To the best of my knowledge the only thing taught to have a soul are human beings. Not animals or any other living creature.
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That is not correct. If you get the chance to read Theology for Beginners by F.J. Sheed it has a good section on souls.
I’ll extract just a few bits:

“Every living body - plant, animal, man has a principle of life, that is, it has a constituent which accounts for it being alive. This is its soul.”

“The souls, the life-principles, of plants and animals produce no vital activities which rise above matter. They are marvellous enough, they animate the body; in plants they make possible movement and growth and reproduction, in animals some faint likeness of knowledge, some faint beginning of social life, as well.
But the soul of man not only animates the body, it has powers of its own, powers utterly outside the possibilities of matter. The union of spirit and matter means that the human soul, by which our bodies are living bodies and function as living bodies, is what no other soul is, a spirit.”
 
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If you get the chance to read Theology for Beginners by F.J. Sheed it has a good section on souls.
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Awesome book! I highly recommend it. Even though it’s for “beginners”, boy was that a headsy book. I had to keep putting it down and walking away and picking it back up again.

Well worth the effort to read.
 
The souls God cares the most about, though, are the ones he created in his image. We need to be careful not to elevate the importance of animals above humans.
 
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