I’m really showing my ignorance with these polls, so good on you for encouraging humility.
I believe there must be first humans bestowed by God with the soul, and those first humans are the origins of ensouled humans made in the Image of God, male and female made for communion with each other and God.
Whether it was specifically just two, or a group, or if it was two that then mated with biologically identical but not ensouled creatures in a group, or some other arrangement, I don’t know. I tend take most of early Genesis more as the foundation for our anthropology and telos than as a literal basis for our evolution, but I simply don’t know.
Great poll and comments.
I’m really showing my ignorance with these polls, so good on you for encouraging humility.
I believe there must be first humans bestowed by God with the soul, and those first humans are the origins of ensouled humans made in the Image of God, male and female made for communion with each other and God.
Whether it was specifically just two, or a group, or if it was two that then mated with biologically identical but not ensouled creatures in a group, or some other arrangement, I don’t know. I tend take most of early Genesis more as the foundation for our anthropology and telos than as a literal basis for our evolution, but I simply don’t know.