What Jesus Wants: for humans to be considered better than dogs?? better than RATS?? better than snails?!!??
What Satan Wants: all life forms are good, wonderful; perfect
I’m sorry, but the idea that humans are above snails is a goddamn fallacy.
Why does god hate his eggs sunny side up
How is everything above octopi
To be fair, it’s not talking about which creatures are “better” than which other creatures. The theological concept it’s referring to is natural dominion, i.e., which creatures naturally have authority over which other creatures.
Thus, the infographic on the left implies a natural order in which - among other things - sharks have dominion over trees. How often is that actually going to come up? That seems like poor planning on God’s part.
As someone who is into pen and paper RPGs, I would’ve thought you’d understand the danger that unforeseen rules interactions could pose to a proper working order.
Okay, now you’ve got me trying to imagine the bizarre edge case that obliged God-the-GM to issue an official ruling that sharks have dominion over trees. That feels like the sort of rule with a story behind it.
I have no trouble believing that someone went through the bible and used various verses to create a ranked order of dominion, BUT… How on earth would said order be related to these verses???
1 Timothy 4 (NIV)
4 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
The first rule of Evangelical Christianity is that if you can’t think of a verse that actually supports whatever point you’re trying to make, just cite one of the verses about not being led astray by false teachers and call it a day.
