Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Arch S. Reynolds on Animal Spirits

  

ANIMAL SPIRITS

 

David shows that animals are created and God takes away their breath. (See Psa. 104:29-30) “Thou taketh away their breath,” and also, “Thou sendeth forth thy spirit (Spirit in Inspired v.), they are created.” This is spoken of animals.

 

“And all things shall become new, even the heaven and the earth, and all the fulness thereof, both men and beasts, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea.” (D.C. 29:24: See D.C. Commentary, p. 24) Paul teaches that all life—man, beasts, fishes, and fowls—shall be restored: “For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Rom. 8:19-21). Creatures came to the earth unwillingly, not as man, with the privilege of becoming free from bondage, to partake of the “glorious liberty” over there as we. (Arch S. Reynolds, God’s Ways are Wonderful, Comprehensible [Springville, Utah: Arch S. Reynolds, n.d.], 58)