(March 26, 2016 at 9:54 am)abaris Wrote:From what I understand, all animals have an experience of divine but they don't have the degree or middle balanced station of humanity. One important thing is that what our nature from the divine is, we ought to be true to it. That is to not to say simply what God creates, but in so far, as our nature is derived from God, we ought to act according to it. And we ought to move so we are more in tune with the divine. The animals all glorify God by a praise that is something we overall don't understand as humans.(March 26, 2016 at 9:23 am)MysticKnight Wrote: It's not the case that he simply commands, rather he creates through the truth of his standards (divine names) which are based on his essence. He doesn't decide morality or create it from nothing. Neither does it exist separately from him or independent of him, but rather he is the standard.
And how do you explain "human" morality standards with animals? I'm not holding my breath of any theist looking at the scientific evidence or to comment on it. It would burst their bubble of being special.
Of course evolution happens to morality because there is a link to all beings to God. Otherwise a mutation giving a different understanding of morality is not a reason to believe in it, but if it gives a more link to understanding of divine, then the mutation is reminding of something eternal, all stages in all hues and forms are to be found in God as far as the beauty and glory is concerned.
In fact, from a different angle, everything is a complete manifestation of God in so far as God is the ultimate of it and the ultimate of it is what unites all existence.