Biblical Concept: Sentient
Dictionary
Definitions
Sentient 1: responsive to or conscious of sense impressions <sentient
beings> 2: aware 3:
finely sensitive in perception or feeling
Sentience 1: a sentient quality or state 2: feeling or sensation as
distinguished from perception and thought
Animate 1: possessing or characterized by life: alive 2:
full of life: animated 3: of or relating to animal life as
opposed to plant life 4: referring to a living thing
Living 1a: having life b: active, functioning <living languages> 2 a:
exhibiting the life or motion of nature: natural <the wilderness is a living museum … of natural
history — NEA Journal> b: live 2a 3a: full of life or vigor b:
true to life: vivid
<televised in living color> c: suited for living
<the living area> 4: involving living persons 5: very —used as an intensive <scared
the living daylights out of me>
Alive 1: having life: not dead or inanimate
2 a: still in existence, force, or operation: active <kept hope alive> b:
still active in competition with a chance of victory <must win to stay alive
in the playoffs> 3: knowing or realizing the existence of : sensitive <alive to the
danger> 4: marked by
alertness, energy, or briskness <his face came alive at the mention
of food> 5: marked by much life, animation, or activity: swarming
<streets alive with traffic> 6: used as an intensive following the
noun <the proudest boy alive>
Tactile 1: perceptible by touch: tangible 2: of, relating
to, or being the sense of touch (The 4du is tactile creation.)
Theology and Sentient
Why did God do anything? What did God really do? Shared sentience is the answer. Because He felt like it is an answer. Because, volitional freewill shared sentience was worth it to Him.
Genesis 1:26-27 26 Then God said, "Let Us make
man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of
the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 And God created man in His own
image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God
formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living being. (Only God makes alive.) (God creates sentience.) (Want to be like God?, create
sentience.)
Luke 12:4-5 4 "And I say to you, My
friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no
more that they can do. 5
"But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who after He has killed
has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him! ( “Fear Him”: The
most important Concept for Sentient Beings— Angels or Humans.) (So, sentient beings, some made in His image, sinful
and refusing to believe in Him as Creator or Savior, are going to be tortured
forever in a lake of fire. Fear God is
the proper volitional response.) (The
volitional mess that is Sinful Angels and Unbelieving Humans, will be overcome
/ replaced with a new heavens and earth in which righteousness dwells. The best is yet to come. Fear God.) (But remember, God is love and
desires the death of no man.) (Volitional creatures in the Spu
and 4du do not show the best side of God.)
Matthew 16:26 26 "For what will a man be
profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Or what will a
man give in exchange for his soul? (Sentient value.) (Immaterial Man: breath
/ spark of life, sentient, heart,
soul, spirit, mind, conscience, emotions, and sin nature.)
Colossians 3:10 10 and have put on the new self
who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who
created him (Sentient image restoration.)
Conclusions: Enjoy your eternal tactile sentience. For me, the feeling of a breeze flowing over
my tactile senses is priceless. Think: hot day, cool breeze, alpine tree scent,
etc. Note: Genesis 3:8 8 And they heard the sound of the
LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Evidently demons like / love the tactile enough to enjoy possessing pigs—Mark 5:1-20. Note their enjoyment of the tactile in
Genesis 6:1-4.
(Hyperlinked from above.)
Mark 5:1-20 1 And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. 2
And when He had come out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an
unclean spirit met Him, 3 and
he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore,
even with a chain; 4 because
he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn
apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough
to subdue him. 5 And
constantly night and day, among the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying
out and gashing himself with stones. 6
And seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him; 7 and crying out with a loud
voice, he said, "What do I have to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most
High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!" 8 For He had been saying to him,
"Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" 9 And He was asking him,
"What is your name?" And he said to Him, "My name is Legion; for
we are many." 10 And he began to entreat Him earnestly not to
send them out of the country. 11
Now there was a big herd of swine feeding there on the mountain. 12 And the demons entreated Him, saying, "Send us into the swine so
that we may enter them." 13
And He gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the
swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand
of them; and they were drowned in the
sea. 14 And their herdsmen
ran away and reported it in the city and out
in the country. And the people came
to see what it was that had happened. 15
And they came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demon-possessed
sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the
"legion"; and they became frightened.
16 And those who had seen it described to them how it had
happened to the demon-possessed man, and all
about the swine. 17 And
they began to entreat Him to depart from their region. 18 And as He was getting into the
boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was entreating Him that he might
accompany Him. 19 And He did
not let him, but He said to him, "Go home to your people and report to
them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you."
20 And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what
great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone marveled.
Genesis 6:1-4 1 Now it came about, when men began
to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that
the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves,
whomever they chose. 3 Then
the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he
also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty
years." 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also
afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty
men who were of old, men of renown