Human Life Henk Kamsteeg God cares for every living thing, including plants and animals. The important place animals occupy is expressed also by the fact that from Israel God accepted animals as sacrifices in exchange for human life. It should not escape our notice that the coming kingdom of peace will include animals and plants, too. We must respect living things. We must care for animals.
Animal abuse is, from the Bible s viewpoint, an abomination.
If we should respect everything that lives, then surely that applies to human life. They represent God on earth. Had Pharaoh s plan to kill all Israelite baby boys succeeded, Israel would have gradually died out. It would have been more than a house of slavery. It would have been a house of death.