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If you think of the Garden of Eden, which verses spring out?
Ge:1:21: And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
This is why the sea is full of things. And
Ge:3:4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Ge:3:5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
This why we are mortal but ‘as gods’ and know good and evil and, for this, we must die like the beasts.
Yet, there is an exception. There is an animal that is immensely good. So immensely good that it was not cursed with original sin and forced to be mortal; an animal that did not listen to the snake; an animal that did not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge; an animal that God, above all other animals, loves dearly. He loves it because even though it has no free will, what will it has, it uses it only for good deeds. It lives a life in the footsteps of Jesus.
An animal that is immortal.
Now note, that God also loves the Salamander. Why he should love it, I don’t know. Salamanders are not particularly well favored around the face, particularly intelligence, or good with children and finance, but this is a Mystery of God. Perhaps it is because the Salamander reminds God of the snake that had legs before it turned out to be “more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.” I don’t know, but He loves that Salamander. We know he loves it because if a Salamander looses a leg, God makes sure it can re-grow it.
Our sin prevents us regrowing limbs, and the snake can never regrow any of its legs.
It is time to retire to my prayer closet and thank God for absolutely everything.
Ge:1:21: And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
This is why the sea is full of things. And
Ge:3:4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Ge:3:5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
This why we are mortal but ‘as gods’ and know good and evil and, for this, we must die like the beasts.
Yet, there is an exception. There is an animal that is immensely good. So immensely good that it was not cursed with original sin and forced to be mortal; an animal that did not listen to the snake; an animal that did not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge; an animal that God, above all other animals, loves dearly. He loves it because even though it has no free will, what will it has, it uses it only for good deeds. It lives a life in the footsteps of Jesus.
An animal that is immortal.
The world's only immortal animal
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.
Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.
Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.
Our sin prevents us regrowing limbs, and the snake can never regrow any of its legs.
It is time to retire to my prayer closet and thank God for absolutely everything.
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