“This doesn’t seem to be a part of standard Christian or Jewish theology,”
~Actually even if there is no outright statement in the Bible, through the years, it is commonly accepted that human supremacy is stated in Genesis 1:26 - “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image’”. Man is created in God’s image—making him superior to all. Also in Gen. 3:22 - “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil”. Man is like a God—the only difference is that they are not immortal.
Not necessarily my opinion, just what I believe the theology says, and what I have heard from theist friends that the theology says.
But both religions also have angels which are depicted often as in some ways superior to humans. (Incidentally, I suspect that Gen 1:26 was originally intended to be more literal, with a host of deities of roughly human-looking deities creating creatures that looked like themselves.)
“This doesn’t seem to be a part of standard Christian or Jewish theology,”
~Actually even if there is no outright statement in the Bible, through the years, it is commonly accepted that human supremacy is stated in Genesis 1:26 - “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image’”. Man is created in God’s image—making him superior to all. Also in Gen. 3:22 - “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil”. Man is like a God—the only difference is that they are not immortal.
Not necessarily my opinion, just what I believe the theology says, and what I have heard from theist friends that the theology says.
But both religions also have angels which are depicted often as in some ways superior to humans. (Incidentally, I suspect that Gen 1:26 was originally intended to be more literal, with a host of deities of roughly human-looking deities creating creatures that looked like themselves.)
Though people may think of it as an optimum for non-supernatural beings.