Animals can be possessed by demons just the way humans can. I remember hearing Nathan Knorr give a talk at the Houston Coliseum right before he died. I was about 13 or 14 years old. It really impressed me because he said the same thing as Bro.King said in his article posted above. He said Jehovah and Jesus are creators and will always be. He talked about going back to perfection in the New World, what it would be like. He said our senses are running at minimum capacity. At 100% think what it would be like to say a prayer be able to hear your answer back from Jehovah, not in words audibly but in your mind. He talked about the earth becoming full and how Jehovah might possibly let his people go to other planets to live. Jehovah will always create, him and his son. Because of God’s unsearchable wisdom, Romans 11:33,34 applies. “O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgements are and beyond tracing out his ways are! For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his advisor?”
Brother Knorr was wrong in that assumption of a minimal function of brain capacity. Memory is the requirement for the development of reasoning and is fed by auditory and visual stimulation. Essentially, the brain is limited by cognitive overload to extrapolate infinite outcomes of information on any given subject. We are limited to reasoning upon five or six issues simultaneously upon the subject in focus. The process appears to be finite, though of course, it has yet to be be tested in “perfection” . But that does not suggest that the process we have now is not intended.
There is a reason for that: the test of loyalty to the truth depends upon a complete understanding of the issues that concern Jehovah. If we are limited in our reasoning upon the subject matter of what that loyalty requires of us, then how can it result in perfection of understanding and thus judgement? The
depth of reach in those loyalties may be beyond us at this time, but its principles must be clear in our minds. Therefore our reasoning in extrapolating truth must be unhindered if it is to be of value.
Further, we should not take the view that somehow our capabilities are hindered by imperfection. If we cannot understand the meaning of perfection, and strive for it, then where is the “love” of Jehovah evident in fairness? Thus it is not that we fail through lack of understanding, but lack of commitment. What Knorr was striving to explain was the available long term cognitive memory and which forms our framework of whom we are - or our “awareness of self”, our capacity to reason upon what we know. I.e., what we do not know we cannot reason upon. It’s that simple. It is down to us to search for it.
This is not to be confused with the gifts of Jehovah, and which we can benefit from every day of our life. The Bible asks us to “gain understanding, wisdom and to reason upon what we are given. It stands to reason that we can not reason upon what we are not given to understand. So if we understand how our brain works, then we are well able to grasp the meaning of that which we are given.
There is another way to view this matter: is not knowing, a deficit? Then why the drive to create something new, or at all? Is there to be no accomplishment in the act of creation? How could Knorr say that we only have a minimum of capacity when we know not what capacity is? Is then, Jehovah finite in this regard, and if He is not, are we less so by what we can experience if we follow Him and learn for ourselves?
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