please, only serious answers...not anything extremely insulting. but i believe animals are like us, they live, they die, they are forgivin, and they go to heaven.
2006-06-28 11:00:13 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do not know I have not been there , I can only imagine there will be some there but I must wait and see. No one can really answer that unless they were there and came back and shared what they learned. I love animals as well but they are not the same as us nor can they do wrong/sin, they just do. Hope that helps
2006-06-29 07:21:32 · answer #1 · answered by momsapplepeye 6 · 8⤊ 3⤋
All dogs go to heaven. Since animals don't do any true "evil" acts, they can't be punished because they don't acknowledge a difference between right and wrong.
They act on instinct and don't weigh out future events so they are not responsible for their actions. Unfortunately, neither are evil men who convert to Christianity on their death bed--according to fundamentalists.
but anyway, that is like asking if all children go to heaven. The only ones who in an ethical standpoint should be punished for evil are grown humans who have the ability to determine right from wrong. I think the justice system weighs this out appropriately in the laws we have on the books.
2006-06-28 11:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main two things that seperates humans form animals are a free will and a soul. Without a free will, you cannot sin. Animals act upon instinct, not a will. Animals can't go to heaven because they have no soul.
2006-06-28 11:45:18 · answer #3 · answered by dantrc724 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God-fearing men see in animals part of God’s generous provision for human welfare. Animals have served man as burden bearers, as sources of food and clothing, as sanitation agents, and as helpers in the vital activities of plowing and harvesting. Their variety of form and color has delighted his eye; their habits and instincts have been and still are an extensive field for inquiry into the marvels of God’s creative work. Though animals die in the same manner as man, they do not share his hope of a resurrection.—2Pe 2:12;
Animals were created with a limited life span, humans had the prospect of living on earth forever. (Genesis 3:22, 23; Psalm 37:29) Jesus Christ said that to enjoy “everlasting life,” we must exercise faith and take in knowledge of God—things that animals are incapable of doing. (John 3:36; 17:3)
God created animals for the sake of humans. Animals can help them do their work and can serve as their companions or pets. They also serve to magnify God’s love and wisdom.
The Creator gave life to both humans and animals. But for how long were they to continue to live? Scientists report that humans seem to have the potential of endless life, so that investigators are perplexed as to why man dies. The Bible gives the reason. It says that the Creator gave the first humans the opportunity of living forever. Death came only because they rebelled. (Gen. 2:17; 3:17-19; Rom. 5:12) What, though, of animals? They are not capable of conscious rebellion against God; yet they live only for a length of time and then die. Hence, it is clear that the Creator never purposed that individual animals live forever. For them death was natural.—2 Pet. 2:12.
2006-06-28 12:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is said that there will be animals in heaven when it talks about the lion and the lamb but it there is not prof ether way on all of the types of animals! I hope so because I love animals!
2006-06-28 11:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by princeessintraning 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They better, there are a many wonderful souls that inhabit the body of animals, the same cannot be said of humans. If I could not be with some of my favorite pets I do not want to go.
2006-06-28 11:39:30 · answer #6 · answered by jay5002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because we are humans we have souls so we either go to heaven or hell good or bad. But animals are things which have no souls so when they die they just stay there in there bodies forever or unless they get dried by the sun or ran over then dried by the sun but humans dry by the sun to but if we are in caskets our bodies will turn to ashes and the remains are bones.
2006-06-28 11:07:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one thing for a dog or a cat or a goat or a horse to get into heaven.
It's something else for a fly or a mosquito to get into heaven.
Do you see Heaven as a physical place or a spiritual state?
2006-06-28 11:03:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scripturally speaking, no they don't.
John 3:16 "God loved the world so much that he sent his only-begotten son so that everyone exercising faith in him might not die, but have everlasting life" - can animals exercise faith in Jesus?
Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20 states that animals have no future prospect of life, but that a humans prospect for life lies in God's hands.
2006-06-28 11:06:34 · answer #9 · answered by johnusmaximus1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes but they're in a different section than humans have you ever seen the movie all dogs go to heaven good movie watch it i think animals do have souls as well as they have hearts like we do ANYTHING LIVING HAS A SPIRIT.
2006-06-28 11:04:48 · answer #10 · answered by renee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to many, they don't have souls. so when they die they just stop existing. if you believe in reincarnation, then animals that are good move up a notch (and the bad ones, down) til they get it right. i personally believe that my cats and dog have souls.......they show too much love and intelligence to be without them. i'm not as nuts as my aunt who had her pit bull baptised to make sure, but i'm sure God knows where my animals faith lies..........heck, they may actually talk to Him, how would I know?
2006-06-28 11:05:09 · answer #11 · answered by Ananke402 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋