Could someone tell me where in the Holy Bible animals are referred to as having souls?

Question

Book chapter and verse please thank you very much.

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Thank you very much I have my answer some translations use souls and others use creatures that's where the confusion came from.

Answer 1

Isaiah..11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.


All this happens after this earth age..no more flesh bodies.

Answer 2

There is NO direct Englsh translation of the Bible that says that animals have "souls". Part of the problem is the word "soul" itself...in translation it can mean any living air-breathing thing, or could be translated as human consciousness.

When describing the soul of a person, it is describing its' mind, will, and emotions. Soul is separate from spirit... spirit is what has eternal life.

Many passages can ellude to animals having souls, such as Genesis2:7 and 19, since God formed them both out of dust -so we summize they must be the same. But God giving man dominion over the animals( Genesis 1:26) would give evidence that animals have no soul (mind, will, or emotions) equal to man.....otherwise, we could not control them.

Answer 3

The Bible refers to both humans and animals as being living souls and as having the same spirit,(Ecclesiastes 3:21) BUT,---As has been brought out by several persons so far who read what the Bible says rather then listening to false doctrines put forward by men, NO-ONE and NOTHING has a SOUL. The soul IS the living entity, not a separate entity inhabiting an entity. The doctrine of an immortal soul is merely a continuation of the lie told by Satan when he told Eve "you positively will not die"

GEN3:2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Answer 4

PARABLE- par·a·ble /ˈpærəbəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[par-uh-buhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
2. a statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like.


LITERAL- lit·er·al /ˈlɪtərəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lit-er-uhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
2. following the words of the original very closely and exactly: a literal translation of Goethe.
3. true to fact; not exaggerated; actual or factual: a literal description of conditions.
4. being actually such, without exaggeration or inaccuracy: the literal extermination of a city.

Answer 5

The Bible says nothing about animals having souls, and in fact that is a teaching of many Christian denominations. Animals do not have souls and hence cannot go to heaven because they are not complex enough. Humans are the only ones that God has given the gift of a soul to; animals just are not capable of choosing Christ. Ask your dog if he loves God. See, he can't answer. Animals don't have souls.

Answer 6

it doesn't. genesis 2:7 states and the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. in the first chapter of genesis, it states nowhere that animals have souls.

Answer 7

Ecclesiastes 3:21 (NIV)
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal [ Or Who knows the spirit of man, which rises upward, or the spirit of the animal, which ] goes down into the earth?"
Ecclesiastes 3:21 (KJV)
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Pretty plain isn't it?

Answer 8

It's not mentioned anywhere, probably because they DON'T HAVE A SOUL!! When God breathed into Man's nostrils, Man became a living SOUL. To no other creature did God do this.

Answer 9

I think that you need to look at the Hebrew meaning of animals in Genesis. I believe animal was translated from a couple of different words.

Answer 10

none. It says that the animals themselves are soul.

Genesis 1:20 And God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.

Genesis 9:10 and with every living soul that is with YOU, among fowls, among beasts and among all living creatures of the earth with YOU, from all those going out of the ark to every living creature of the earth.

Leviticus 11:46 “‘This is the law about the beast and the flying creature and every living soul that moves about in the waters and concerning every soul that swarms upon the earth,