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My husband and I just recently lost our first Dog to cancer. We ended up having to put him down do to breathing complication from swelling in the lungs and throat. He was part of our family and a wonderfull friend. Will we see him again in heaven? I will miss him deeply.

2007-07-19 12:41:00 · 10 answers · asked by Adrenaline Junckie 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Heaven is frequently called the New Eden in Scriptures. So I look at what was in the original Eden. I see that there were animals and we lived peacfully with those animals.

While the Bible does not specifically say that your beloved dog himself will be there lets think about the God that made him and your family.

Heaven will be better than this current world. There will be more love and happiness than we have here. God was gracious enough to create your dog in the first place out of love for you and him. We do know that we will have all that we need in heaven to have perfect lives. So I trust God will have animals like you beloved dog and our beloved pets with us because I know how much He loves us.

The Bible points to animals being in Heaven and God is so generous that I think it would be just like our Heavenly Father to haveyour beloved dog waiting for you when you arrive in Heaven to start Eternity.

2007-07-19 12:55:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anthony M 6 · 2 0

I know that you do, and my sympathies go out to you, along with my prayers....

I have had many great dogs...and I expect to see them all in heaven. Especially my little Sera (the mini-Schnauzer) that I put down a few years back.

For those who say "NO!" - may I ask, in all sincerity, where do the horses come from in the Heavenly vision of the Book of Revelation.?

2007-07-19 19:45:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Sad to say, no.

I hope the truth does not increase your hurt, but it's best you know.

Ecc 3:19 For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
Ecc 3:21 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

2007-07-19 20:11:36 · answer #3 · answered by rangedog 7 · 1 1

I honestly don't know, but A friend of The Refiner's Fire (and fellow animal lover) summed it up like this:

I know animals have a soul. God doesn't create something only to throw it away.


God created animals first, so He must have a "thing" for critters.


God created man to take care of the animals; He even had us name them. Plus, someone has to take care of the animals in Heaven and when the Lord returns.


A world without animals would be a drag. God said He would give us the desires of our heart. I desire my animals.


God gives animals to us for comfort when we are lonely; or because we need companionship - or to keep our feet warm in winter. God is not an "indian giver".


Why would God give me a mansion devoid of animals? They have to stay someplace....


Animals are capable of love. God is love!

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2007-07-19 20:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Its very possible that you will have him with you in heaven.
God saved animals as well as people when He sent the flood in Noah's day. Animals were used many times in the bible to fulfill God's purposes. In the book of Jonah, God expressed His concern for not only the people of Ninevah but for its "many cattle as well." In 2 Samuel 12:3 "There's no suggestion that this man's affection for his pet was inappropriate."

2007-07-19 19:52:37 · answer #5 · answered by Renata 6 · 1 0

In the name of God

There is not an animal that crawls in the earth, nor a bird that flies on its two wings, but they are communities like you. We have left out nothing in the Book. Then to their Lord shall they all be gathered together.

And how many an animal there is that carries not its sustenance! Allah provides for it and for you. And He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing

Holy Quran

This particular insect has been selected as a title (Aayat) of a Surah, "The Ants" in the Noble Quran. Briefly, it discusses the advent of Hadhrat Sulayman (Alayhis salaam), gathered with his hosts of Jinn, men and birds and they marched in arranged groups till they reached the Valley of Ants. Said one Ant "Oh you Ants! get back into your dwellings, least Sulayman and his hosts crush you unintentionally".(Quran)

Prophet (King) Sulayman (S) came out seeking for water. Incidentally he spotted an ant facing its bottom downwards the sky and struggling with its legs facing upwards and saying, "Oh Allah we are a creation from Your Creation, we are not independent from your quenching our thirst, either you refreshen us and feed us or either kill us and destroy us.

Awareness and Desire in Animals

An animal knows the world through its external senses only. That is why, firstly, its knowledge is superficial and seeming. It does not penetrate the things and has no access to their internal relations. Secondly, it is partial and particular, and is neither universal nor general. Thirdly, it is regional, for it is confined to the living environment of the animal, and does not go beyond that. Fourthly, it is limited to the present and is unconcerned with the past and the future. As animal is not aware of its own or world's history, it neither thinks of the future nor does it plan for it.

From the viewpoint of knowledge, an animal cannot come out of the framework of the exteriors, the particularity, the living environment and the present time. It never escapes from these four prisons. If by chance it does, it does so instinctively and unconsciously, and not by its own choice and will.

Like the range of its knowledge, the level of the wants and the desires of an animal also has a limited scope. Firstly, all its desires are material and do not go beyond the limits of eating, drinking, sleeping, playing, mating and building a home or a nest. For an animal there is no question of any spiritual needs, moral values etc. Secondly, all its desires are personal and individualistic, pertaining to the animal itself or, at the most, to its mate and the young ones. Thirdly, they are regional related to its living environment only. Fourthly, they are instantaneous, pertaining to the present time.

In other words, the dimension of the desires and inclinations of an animal's existence has the same limitations as the dimension of its perceptive existence. From this point of view also, an animal has to live within specific limitations.

If an animal pursues an objective which is outside these limitations and which, for an example, pertains to its species in general and not to one individual or pertains to the future and not to the present, as is observed in the case of certain gregarious animals like bees, it does so unconsciously, instinctively and by the direct order of the power which has created it and which manages the whole world.

2007-07-19 20:10:32 · answer #6 · answered by MUHAMMAD 5 · 0 2

Sorry, but no. Animals, plants, rocks, minerals, etc. are part of the natural environment, and we can't take such things with us. I realize that one can form a close attachment to a domesticated animal, a pet, but domestication doesn't confer eternal life. A person can also form a close attachment to their rose garden, their summer home, their coin collection, or whatever. But these things too are part of the natural world we leave behind. We have eternal life because we are created in God's image and likeness, and because Christ won our salvation on the Cross. Neither of these statements applies to animals.

2007-07-19 20:01:01 · answer #7 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1 1

I am very sorry to hear about your dog. IF there is a heaven, humans and animals alike will go there.

2007-07-19 19:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa 3 · 0 0

some will probably say no...but...I feel like God will allow our pets in heaven with us...he said he would give us the desire of our hearts...and he has placed these animals in our care and love ..why would he not let them spend eternity with us ...

2007-07-19 19:45:48 · answer #9 · answered by ✞ Ephesians 2:8 ✞ 7 · 0 0

NO.

2007-07-19 19:45:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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