Animals in Heaven
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If you study Eschatology carefully, you'll find that Jesus descends to the mount of Olives before anything else. These white horses are mounted afterward, then the armies of heaven and Jesus comes to the valley of Jehoshaphat for Armageddon.
In addition to that. Animals expire, it says so in psalm 104. They are not body soul and spirit like we are, otherwise they would be made in the image of God too. Only humans are made in God's image.
Yes, there will be animals in heaven, just not the ones from this earth.
In addition to that. Animals expire, it says so in psalm 104. They are not body soul and spirit like we are, otherwise they would be made in the image of God too. Only humans are made in God's image.
Yes, there will be animals in heaven, just not the ones from this earth.
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Biblically there isn't enough information to give a definitive answer.
Here is 2 possible answers to this question. https://www.gotquestions.org/pets-heaven.html
Each are simply a assumption because the Bible isn't specific about animals but mainly focuses on human souls.
Here is 2 possible answers to this question. https://www.gotquestions.org/pets-heaven.html
Each are simply a assumption because the Bible isn't specific about animals but mainly focuses on human souls.
Gordon Clark (taught philosophy at Butler University in Indianapolis) said: "of Genesis 2:7. As God breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath or spirit of life, so too God sent forth his spirit into the animals."
"Some people are afraid to say that animals have souls. They not only have souls, but they are also souls. Some people are afraid to say that animals have a spirit. But Genesis 6:17 and 7:15, and Psalm 104:29, as well as Ecclesiastes 3:21 ascribe spirit to animals. Animals are souls. They are not just clay."
"Some people are afraid to say that animals have souls. They not only have souls, but they are also souls. Some people are afraid to say that animals have a spirit. But Genesis 6:17 and 7:15, and Psalm 104:29, as well as Ecclesiastes 3:21 ascribe spirit to animals. Animals are souls. They are not just clay."
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- animals clearly have bodies
- animals have souls.
Genesis 1-2 uses exactly the same word 'nephesh chayah' = 'living soul' - to describe all creatures as it does man- Genesis 1:20, 1:21, 1:24, 1:30, 2:7, 9:10, 9:15-16
- man 'became a living soul' when God breathed into him -- exactly the same term describes all animals, however unfortunate it is that translators long ago decided to call man a 'soul' and everything else a 'creature'
- animals also have exactly the same breath of life by which man became a soul
- Genesis 6:17, 7:15, 7:22, Ecclesiastes 3:19
- animals have spirits
- Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Psalm 104:29-30
- Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Psalm 104:29-30
'animals expire' you say -- what, men do not?
same breath, same life. same Creator -- the difference? animals do not sin, but man does. animals know who God is, but man does not. animals look to Him, but man does not regard Him. who is the one that is truly 'soulless' ? ?
The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib;
Israel does not know, My people do not consider.
(Isaiah 1:3)
Israel does not know, My people do not consider.
(Isaiah 1:3)
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WE expire also, does that mean we don't have souls and spirits? All of creation was made by God, and it worships Him. 
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No i don't believe so. The soul is the mind, will an emotions (including our ability to reason beyond the natural instincts of self preservation). The N.T. says that animals are unreasoning beings, making it clear that they don't have souls. If they did, then they would be triune like us and therefore in the image of God. But only Humans were created in the image of God, not animals, or angels or anything else. Humans are unique in the triune design of God.
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Where does the Bible say this?
Again, where does the Bible say this?
Peter says that false teachers are "like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed" (2 Peter 2:12)
Jude agree with this: "But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed" (Jude 10)
The Greek for "unreasoning"=
Again, where does the Bible say this?
Peter says that false teachers are "like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed" (2 Peter 2:12)
Jude agree with this: "But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed" (Jude 10)
The Greek for "unreasoning"=
You have had a pet before right? Have you ever noticed how they have different personalities and quirks? How they can be really happy sad or angry? If you had a cat did you ever have trouble keeping it off the keyboard?
Something that has no soul could not do any of this it would just go through the motions like a machine
Something that has no soul could not do any of this it would just go through the motions like a machine
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