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TheDazzle239: 11 months ago

Do animals have souls?

Someone told me that when you pass; every pet you ever had will be there waiting for you.

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FirstBorn1: 11 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 10:19PM on 6/30/2012

The Bible states that both man (Genesis 2:7) and animals (Genesis 1:30; 6:17; 7:15, 22) have the breath of life.
Animals are a part of God's creative process in Genesis. God created the animals and said they were good (Genesis 1:25). Therefore, there is no reason why there could not be animals on the new earth (Revelation 21:1). There will most definitely be animals during the millennial kingdom (Isaiah 11:6; 65:25).
It is impossible to say definitively whether some of these animals might be the pets we had while here on earth. We do know that God is just and that when we get to heaven we will find ourselves in complete agreement with His decision on this issue, whatever it may be.
I have a feeling that we will see everybody and everything that we've ever loved in our paradise called Heaven.

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FirstBorn1: 11 months ago via iPhone

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Well, I'm going to try to get to bed before sunrise for a change. Lol
I will have you in my prayers for a speedy recovery. Now, you get some rest Missy and get off the computer.

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ManOfKnowledge: 10 months ago

Awesome answer, green!

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FirstBorn1: 10 months ago via iPhone

MON..., Thankyou Sir. :)

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AgeofSinfoniaFan: 11 months ago via Android

No

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TheDazzle239: 11 months ago

Okay, green for you!

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NewBloodAngel: 11 months ago

ummm right....umm no they dont....

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TheDazzle239: 11 months ago

Greenie

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Hollow_Breeder: 11 months ago

Hmm.. I don't think so..? But we'll never know right? WHO REALLY KNOWS???

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TheDazzle239: 11 months ago

But it would be nice! Green for your answer!

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Hollow_Breeder: 11 months ago

Yeah? I'm a vegetarian and we're actually supposed to believe that we can reincarnate into POSSIBLY animals. So? yeah...hahaha

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clairefloy: 11 months ago via Android

Yeaah they dooo? ??

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TheDazzle239: 11 months ago

Green Thanks!

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ManOfKnowledge: 11 months ago | Last edited at 10:06PM on 6/30/2012

Absolutely, all animals possess a spirit. First, the Catholic Church does not teach that animals do not have souls. In Christian philosophy, all living beings have a "soul." Human beings have a "rational" soul, which is immortal. From here, theologians can speculate: Do animals go to heaven? Heaven is often called "paradise." Most people could not possibly imagine a paradise without our loving animals.

Hope this helps! - ManOfKnowledge

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FirstBorn1: 11 months ago via iPhone

Hi MOK..... Can I give you a Greenie for your really nice answer?
Greenie! Good to see ya. :)

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shinypate1: 10 months ago via iPhone

Good one MOK

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ManOfKnowledge: 10 months ago

Thanks guys

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FirstBorn1: 10 months ago via iPhone

Smiling:)

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cookieroma: 11 months ago via iPhone

Firstborn is right! It's very clear that only humans have souls.

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FirstBorn1: 11 months ago via iPhone

Thankyou cookie. :)
Greenie for your basket!

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Incredibella: 10 months ago

I always agree with you cookieroma except this time.. The spirit which was given to us will return to our creator. The soul dies when the body dies... Just think it through. This is why during times past, animals have warned and even spoken to humans. you still get a green for your defensive reply.

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shinypate1: 10 months ago via iPhone

They have spirits, and the Tanach says the spirit of the animal returns to the earth, but the spirit of man returns to God, for God breathed his spirit into man, and he became a living soul.

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keatron: 10 months ago via iPhone

What's a Tanach?

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shinypate1: 10 months ago via iPhone

What is commonly called Old Testament.

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ManOfKnowledge: 10 months ago

Perfect answer.

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fuzymunky01: 10 months ago

They have no eternal spirit. Neither do humans. We are all flesh like monkeys. Simply put as humans we don't have a spirit to live on. That's it after death. The Christian/catholic religions have lied to you all.

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shinypate1: 10 months ago via iPhone

Does it bother you that 93% of people don't believe you? This isn't as close as an election. It's a blowout.

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fuzymunky01: 10 months ago

That's the point that 93% of people have been mislead. The rest know the truth. God said that wide is gate leading to destruction and narrow is the one to salvation. Those 93% if they don't find the truth will be goin through that wide gate of destruction.

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Incredibella: 10 months ago

17 Billion people have come and gone... They are all wrong while you and a handful of cultists are right?

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fuzymunky01: 10 months ago

They have all gone. Nowhere after death. Heaven is for god and spirits like angels not humans. And hell or Gehenna is mankind's common grave which is nothingness the opposite of life. We cease to exist. We haven't always been jws and some teachings have changed due to the truth find in the bible and we realized that there is no afterlife for us humans. God never made us spiritual beings. Gods purpose was for man to live forever right? Before Adam and eve failed, but since they failed they died and thus doomed us. So if god wanted us to live forever why would he give us an eternal spirit for an afterlife that we didn't need because we were designed to live forever? Truth is we don't have a spirit. The trinity Is a lie like hell.

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CountryGirl_Pride: 10 months ago

Of course they do! They're living, breathing, thinking, moving creatures, aren't they?! My doggie is very soulful!

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brittybee: 10 months ago

no they dont. we humans are created in the image of God. that means our souls will live eternally like God because He breathed His own breath into us.

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Em0PuNK: 10 months ago

Yeah. Animals are just like us humans. Plus, we are animals. We just don't have fur and everything else that animals possess. When we die, our souls can usually get into an animal or else a human again. Re-carnation. That's what it's called. So, animals do have souls. If they didn't, they would be evil and really mean, and when they did die, what is there for God to take? The dude always takes someone or something with a soul.

I'm not a Christian, but I do believe in souls in animals and re-carnation.

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