Do you think that animals can go heaven?If not,why?

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Does He make things unable to accept Him

That would be a yes.

John 6:65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

 

[usexpat97]

How can Heaven be Heaven if my buds aren't there?

If coming Home is anything like coming home, they will be at the door and on my knees before Jesus, the angels, and everyone else get there.

 

[gYx]

They can if they raise their self-awareness

raising self-awareness means raising level of vibration

a process of leveling to a higher "self"

 

[The Barbarian]

Animals are blessed by being innocent, having no idea of evil or good.

I, for one, would be delighted to see my old friends again in heaven. I don't know if they will be, but I do hope so.

I have an old dog, going on 16 years or so; she's a rescue, and I don't know for sure. She's slowing down, and I know she'll be leaving soon. After that much time, one develops a very strong friendship with a dog. We can hope.

 

[GenemZ]

I always wonder if animals can or not go to heaven.As a person who loves animals,I wish it's possible.

In Genesis One God created the souls for animals, and then the souls for man. Both were created 'bara' - out from nothing.

Man's soul was created differently than animal souls. How? Man's soul was created in God's image. The animal souls were generic souls to perform a function.

If we are to see the animals we know in heaven? Then all dinosaurs of previous creations would be in heaven too.

But, it appears there will be a heavenly version of animals. A much higher creation. After all, we read about the four horsemen from heaven. As far as I can tell, those horses were not from earth.

 

[The Barbarian]

There are no "generic souls." Everyone is created by God and although ours are different than those of other animals, those animals experience love, and fear, and anger, just as we do. They deserve respect and care, because God made them that way.

Not as humans, but as other children of God. I don't know if they are immortal or not. But a peaceable kingdom in heaven that included dinosaurs would be a wonderful thing.

 

[bekkilyn]

What would be so bad about having dinosaurs in heaven?

 

[SkyWriting]

Gordon Clark (taught philosophy at Butler University in Indianapolis) said: In one way this is reminiscent 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, they are souls. Some people are afraid to say that animals have 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.

Jesus only came to save man. The animals are for eating.

John 21
13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and He did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after He was raised from the dead.

 

[SkyWriting]

What would be so bad about having dinosaurs in heaven?

They would have be baptized and like the insects, too big a hassle.

 

[Lost4words]

I always wonder if animals can or not go to heaven.As a person who loves animals,I wish it's possible.

I hope so! Woof!

 

[ViaCrucis]

Scripture speaks of God's healing and renewal of creation. Our hope isn't "going to heaven", which is really just the intermediate state of rest between death and resurrection; rather our hope is the resurrection of the body, life in the Age to Come, the new heavens and new earth where all things have been restored.

When talking about the Age to Come, Scripture does mention animals. We read in Isaiah that the wolf shall lie down with the lamb, and that the lion shall eat straw like an ox.

So, does animal life exist in the Age to Come? The answer is yes, since this is the renewal and restoration of all creation.

What we don't know is if individual animals, such as our pets, will have a place in the Age to Come. We don't know, and can't know, but I am hopeful.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Dave L]

Jesus only came to save man. The animals are for eating.

John 21
13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and He did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after He was raised from the dead.

They didn't eat animals until after the flood.....

 

[SkyWriting]

They didn't eat animals until after the flood.....

Me thinks God knew ahead of time about man eating animals and the Flood.
And Jesus feeding fish to the crowds.
And everything you will do tomorrow.

 

[Dave L]

Me thinks God knew ahead of time about man eating animals and the Flood.

God knows the beginning from the end....he created both and all in between.

 

[Archivist]

Jesus only came to save man. The animals are for eating.

Don’t you even think about eating my kitties! I love them and they love me.

 

[SkyWriting]

Don’t you even think about eating my kitties! I love them and they love me.

My dogs love me, but dog and cats are eaten in much of asia.

 

[Archivist]

My dogs love me, but dog and cats are eaten in much of asia.

Yes, I know that, but don’t you try to eat my cats. And yes, I hope my kitties will be with me in heaven.

 

[Dennis12]

I always wonder if animals can or not go to heaven.As a person who loves animals,I wish it's possible.

From Rev 22:2 we know that there are trees in heaven - so I would think it was safe to say there are animals there too. All life is precious:

 

[joshua 1 9]

I always wonder if animals can or not go to heaven.As a person who loves animals,I wish it's possible.

I think that animals go to heaven because of our love for them. All of creation is redeemed through us.

 

[joshua 1 9]

But what about the mosquito, or the great white pointer, or a viper, or a stone fish? What about the animals we eat, and therefore (in one sense) are involved in their death, even if only as consumers?

Did you ever read "Hinds feet on High Places"? Hannah Smith address the issues of why bee's sting people. John Wesley deal with the issue of food by saying that the essence of an animal passes right through you. It is the energy contained in them that we can use for our own personal source of energy. So even if someone is eaten by a shark they will still rise up at the resurrection. We are mostly energy anyways, there is very little actual physical matter in us. Maybe a teaspoon. The entire universe started out smaller then a mustard seed.