Does God care about animals?

[Akuma]

I mean, it doesn't really say that he saves animals like he does us, I don't think. Or perhaps he just doesn't care about animals as much as he does us. He didn't have Noah save the animals for any old reason. We need animals to survive. Does God show grief when animals die? Humans certainly do. We were made as caretakers for them, in part.

 

[JJB]

Of course, God cares about animals! He created them!

Look at what Jesus says when he talks about people and how we worry.
Matthew 6:26-

"Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?"

God cares about all of His creation, not just us. But creatures, unlike us, do only what God created them for. They do not worry like we do, because they know they will be taken care of. Yes, I do agree that we are to be good stewards of animals and the rest of the natural world.

 

[Trench777]

Another scripture of note, regarding God's care of animals (specifically pets);

Read 2 Samuel 12:1 to about 12:15. Nathan gives David an analogy comparing Bathsheba and Uriah to a poor man and his pet sheep. A rich man steals the poor man's lamb and serves it for dinner. David (the man after God's own heart) replies in a Godly manner to the story (in my opinion) and says the rich man did not show pity and would be punished for it.

I've inferred from this story that God cares for pets (scholars might dismiss it as simply an analogy that has nothing to do with God's interest in pets...you can decide for yourself, if you read it.)

T777

 

[Lynn73]

Yes, I'd say God cares something about animals.

Pr 12:10

- Show Context A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Also, doesn't it say something about God noticing even when a sparrow falls.

 

[rejectreality]

God cares for animals. Like us, they're His creation. I don't know if they get saved like we do because we were created specificaly for God to have a relationship with. And like it was stated by Akuma, Noah didn't save em for nothing!
God bless