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Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump are prolific big-game hunters and during the 2016 campaign, images re-emerged of the pair on a 2011 hunting trip posing with animals they had killed on safari, including an elephant, a buffalo and a leopard.
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Like killing just for pleasure it something like that.
Animals have no Spirit, so they are never alive to begin with
from God's perspective.
God has a lot of love for animals.
Matthew 10:29
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?
That's completely wrong.
Both man and animals have a living soul and the breath of life and a spirit.
Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature [soul] that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
living= 02416 chay
creature = 05315 nephesh
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature [soul] after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
living= 02416 chay
creature = 05315 nephesh
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
living= 02416 chay
soul= 05315 nephesh
Both man and animals are a "living soul" according to God.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Man has the "breath of life".
Genesis 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
Animals also have the breath of life.
1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Man and animals have different flesh, but both are a living soul and the breath of life.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath [ru^ach]; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
What befalls the flesh of animals will also befall the flesh of man. Animals and man have the same breath! Breath here is ru^ach meaning spirit!
(YLT) For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.
Animals and man have one spirit (one spirit to all) meaning the same spirit!
07307 ruwach {roo'-akh}
from 07306; TWOT - 2131a; n f
AV - Spirit or spirit 232, wind 92, breath 27, side 6, mind 5, blast 4,
vain 2, air 1, anger 1, cool 1, courage 1, misc 6; 378
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
The flesh of animals and man both go to the same place!
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
The only difference is the spirit of man will go up to God while the spirit of an animal will go down. No resurrection for animals, no afterlife.
So, according to God both man and animals are a living soul and have the the breath of life and have a spirit.
Good research, I stand corrected. Nice!
Will any of the animals be in the next life, the new earth, and/or did Jesus save any for the new kingdom? The biggest concern I've heard is regarding wittle puppy dogs.
Well, scripture says the spirit of man goes up but the spirit of animals go down so that implies no salvation for animals. Will there be animals born in the NHNE...I don't know, scripture is silent on whether animal life exists at that time.
But see animals don't need salvation per se as they never sinned, so scripture wouldn't really ever address the salvation of animals one way or the other.
It does though. Their spirits go down while men's spirits go up.
If you're talking about Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, it's not saying that about animal spirits as a statement of fact. It's in the form of a question.
The writer is asking who else understand this not asking if it is true.
Barnes:
Who knoweth
This expression (used also in Ecc_2:19; Ecc_6:12) does not necessarily imply complete and absolute ignorance. In Psa_90:11, it is applied to what is partially understood: compare similar forms of expression in Pro_31:10; Psa_94:16; Isa_53:1.
Clarke:
The word רוח ruach, which is used in this and the nineteenth verse, has two significations, breath and spirit. It signifies spirit, or an incorporeal substance, as distinguished from flesh, or a corporeal one, 1Ki_22:21, 1Ki_22:22, and Isa_31:3. And it signifies the spirit or soul of man, Psa_31:6; Isa_57:16, and in this book, Ecc_12:7, and in many other places. In this book it is used also to signify the breath, spirit, or soul of a beast. While it was said in verse 19, they have all one breath, i.e., the man and the beast live the same kind of animal life; in this verse, a proper distinction is made between the רוח ruach, or soul of man, and the רוח ruach, or soul of the beast: the one goeth upwards, the other goeth downwards. The literal translation of these important words is this: “Who considereth the רוח ruach) immortal spirit of the sons of Adam, which ascendeth? it is from above; (היא למעלה hi lemalah); and the spirit or breath of the cattle which descendeth? it is downwards unto the earth,” i.e., it tends to the earth only.