You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Question About Animals In Christianity
- Thread starter Li Ka Shing
- Start date
Quote from Li Ka Shing:
Hi everyone,
Would like to ask a question...
Do animals have souls?
After animals die, will they go to heaven/ hell too?
Is there any clue or guidance about this matter anywhere in the Bible?
And what if the animal has a close emotional bond with a human? Say for instance, me and my pet, for example. Does that increase the likelihood of a reunion in after-life?
Many thanks...
Animals are living "things". They don't have souls the way people do. They along with nature are the only things created that did not sin against God. Nature and animals obey God. Man does not.
Nature and the Univers have fallen as a direct result of Adams sin in the Garden.
like it or not we live in a fallen world.
Quote from JAGUARBONE:
Well yeah. Adam lived to a couple 700 hundred years old for starters. That was due to the amount of excess water in the atmosphere (firmament) which in turn cancelled out all UV rays.
People didn't start dying young (< 150yrs old) until after the flood. (the firmament is the source of all the rain ByTWay.) (Loosely quoted from Dr. Dinosaur - Mr. Kent Hovand.
Not according to the Bible. God allowed adam to live 900 years in order to populate the earth. since man in his wickedness and rebellion against God has continued God no longer allowed man to live that long.
Scriptures:
OF THE FALL OF MAN, OF SIN, AND OF THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF
Paragraph 1. Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,1 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who, without any compulsion, did willfully transgress the law of their creation, and the command given to them, in eating the forbidden fruit,2 which God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
1 Gen. 2:16,17
2 Gen. 3:12,13; 2 Cor. 11:3
Paragraph 2. Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:3 all becoming dead in sin,4 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.5
3 Rom. 3:23
4 Rom 5:12, etc.
5 Titus 1:15; Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10-19
Paragraph 3. They being the root, and by God's appointment, standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of the sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation,6 being now conceived in sin,7 and by nature children of wrath,8 the servants of sin, the subjects of death,9 and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.10
6 Rom. 5:12-19; 1 Cor. 15:21,22,45,49
7 Ps. 51:5; Job 14:4
8 Eph. 2:3
9 Rom. 6:20, 5:12
10 Heb. 2:14,15; 1 Thess. 1:10
Paragraph 4. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil,11 do proceed all actual transgressions.12
11 Rom. 8:7; Col. 1:21
12 James 1:14,15; Matt. 15:19
Paragraph 5. The corruption of nature, during this life, does remain in those that are regenerated;13 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.14
13 Rom. 7:18,23; Eccles. 7:20; 1 John 1:8
14 Rom. 7:23-25; Gal. 5:17
Quote from cmaxb:
The funniest thing I have heard about animals and Christianity. Some fundamentalists believe all animals were vegetarian before the "Fall" (Adam and Eve banished from the Garden). Now we are living in a depraved society, where animals would even eat each other, heaven help us.
According to Scripture that is correct.
After the Fall the Universe is in travail.
Quote from Ricter:
There is no observational reason to believe in the existence of a soul. For practicality's sake, let's stick to what we can both observe, and not allow me to start making stuff up.
So, no.
Just because you don't see something with your eyes does not mean that it does not exist. Seeing is not necessarily believing.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:1
Quote from vhehn:
the bible says you will not know even your wife in heaven so it follows that you will not know your pet. the reality is that heaven only exists in your mind so you can make it any way you want to.
http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/marriageinheaven.html
Not according to Scripture. In heaven everybody will recongnize their loveones. just as the disciples recognized Moses, Abraham etc on the mount of Transfiguration in the Gospels.
"Not according to scripture "....Quote from Aapex:
Not according to the Bible. God allowed adam to live 900 years in order to populate the earth. since man in his wickedness and rebellion against God has continued God no longer allowed man to live that long.
Scriptures:
OF THE FALL OF MAN, OF SIN, AND OF THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF
Paragraph 1. Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,1 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who, without any compulsion, did willfully transgress the law of their creation, and the command given to them, in eating the forbidden fruit,2 which God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.
1 Gen. 2:16,17
2 Gen. 3:12,13; 2 Cor. 11:3
........
According to the Bible, Adam did not sin by wilful transgression.
Both Adam & Eve would have been incapable of doing so.