Fellow christians me and my friends were debating...?

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Well today at school me and my friends were debating if animals have souls and go to heaven are not. He doesn't seem to thing so. I on the other hand think they do. I mean God wouldn't have made them just to let them vanish when they die right? I need some outsiders opinions please. What are your views on this?
 
First, prove that there is a heaven
Second, prove that there are souls.

If you cannot do the above, whether animals have souls and go to heaven becomes a moot point.
 
In the bible, animals have souls. I believe that they have a special heaven for them. But it probably is down in the earth somewhere. Before Jesus raised from the dead, Paradise was down in the earth in Abraham's bosom also. But when the atonement was made for sin by the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Then those in Paradise ascended to the 3rd heaven.

The reason being is that when we receive Jesus atonement for our sins, we are born of the Spirit. And become spiritual souls. We are a trinity again; body, soul & spirit. In the beginning Adam was a body, soul & spirit. But the day they ate of the forbidden fruit, came spiritual death, then physical death. So the soul went where the Lord put the soul.
In the OT, the High Priest would make an animal sacrifice for the peoples sins each year. And so their sins were covered, but they weren't born of the Spirit yet. Not until the Lamb of God paid for our sins on the cross & since He was without sin, raised from the dead. He overcame the original curse of sin & death.

So?
Whenever I have asked God about my pets, I know that their little souls go some place special. And probably are going to be part of the new heaven & the new earth.
 
Where is your proof from the BIBLE that animals go to heaven?

Animals were created to live only a short while.

See my answer to a similar question here;
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AplOl3a2sC_gEmsAYVnUoEnsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20081112060035AAykSpq&show=7#profile-info-539Z2Cohaa
 
Animals do not have souls. They ARE souls.

People are also souls.

Neither of them are allowed to invade heaven.

"For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 3:19).

Who has gone to heaven?

Only the Son of man (John 3:13).
 
In the Old T. the bible says the life of the animal is in the blood.
The life of man is in the soul.

The soul contains five things:
Self - Consciousness (awareness of self)
Mentallity
Volition
Conscouness (norms/standards)
Emotion (beauty appreciater)

This doesn't mean there won't be animals in heaver per sey, but to say they die and go to heaven isn't supported. If i hold my dog in front of the mirror he has no awereness of himself.

He has spirit and personallity, but no soul.... Sometimes i wish we would end existence like they do.. but WE LIVE FOREVER whether in Hell or Heaven -- His rule, not mine!!

Squeeze your puppy anyway -- look at him and tell me he "evolved"...
 
Maybe the question isn't whether animals deserve it, but whether humans who go to heaven deserve the company of animals.
 
Animals don't have souls. When they die that's it.
As far as saying they have emotions and such, they don't humans give them their so called emotions to try to make them relate to us. But, they don't care.
 
no! animals don't go to Heaven if they did it would be stated so in the Bible.
If they do go, and if you go...are you gonna clean up after them?
 
I absolutely think that they do. They are forces of life just like us. If it comes down to physics: "energy can not be destroyed".
Their energy must go somewhere when they die, it does not simply disappear.
 
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