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Do Animals Go To Heaven? Animals Have Both A Soul and A Spirit
Do Animals Go To Heaven? Animals Have Both A Soul and A Spirit
"For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other;
indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. All
go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust. Who knows that the breath [spirit]
of man ascends upward and the breath [spirit] of the beast descends downward to the earth?"
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
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God, Man, and Animals have spirits and souls
spirit/ruwach soul/nephesh
God Isa 42:1 Isa 42:1; Isa 1 :14; Lev 26:11; Jer 5:9,29;9:9;
Zec 11:8; Job 23:13
Man Gen 2:7; 1 Thess 5:23 Gen 2:7; 1 Thess 5:23
Animals Gen 6:17; Job 12:7–10 Gen 1:20–21,24,30; 9:9-10; Job 12:7–10
Plants Scripture is silent on whether plants have spirits or souls. However, they
do have DNA, are living cells, and breath once every 24 hours. For 12
hours plants inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, then for 12 hours
they inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Humans breath 14 times
per minute and plants breath 1 time in 24 hours. It might be inferred that
plants also have spirits and souls.
Conclusion:
1. Will Spot be in heaven? No idea, the bible is silent on the matter.
2. Animals have both spirits and souls like man.
3. They also have personality, freewill and share every emotion that humans experience including love, hate,
jealousy, compliance, obedience, rebellion, insecurity, contentment, affection, loyalty, anger, playfulness,
independence, dependence, selfishness, sharing etc.
4. I won't be surprised if spot, my pet goose, who thinks he is a duck, has pure white chicken named stripe
as his brother and has me as his mommy, greets me with a welcoming lick when I die!
Steve Rudd
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