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If when I die and get to the Pearly Gates there is a sign that says "NO DOGS ALLOWED" - I'll say "No Thanks" - beacuse wherever thay don't allow dogs I don't want to be.
If there was a heaven and I managed to get in would I have to worry about spending eternity being woken up in the middle of the night by a barking dog with eternal life?
Hey let's go further than that. The Bible shows that all moving and creeping things on the Earth are living souls. Let's just take one small creature as an example. Mosquitos. Every year there must be 10 Godzillion of them all around the earth. Now can you imagine 10 Godzillion times 10s of thousands of years living in heaven ?
I have read on here several things that we'd like to take to Heaven. As humans, of course it is natural to desire our Earthly comforts...that just helps me to understand the scriptures at Psalms 115:16, Psalms 37:29, even the "Lord's Prayer" at Matt 6:9,10 "...Let your will take place in Heaven, also upon the Earth."
You have to think if people have a soul and a person is nothing more than an animal than other animals would also have souls.
I think what everyone wants to call a soul is nothing more than the energy within our bodies, and has nothing to do with a god, or any place we will go after we are dead.
Ok, I've heard this before that animals do not have souls (according to Christianity anyway). But why is this?
Does sentience have anything to do with it?
Sometimes it feels like a dog really is man's best friend when they come lick your face after you've had a rough day. They do seem to react to moods and also it seems like they have the ability to "sense" bad people. Or am I reading too much into it?
I guess it depends on your definition of soul. If you are talking about the eternal life force, then certainly all living creatures have it. According to many belief systems this "soul" as you all it transmigrates from one body to the next and is not limited to the human animal.
Anyone who has had a close relationship with a pet knows in their heart that animals are highly intelligent and intuitive. They are moody, they communicate with each other and with ourselve. They have a sense of humor, and understand sadness and fear.
Hey let's go further than that. The Bible shows that all moving and creeping things on the Earth are living souls. Let's just take one small creature as an example. Mosquitos. Every year there must be 10 Godzillion of them all around the earth. Now can you imagine 10 Godzillion times 10s of thousands of years living in heaven ?
Maybe a Hindu can explain this to us
I have no idea of bugs in the afterlife.
But, if you think of it, no physical body means food will not be essential,
which means there is no reason to kill,
which means, if there are bugs they would not be pesky.
I think that souls attain a ultimate degree of development and then are no longer part of the earth. At that time I think they become one with the universe and are no longer incarnated in human or animal form.
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