Where do the animals go after they die?

[Anonymous]

For those of you that believe that Heaven exists, do you believe that animals can also enter God’s Kingdom or do they have an eternal paradise of their own?

Animals do not have souls. It is the end of the line for them when they die.

Yes, they are also welcome in the same Heaven deserving human souls go to.

They have their own eternal paradise.

[Anonymous]

Animals do not have souls, neither do humans.

The word “soul” in the Bible is a translation of the Hebrew word neʹphesh and the Greek word psy·kheʹ. The Hebrew word literally means “a creature that breathes,” and the Greek word means “a living being.”

So the soul is the entire creature, not something inside that survives the death of the body.

When God created the first man, Adam, the Bible says that “man became a living soul.” Adam was not given a soul​—he became a living soul, or person.

Also, the soul is not immortal, it dies. Dozens of Bible verses refer to the soul as being mortal. After a person dies, the literal term “dead soul” is used for the corpse in some Bible verses.

Christian denominations that believe in an immortal soul get this teaching, not from the Bible, but from ancient Greek philosophy.

The Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Biblical references to the soul are related to the concept of breath and establish no distinction between the ethereal soul and the corporeal body. Christian concepts of a body-soul dichotomy originated with the ancient Greeks.”

[Iron_Man]

There’s a good chance I was reading something about that lately

[Iron_Man]

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[DubiousIntentions]

There is nothing in the Bible that indicates that animals have souls. God killed an animal to make clothes for Adam and Eve and used certain animals for blood sacrifices in the Bible, as well as food to sustain Noah and his family in the Ark. It seems to say that they don't have souls, so your pets will probably not be there.

[standardguy]

Nobody HAS souls. We ARE a living soul as Genesis 2:7 says: (KJV) 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.

[jshm2]

Animals are just animals, kiddo. Think of them as megafauna

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Into the ground to never exist again. Animals won't resurrect back to life.

[strateguy632]

pet heaven