Comments on: All dogs do not go to heaven but most dogs have some heaven in them. Sasha

By: virginia anne

virginia anne — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:06:35 +0000

I am sorry about your loss of a dear friend. I have loved God's goodness in letting us enjoy his creatures. I miss each of my babies and remember them dearly.

By: David

David — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:03:26 +0000

I'm truly sorry for the loss of your companion Father for as you know, I have always loved my little furry, four legged chainsaws. They provide comfort during heartache, for as you said, "they know". They entertain us with their antics and have a boundless enthusiasm for life. Their love is as unconditional as they are honest and loyal.
Dogs don't care about most of the things that consume people's lives, expensive cars and homes or the size of the bank account, big or small. They will sacrifice their own lives protecting their humans and most of all, they just want to be with us because that's what makes them happy…. and that's what makes them so very special.
They are a gift from God and if we pay attention, we might actually learn something of how to be, from the one who loves us most purely, this side of Heaven.
In Christ,
David

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:12:41 +0000

I think animals are often angels in disguise. No, I don't mean angels as in the bodiless hosts–but 'messengers of God' sent to help, comfort and teach us. I have learned many important things from my furry 'babies'..

I have always said that having to say good-bye to a beloved pet was like paying at the end for the privilege of having had them in my life—and as hard as it always was, I've always felt like I got a bargain.

By: Justina

Justina — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:59:47 +0000

I forgot to add, heaven is called paradise, as is the new heavens and the new earth after the general resurrection of the dead. Paradise means garden. What kind of garden has no plants, and even butterflies? If plants then animals.

By: Justinaq

Justinaq — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:58:38 +0000

Father bless, one doesn't have to be New Age to figure animals continue existing. First off, no one is "eternal" that means without beginning and without end, except God. "immortal" is sometimes used to mean this in referring to God, and "death" can be anything from the dropping off of the body, the denser part of the soul, from the soul, leaving the soul operating in a truncated, diminished condition, to being alive and kicking but cut off from God.
given that Heaven is called paradise, which means garden, and a garden is going to have plants, flowers and butterflies, what kind of a barren mess of a garden wouldn't, it would have animals also.
Genesis says Adam became a living soul when the breath of life was breathed into him, and also says that all with the breath of life in them died in the Flood, specifying animals among them. There is no clear distinction made. The desperate effort to interpret our being made in God's image as strictly spiritual seems like a fleshless pagan gnostic infection idea. We seem, as a species, to unite in us features physical and mental that refer back to God in ways no other animal does. And our role was to be a superintendant over nature under God.