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Do pets go to heaven?

Do pets go to heaven?

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@divegeester said
Who here, atheist or otherwise, has told a child (or an adult) their recently deceased pet has gone to heaven?

Christians, is it true?

Atheists is it morally sound?
Telling a child that a deceased pet has gone to heaven is a way to console a child that it isn't really dead; it's just gone somewhere else.

Official doctrine (for grown-up Christians) is that only humans are made in God's image, only humans have souls, therefore only humans have an afterlife. All other animals die and stay dead.

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"And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

Luke 3:6 ESV

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even the sausage in the jambalaya i ate last night...

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@rookie54 said
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even the sausage in the jambalaya i ate last night...
'And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.'

Leviticus 11:7

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there were shrimp too...

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@rookie54 said
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there were shrimp too...
Then all is forgiven. Go and sin no more.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
Then all is forgiven. Go and sin no more.
damn...
i was looking for a shellfish angle...
help a brother out...

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@rookie54 said
damn...
i was looking for a shellfish angle...
help a brother out...
I use to go collecting shellfish.

Until I pulled a muscle.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke
enough dad jokes...
back to pets, or livestock, or untamed animals, or fish, or insects, or any other form of "life" we know (including plants, because i WANT my venus flytrap by my gold-sheeted bed in heaven) that will or will not be accompanying us to the promised land...
i think it would be one of the Lord's egregious oversights if He/She did not allow the entities that were endeared to us in life to be forcefully removed in the glorious afterlife...

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@rookie54 said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
enough dad jokes...
back to pets, or livestock, or untamed animals, or fish, or insects, or any other form of "life" we know (including plants, because i WANT my venus flytrap by my gold-sheeted bed in heaven) that will or will not be accompanying us to the promised land...
i think it would be one of the Lord's egregious oversights if He/She did not allow ...[text shortened]... s that were endeared to us in life to be forcefully removed in the glorious afterlife...

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do angels fornicate?

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@lemondrop said
the glorious afterlife
do angels fornicate?
i do not know...

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@rookie54 said
i do not know...
what kind of jokes do angels tell?

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
I use to go collecting shellfish.

Until I pulled a muscle.
Really? That is a surprise!

I can't picture you collecting shellfish.

-VR

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