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Blessing of the animals worship service

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Alive in Christ

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Michael...

Prior to my conversion i was a Catholic. The Catholics have pet blessing services from time to time.

I wish we..(Baptists/Evangelicals)..would have them.

Its a nice thing to do, and there is good scriptural support regarding animals in heaven.
 
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Michael Wrenn

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Alive in Christ said:
Michael...

Prior to my conversion i was a Catholic. The Catholics have pet blessing services from time to time.

I wish we..(Baptists/Evangelicals)..would have them.

Its a nice thing to do, and there is good scriptural support regarding animals in heaven.
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I agree.

Anglicans have these around the first part of October, as part of the commemoration of Francis of Assisi.
 
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OldRegular

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Alive in Christ said:
Michael...

Prior to my conversion i was a Catholic. The Catholics have pet blessing services from time to time.

I wish we..(Baptists/Evangelicals)..would have them.

Its a nice thing to do, and there is good scriptural support regarding animals in heaven.
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Could you enlighten us as to Scripture and those animals in heaven?
 
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Alive in Christ

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Could you enlighten us as to Scripture and those animals in heaven
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Gladly

Both of these are from the scriptures..

Jesus told us that in heaven the wolf and lamb will lie together. (no predatory animals killing the weaker ones)


Also...Christ riding a horse.
 
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Alive in Christ

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In adition to the evidence I have given, here is even more, from CRI (Christian Reserch Institute)

Scripture does not conclusively tell us whether our pets will make it to heaven. However, the Bible does provide us with some significant clues regarding whether or not animals will inhabit the new heaven and the new earth.

First, animals populated the garden of Eden. Thus, there is a precedent for believing that animals will populate Eden Restored as well. Animals are among God’s most creative creations. Thus, it would seem incredible that he would banish such wonders in heaven.

Furthermore, while we cannot say for certain that the pets we enjoy today will be “resurrected” in eternity, I am not willing to preclude the possibility. Some of the keenest thinkers from C. S. Lewis to Peter Kreeft are not only convinced that animals in general but that pets in particular will be restored in the resurrection. If God resurrected our pets, it would be in total keeping with his overwhelming grace and goodness.

Finally, the Scriptures from first to last suggest that animals have souls. Both Moses in Genesis and John in Revelation communicate that the Creator endowed animals with souls. In the original languages of Genesis 1:20 and Revelation 8:9, nephesh and psyche respectively refer to the essence of life or soul. Not until Descartes and Hobbes and the Enlightenment did people think otherwise about animals. However, because the soul of an animal is qualitatively different from the soul of a human there is reasonable doubt that it can survive the death of its body. One thing is certain: Scripture provides us with sufficient precedence for believing that animals will inhabit the new heaven and new earth. In the words of Isaiah: “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them” (Isaiah 11:6)
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Alive in Christ

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More on animals in heaven...



The Bible indicates that animals will exist after His return and the beginning of the Kingdom as Isaiah 11:6-9 reads, “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the cobra’s den, the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”

Here is the Word of God declaring that animals will still exist in the future, after Christ’s reign begins. Ecclesiastes mentions that there is a “spirit” in man but also in animals in (3:19, 21) but this does not necessarily mean that it is an eternal spirit.

Revelation 19:11-14 indicates, for example, that Jesus returns to the earth with His army of saints on white horses, “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.”
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Rev Mitchell...

What I have given is clearly sufficiant.

You are free to disbelieve Gods scriptures if you want to..
 
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Revmitchell

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The Isaiah passage is animals on earth not in heaven. The Revelation passage is figurative language used to describe a literal event. Do you have anything that places animals in heaven?
 
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Jerome

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First Baptist Augusta is the birthplace of your Southern Baptist Convention. It hosted the first meeting in 1845.
 
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Michael Wrenn

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Revmitchell said:
Worshiping the creation rather than the creator. Sad
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What is sad is your misrepresentation of the truth. So, you're saying that blessing animals is the same as worshiping them. When you bless the food you eat, are you worshiping that?

What part of Romans 8:18-23 do you not believe?
 
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