Do animals have souls and or spirits?

[Earth Wind and Fire]

My Bible Study group knows that I refuse to pray for pets.
I understand that people love them but I also know that there are so many other things of higher importance.

Rob

Yes, grandchildren

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

If an animal possesses a soul, it is an animal soul, not human. We needn’t anthropomorphize.

Some animals do possess a soulish ability to relate to humans, just not on a human level.

I’ve seen dogs who would give up their lives to defend and protect their people. My mother raised me to respect, indeed honor all life. My Boxer dog provides more love and loyalty to my family that imaginable. God has created them for purposes to serve man and they do, so respect and honor them as creatures created by the almighty.

 

[Piper]

My Bible Study group knows that I refuse to pray for pets.
I understand that people love them but I also know that there are so many other things of higher importance.

Rob

Do people ask for prayer for pets? I have never heard that. I can imagine it is true, just like there are people who are convinced that Elvis is in heaven.

 

[Deacon]

Do people ask for prayer for pets? I have never heard that. I can imagine it is true, just like there are people who are convinced that Elvis is in heaven.

Elvis in heaven?, that's crazy... he was recently spotted out west.

Rob

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

I’ve seen dogs who would give up their lives to defend and protect their people. My mother raised me to respect, indeed honor all life. My Boxer dog provides more love and loyalty to my family that imaginable. God has created them for purposes to serve man and they do, so respect and honor them as creatures created by the almighty.

Proverbs 12:10
The righteous care for the needs of their animals,
but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Proverbs 12:10
The righteous care for the needs of their animals,
but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

Yea, I like animals more than most people.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Yea, I like animals more than most people.

Yeah, especially ones on this board.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Elvis in heaven?, that's crazy... he was recently spotted out west.

Rob

He had a colt peacemaker… he is a deputy in the west(maybe Wyoming or Montana).

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Yeah, especially ones on this board.

No comment

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Relieved Shelter Dog Thanks His Rescuers With Biggest Hugs

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

 

[JonC]

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Beautiful dog. Bet he's a Baptist (looks like a Baptist).

 

[JonC]

Yesterday. My Baptist dog riding in the Jeep.

 

[JonC]

Then again.....he insists on being in the front row.

Maybe he isn't Baptist.

 

[John of Japan]

Well there is also the first Hebrew reference. Genesis 1:20, נֶ֣פֶשׁ

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens. -- John Darby Translation.

Darby is really stretching it with "living souls." I don't think that's what the Hebrew really says.

 

[John of Japan]

Then again.....he insists on being in the front row.

Maybe he isn't Baptist.

Can he say "Amen, brother"?

 

[JonC]

Can he say "Amen, brother"?

Yes. Well....not in English... but as a translator you probably get that.

 

[John of Japan]

Elvis in heaven?, that's crazy... he was recently spotted out west.

Rob

I heard from Ray Stephens that he was seen in a UFO!

 

[John of Japan]

Yes. Well....not in English... but as a translator you probably get that.

Dog syntax can be complicated, but the language is scarce on semantic content.

 

[JonC]

Dog syntax can be complicated, but the language is scarce on semantic content.

I agree. Canine Theology is not as developed as other theological systems. For example, Canine Theology is uniquely void of an anthropologic dread of death (no casting of derision upon suppression of breath).

Yet for all we know we about the topic, we have too few Canine theologians within evangelical Christianity. Serious scholarship seems to be lacking.