,..go straight to Heaven after they die, no questions asked, because they don’t have the mental capacity to know and reject God? So if there is a Hell, does that mean it only has humans, and does it only have humans who were old enough and intelligent enough to knowingly reject God while alive while all the other humans who didn’t know and follow these strict rules that kill fun while alive all went to Heaven by default were little kids, babies, mentally challenged people, and people not exposed to Christianity like Tarzan? If that is correct, then this ability to knowingly reject God while alive is a terrible curse and an horrible gamble because killer animals, killer bees, mentally retarded people, and ignorant people like Tarzan all get to get away with it and get off easy because they weren’t given that terrible curse, instead, they get an automatic free pass into Heaven.
If that is correct, then not a single cockroach has to worry about Hell after they die no matter what they did or whatever antics they pulled in “Joe’s Apartment” in their short lifespan, and that means the only extra option humans have over that killer shark JAWS is to be tortured forever in Hell, whereas JAWS does whatever he or she wants while alive and goes to Heaven automatically, so that means God favors animals, even sharks like JAWS, over intelligent humans because he doesn’t give them this burden, and that’s why in Christanity, being human with the ability to choose is worse than being a racoon.
Intelligence is not what separates us from the animals.
Animals can be very loyal, and very behaved…but there is not a place in the Bible that says anything about a heart or soul
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Are you feeling OK this morning?
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Ok – animals do not have a soul. All the rest of your tirade is therefore, drivel.
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How do animals not have the mental capacity to reject “God”. Even if there is some so called God how are animals less then us? We seem to have evolved from monkeys and we share their traits so what makes us better then them so we have the ability to choose God or not. Dolphins have an even larger brain then us so maybe you should stop being so cocky and realize that we are not better then animals and if there was some God or whatever you believe in they would have the same choice they are completely oblivious to the whole world you know.
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heaven doesn’t exist.
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I am taken aback by your cowardly representation of an ignorant Tarzan. Let’s see you survive in the jungle like that … take those comments back.
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Well I believe in re-birth so the insect or animal will probably become a better life form in it’s next life and even better in next such as human then God will decide where it should go according to how good or bad it has been.
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Insects are animals
so don’t say animals and insects
and no
they don’t have souls
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Christianity doesn’t give the clear picture on the same.
According to Quran, the Holy Book of Muslims,
God has asked every creature about the responsibility and it is Human beings only who came forward. That is the reason they are being tested and that is the reason they are above all human creatures.
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No one knows for sure. But personally, if someone missed their animal that died and it would make them happy to see them again, I would think God would have them be there in heaven waiting for them.
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The first thing to understand is that God is Love, far superior to how we even trying can love! The God/Universal Love is just so PURE. Therefore, there is no judgment of good or bad, everything is loved equally. In our physical life, we experience most things, if we didn’t experience sadness, we wouldn’t understand happiness. If we never experienced cold, we wouldn’t know hot. To become complete we have to be everything. We are all made 100% of God, all things. That doesn’t mean we are 100% God. We are like pieces of an orange, we are 100% orange, but we are not The Orange.
The nearest description to Love is as Paul wrote in Corinthians 13. I used to think that was how I was supposed to Love, and of course, always did and still do, fall short. Then one magic day I realized that it was how God loves us.
To love sounds easy, but it isn’t. But each minute is a chance to try again.
Love is the ruler by which we can begin to understand God, and a ruler by which we can act or speak, if we slow down a little and think. Most of our Saints and Holy People are thus because it came naturally to them.
Enjoy life, enjoy all things bad and good.
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I think afterlife holds whatever you believe it does. Also! Humans are animals as well. You cannot deny that. Sure, we may be a bit more advanced, but we are animals. You might say, “Well, animals can’t talk!”
Cats are animals, right? They can communicate. And surely you’ve seen the simians that can speak sign language? Communication!
I think animals have an idea of afterlife. Whatever they individually believe afterlife holds, be it another life, darkness, or a heaven equivalent, they shall go there when they die.
But that’s just what I think.
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Om Sri Sairam
Bhagavan Sri Sathyasai Baba says,
“The wickedness of no man is incorrigible. By conscious effort, habits can be changed and character refined. By selfless service, renunciation, devotion and prayer, the old habits which bind man to earth can be discarded and new habits which take us along the Divine path can be instilled into our lives.”
– BABA
http://www.radiosai.org/pages/thought.asp
JAI SAI RAM
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Personally, I believe that God is love. I feel that any being which has learned the capacity of love (whether they have two or four legs, and no matter what their faith or lack thereof) will be there. My concept of “hell” is existence without love. It is our free choice to accept either one.
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Lot of merit, meat, in what you say! But, the ultimate in evolution through births and rebirths, seems to be human! So, all living beings end up being humans in their turn, at some point of time! Maybe, some transit halt arrangement for them exists in heaven somewhere!
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