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FAQ # 35

QUESTION  35 :  Do Animals go to Heaven?

God made animals. Genesis 1:20-25 describes creatures of the water, air, and land.

God saved animals. Genesis 6:20 says they were "to be kept alive" in the ark during the flood.

God cares about animals. Jonah 4:11 shows this care. "But Ninevah has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well.

Should I not be concerned about that great city?"

Man should care. Proverbs 27:23 "Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds..."

God wants animals unharmed. Isaiah 65:25 declares "The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox...They will neither harm nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord."

Yet, only man is made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26) with the power of free choice (Joshua 24:15). Thus Biblically, man is the only part of creation to which salvation can be offered to be accepted or rejected.

{Source: Taken from bibleinfo website}

Answer Note: 1. "Man" and "Image of God" suggests another intelligent being than God, so what is saved are intelligent beings created by God with the "inherent" likeness of God, for humans are categories as animals too. Also, not artificial intelligence of an "image of God;" usually without a soul. Salvation is to those intelligent beings created by God with his image, lost it through falleness and regains it through salvation (Isa 45:9-12).

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