Do Animals Go To Heaven?

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kooldood said:
What I am seeking is proof for or against this possiblity.

The most common proof I have seen at CAF for this is that I cannot be perfectly happy without my pet, and if my pet doesn’t go to heaven, then heaven won’t really be heaven. Though I can relate to this, as I have a dearly loved dog myself, the proof doesn’t really work out because humans are even more important to me, and if a friend goes to hell, does that mean that heaven won’t be heaven? Or does it mean that the friend will be spared from hell in order to make me happy? What it looks like to me is that in heaven we will have a happiness that is completely different from anything we have experienced, which is at the same time perfect and, to an earthly person, unsatisfying.

An analogy from my high school textbook for the happiness of heaven is, when a young man and a young woman fall in love, they want to spend every moment together, and this brings them much happiness. Their little brothers and sisters don’t understand why they would rather be in a boring place, but together, rather than eating ice cream or going to the arcade. Yet, when they are old enough, they will understand. The same goes for heaven.

So unless you can disprove my theory, please do not come up with that. Thanks to all in advance! 👍
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This idea cannot be confirmed or denied.But all things are God’s creation’s,correct?.Animals feel emotions yet they lack rational souls as we do.now perhaps they can’t go to heaven as humans do but perhaps be kept safe.however somethings we humans cannot understand.Only the Almighty Father knows.
 
I posted a story somewhere on these boards about a little girl who was dieing and as she was leaving this world, called the name of one of her 2 cats that died in a fire a year before. I believe if God wants you to have your pets in heaven, you’ll have them and as Fr. Grochel said, it’s not something to argue about. No one has the right to say what God will or will not do. This isn’t an evil thing and most of these type of thoughts are way out of our human minds capability.

On a slightly different note, for people who are grieving a pet. Rabbi Gelman wrote a nice column on death of a pet and how you should awknowedge it as a deep loss and not be embarassed to grieve.

Maybe some others will like it too…thanking God for the pain is a slightly different concept, but one I understand.
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. In “Time-Life” there was an article where a girl with leukemia lost her 2 cats in a fire, later when she went out of remission, she was failing and not talking/communcating anymore. Like many patients, right before she died, she seemed alert and looked beyond her parents and said, “Smokey” (might not remember name correctly) one of her cats names and smiled.
I would like to believe being young and without any relatives gone, she saw her cats.
Sadly a year later, her parents were involved in a head-on collision and died about the aniversary of her death. The author also wanted to believe the whole family reunited in heaven.

Mother Angelica’s mom had a very similar experience before she died, looking beyond her to what Mother thought was her deceased Dad, making peace with him before she died.
There are many mysteries in life, way beyond our understanding. If it gives peace to someone to beleive they may see their pets, so be it. God knows best and either way they wont care later
 
Now…I know that some of you know better than the apologists on CAF…which may be good reason for me to end my financial support of CAF and perhaps contribute that money to those of you that are better informed. (or perhaps gnostic) 🙂
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                                                                            Animals have a material soul that ceases to exist when they die. Humans have a spiritual soul that continues to exist after death. But does this mean that animals will not be present in the afterlife? That is a question to which we do not have an answer. There does however seem to be hints that God will restore the universe at the end of time:

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                The visible universe, then, is itself destined to be transformed, "so that the world itself, restored to its original state, facing no further obstacles, should be at the service of the just," sharing their glorification in the risen Jesus Christ ([**CCC 1047**](http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1047.htm)).
As animals are part of the “visible universe,” it seems possible that they too might share “their glorification in the risen Jesus Christ.” It might be possible that God might also re-create those animals who have been a pleasure and comfort to man in his earthly journey. We don’t know in this life, but it is something for which we can hope.

Explain to your children that heaven will have all that is needed for our perfect happiness. If they need their pet with them in heaven in order to be perfectly happy, their pet will be there. As adults we realize that God alone suffices for perfect happiness; but we also know that God, in his great love for us, gives us more than our mere necessities and that his love is reflected to us in his creation. It may be that our animal friends’ presence in the next life will be God’s gift to us.
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jmcrae said:
And without an immortal soul, there is no means of transmission to get them into Heaven.
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Surly, you aren’t suggesting that God doesn’t have the means. God either is the creator of ALL…or He isn’t…What He decides to create…will be.

The fact remains: You, nor I, knows what God has planned in His fullness of Heaven
 
kimmielittle said:
Surly, you aren’t suggesting that God doesn’t have the means.
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it is God who didn’t provide the means, in the case of the animals. It is God’s choice already, that they don’t go to Heaven. God doesn’t want the animals to go to Heaven. If He did, then He would have provided a means for them to get there - an immortal soul. He did not.
God either is the creator of ALL…or He isn’t…What He decides to create…will be.
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Right. And what He provides with no means to exist, will not exist.
 
jmcrae said:
it is God who didn’t provide the means, in the case of the animals. It is God’s choice already, that they don’t go to Heaven. God doesn’t want the animals to go to Heaven. If He did, then He would have provided a means for them to get there - an immortal soul. He did not.

Right. And what He provides with no means to exist, will not exist.
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Oh oh! Here we go again. Gnosticism. :eek:
 
spn82756 said:
Oh oh! Here we go again. Gnosticism. :eek:
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:rolleyes: Not at all. *Revelation. *

God has revealed that animals do not have immortal souls. God has revealed that only those with immortal souls have the power to attain to Heaven. No immortal soul = don’t go to Heaven.

(Are you expecting your favourite pocket rock or your teddy bear to also go to Heaven with you? Because they have just as much chance of doing so as an animal does.)
 
spn82756 said:
Now…I know that some of you know better than the apologists on CAF…which may be good reason for me to end my financial support of CAF and perhaps contribute that money to those of you that are better informed. (or perhaps gnostic) 🙂
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             Hiyas:)
Please don’t stop supporting CAF

Kids can’t be supporters cause we don’t have credit cards
 
jmcrae said:
:rolleyes: Not at all. *Revelation. *

God has revealed that animals do not have immortal souls. God has revealed that only those with immortal souls have the power to attain to Heaven. No immortal soul = don’t go to Heaven.
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Where, please

We wouldn’t’ be having this debate if God revealed that animals might not be in Heaven
 
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