SO....STILL DO NOT BELIEVE ANIMALS GO TO HEAVEN???
by Friar Jeffrie Wallace Osm on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 3:38am ·
Ok...so, got a little tired of all the militants attacking me for my 'praying for the soulless' (as they put it)...so I decided to sit down in my few free moments from my duties to sort of...answer....the unsaid question that I KNOW people still have in their minds...."Do animals have a soul, and can they go to heaven?"
Well...lets look at the KNOWN AND PROVEN evidence that man AND ANIMAL have a soul.....because according to THEM, you have to have a soul, and be blessed by God to enter heaven....
As we all know from the Book of Genesis 1:20-25 God created ALL life...from the fish in the sea, to the birds of the air, to the animals and beasts of the land...but heres the part you SHOULD read into a little closer....lets begin:
"And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.22GOD BLESSED THEM and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good."...did you catch it???
...there....in verse 22..... GOD BLESSED THEM... THAT alone should have given you the shivers.....
God BLESSED them...hence, HE APPROVES OF THEM AND GIVES THEM THE DIVINE BREATH OF LIFE....The same one spoken of in Genesis 2:7..."Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the BREATH OF LIFE into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person."
So, by logical conclusion, if the Breath of Life that God breathed into man, is the SAME ONE He breathed into animals...then hence THEY ALSO HAVE A SOUL......not just "life"...but individuality, thoughts, emotions.....LIFE.
Need further proof??? Ok....
Genesis 6:17 "I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish."
Yes, the story of Noah...so, let me ask you this...if God is OMNIPOTENT (yes, a statement of fact, NOT a question for debate) and can create things at His whim...why not wipe out ALL life except for Noah and his family and just "start again"??? He could have...He could have just said "Noah, get in a boat, I am going to wipe out everything EXCEPT MANKIND"...but He didnt...He SPECIFICALLY SAYS in Genesis 6:18-20 the REASON WHY
"But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive."
HE ESTABLISHED A COVENANT....not JUST with man...but with ANIMALS AS WELL...the Covenant of Life!
"But Friar", you say, "ALL of that is DEBATABLE".....yes, true...theologians have argued that to a dead standstill for CENTURIES....but you want the HARD facts, right? OK.....try this on for size.....Ecclesiastes 3:18-21
"I also thought, “As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. 20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
OOPS!!! Just blew YOUR argument out the window, didn't I....sorry.....(LOL)
So, you may argue that this "Breath" only meant they came to life...right??.. WRONG. The Divine Breath of Life from God GIVES LIFE, and therefore GIVES A SOUL.... Ezekiel 37:1-10 give us an example of this....
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The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “O Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
4Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
7So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
Still not convinced??? Ok, then hold onto your hats.....
Verse 14 of THAT SAME CHAPTER says "I will put my Spirit into you, and you will LIVE".......So, if it is from GOD, and is "The Breath of Life"...then it holds true that it ALSO is the bestower of a SOUL WORTHY OF ENTERING HEAVEN, as YOUR argument is that only "those with a soul can enter Heaven".....
So, you say "That is not what OUR Church says"....so, you want YOUR Church's take on it?? Fine.....
Matthew 18:18 states CLEARLY: "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.".....so, whatever THE CHURCH says is true, will be true in HEAVEN as well...right???
Ok....well then...I see your point.....allow me to RETORT......"
“The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren.” "All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.”
~ Pope John Paul II~ (now BLESSED John Paul)
AND WAS IT NOT JESUS WHO COMMANDED IN MARK 16:15 "And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
He did not say "only to man" or "only to those who are human", or "only those the Church says to preach the Gospel to"........HE SAID "TO EVERY CREATURE".....
So, let me see if I got this straight....and clear.....you have the BIBLICAL proof, and the CHURCH'S proof that God BLESSED the animals, (and as we all know, God BLESSES ONLY THAT WHICH HE LOVES)....you have the LOGICAL proof they have a soul....you have the UNDENIABLE BIBLICAL proof that we are NO DIFFERENT than the animals.....
Why fight against that which has been ESTABLISHED BY GOD???
Come on, jump onto the side that will get "The Big 'W'" (WIN....for those who do not understand sports jargon)
WE ARE BOUND, THE SAME AS ANIMALS, TO THE SAME FATE AND REWARD PROMISED TO US BY GOD.....so, let's just end this embarrassing fiasco for you by saying this.....
God is LOVE, not hatred....God is KIND, not prejudiced....God is EVERYWHERE, and in ALL things...not just in ONE thing....
Stay BLESSED in the Light, and Love of OUR Creator.....
Rev. Friar, J.L. Wallace, Order of Saint Michael- Friars Mendicant...
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