A:<\/strong> The answer to this question [sort of] takes the same path as a previous one, on whether God abhors \u2018Cremation\u2019 \u201d as opposed to ceremonial burial?\u00a0 The Word of God doesn\u2019t speak for or against the soul of an animal, nor whether or not \u201cALL<\/strong>\u201d pets go to Heaven!<\/p>\n However, we do find throughout sacred Scripture that God breathed the \u201cbreath of life<\/strong>\u201d into all living creatures \u2013 small and great, with the major difference being that human beings (mankind) is made in the image and likeness of our creator God (Himself), as outlined in Genesis 1:26-27.\u00a0 God is a triune God:\u00a0 Father in creation, Son in redemption, and Holy Spirit operating in the church.\u00a0 And mankind is a triune being:\u00a0 consisting of three parts\u2014spirit, soul, and body.\u00a0\u00a0 The soul of mankind consists of the will, mind, emotions, and intellect; and the Bible talks in detail about the spirit of man, living on beyond the grave.\u00a0 Nowhere in Scripture does it talk about the spirit, soul and will of an animal.<\/p>\n In past years, when this question was very prevalent throughout Christendom, I remembered reading a Bible passage in one of the translations, about God and animals, and it stated, \u201cAt death, the spirit of animals return back to the mind of God.\u201d My thought became, I can understand the reasoning behind that interpretation, because animals\/pets wouldn\u2019t add any benefit nor serve any purpose, in the New Jerusalem\u2014the City of God, where the saints will reside at the end of this age.\u00a0 Animals add joy to our lives here on this physical earth;\u00a0 but, once we receive our resurrected glorified bodies, we won\u2019t need animals to add joy to our lives, because the word of God said, the glory of God will be our joy.<\/p>\n In conclusion, the most we can say is this: since animals were a part of God\u2019s original creative process, in the Book of Genesis, therein lies the possibility that animals will be a part of the new recreated earth outlined in Revelation 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Q: Dr. Mike, we simply love our pets (dog & cat)!\u00a0 What does the Bible say about our pets and Heaven? A: The answer to this question [sort of] takes the same path as a previous one, on whether God abhors \u2018Cremation\u2019 \u201d as opposed to ceremonial burial?\u00a0 The Word of God doesn\u2019t speak for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bibleqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachingministryofdrmike.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}