Believers in Christ what say you?

Hawt Sauce: My question is do you believe animals go to heaven. I didn't say the bible says they do or I wouldn't be asking. I said the bible says they have a spirit and their bodies return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 says: As for men, God tests them so that they may see they are like the animals. 19: Man'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, all go to the same place; all come from dust and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of the man rises and if the spirit of the animal goes down to the earth.

Well the bible says to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord and our bodies return to dust and our spirits rise to be with Jesus if we die in Christ so this says who knows if a mans spirit rises..the scriptures tell us they do. Who knows if an animals spirit goes down to the earth tells us it rises also.

Matthew: The bible is not clueless on where mans spirit goes nor is it clueless on where animals spirits go. I just gave the scripture in Ecclessiastes which states that both man and animals spirits return to God and both their bodies return to dust from which they were made. That to me is not clueless. We know where mans spirit goes: To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (if they die in Christ).

I believe that animals go to heaven. People say they don't have souls..Jesus never said Father, into your hands I commend my soul. He said Spirit.

Thanks people for your input.