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Do animals apart from human beings go to Heaven or Hell?

Does God control whether or not animals in the animal kingdom will be sent to Hell or to heaven after they die as well? I mean, humans are actually animals. We just put ourselves above other creatures because we have a more complicated brain system or whatever which allows us to do so. What if a cat sins but has no idea that it has sinned and finds itself in hell, confused, lost and hurt. Who controls those form of life?

Update:

@ TheGreatSeeker: Your ability to mate and to reproduce is animal. It is natural among all mammals. That is what you were born to do (along with other things and blah blah) and it is also the cause of your birth. Your astonishing amount of arrogance has been born purely from your own vanity. Good day to you, sir.

Update 2:

Okay people, I don't care what God has to say about humans and whether or not you believe we are animals. Where in the Bible does God show his plans for creatures such as dogs, birds, giraffe and so on.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Humans who have ability to differientiate Good and Bad only will be sent to Heaven or Hell.

    Animals and plants live their life what they have teached to be like.

    Source(s): Islam
  • 10 years ago

    No. Animals have no knowledege of God. They were not made that way. God made both animals and humans to live on earth. However, he made man in his image with the capacity to make choices, to reason, and to obey and worship him. Humans were made to live forever. If Adam and Eve had not rebelled they would still be alive today with the earth populated with perfect happy people living forever. Genesis 1:28. That's why Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that God has set "eternity into the hearts" of mankind. That was God's purpose. That is still God's purpose.

    When humans die they return to dust .—to nonexistence— just as animals do. The Bible says: “As the [beast] dies, so the [man] dies; and they all have but one spirit . . . All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust.” (Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20)

    The Bible also says, “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all - - - - - .” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) When a person dies, “he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:4.

    So we cease to exist when we die. But that does not mean that everything is finished. Those who die are in God's perfect memory . He will make them live again. Jesus said: “The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.”—John 5:28, 29.

    And Acts 24:15 says, “- - - there is going to be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous”. So even those who did bad things because they had not come to know the righteous standards of God will be brought back to life to be given that opportunity. What a just and merciful God!

    According to the Bible the resurrection will begin very soon. Bible prophecy indicates that in 1914 this world entered into its “last days.” (2 Timothy 3:1) In what many call ‘the end of the world,’ God will very shortly remove wickedness and establish a new world under heavenly rulership.—Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21; Revelation 16:14.

    The result will be a paradise covering the whole earth and inhabited by those who have sincerely tried to serve God. Wicked people will not burn in hellfire, but they will have no place in the coming Paradise. At Psalm 37:10, 11, 29 we read: “The wicked one will be no more; and you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. - - - The righteous themselves will possess the earth and they will reside forever upon it”

    That is God’s promise. The Bible says: “I heard a loud voice from the throne say: ‘Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.’”—Revelation 21:3, 4. God’s word always comes true. (Isaiah 55:11)

  • Humans are not animals, they are creatures technically. Animals and insects are creatures as well. But God has shown that man is made in His image, and that we are his children. It is evident in Genesis 1, 2, and 3 that God cares about us, or He would not create a suitable environment with food for us. The animals are God's creation, so He also cares about them, providing food for them. This is to take care of us, His children. We have souls given by God, and souls either go to God's heaven or satan's hell. Animals, as God's creation, do not have souls. When sin is destroyed after Jesus comes back the second time, God's creation will return to God. Sin will return to hell.

  • Tomo
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    No - given that neither heaven or hell exist other than in the minds of the deluded.

    @ Darrin and others "Humans are NOT animals" - - - Can I suggest a dictionary, followed by a lesson in basic taxonomy.

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  • Darrin
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Of course God controls what and who gets into heaven. But as far as animals in heaven, we really dont know if they will be there or not.

    We do know that they are not moral beings and obviously not held to the moral standard of God and certainly dont have sin nor the need of forgiveness for sin..........>

    Humans are NOT animals. We are created higher than the animals. We were created in the image of God. That is calling God an animal. We have a sense of morality and justice..........>

  • 10 years ago

    They go were humans go 6 feet under

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    No. Animals do not go to hell or heaven.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    there is nothing animal about me, I am godly...or God will come to me one day anyway in this life and make me truly Godly. But there is nothing animal about me. Find ONE ANIMAL trait I have. i challenge you.

    We are created in the image of God, not a 4 legged animal and if you know my teaching of the flesh and lust you would agree, for the sexual wisdom I have is not animal.

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    HENCE I SAID IF YOU KNOW MY TEACHING OF THE FLESH. WHICH YOU DO NOT. The christians of this world are all animal, as well as this world. They walk without heaven in each others arms for all they know is lust of the flesh. We are called to seek Gods kingdom FIRST, as I am a virgin seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness to be added unto me. We are called to be a Godly race and take this beast wisdom of sex and have his ways added unto us a Godly way, or a way he created for man and woman. And he was not looking at a bunch dogs shouting OHH MY IMAGE. There is another way, you only know lust of the flesh, as do the rest of the christains. I know the fathers ways, and his ways are nothing like the animals. The hetrosexual wisdom man has is all over the place. When Adam and Eve partook of the tree of good and evil they became like animals ashamed, as it is writtne they were not ashamed before the tree. Man became like solomon that is why our heterosexual wisdom can desire many woman, most christians marry only one, but they do devoice and jump on another. Gods ways are suppose to be monogmy minded, just Adam and Eve. But the world is so lost in the flesh and the lust of it, God had put marriage there to bless the lust of the christians and the world, and said marry your lust or burn. But he also says to seek out the heavenly kingdom and his righteousness to be added unto you. THAT IS THE RIDDLE as no christian walks with heaven with marriage, as all are cursed to be like the angels. YOU ARE A BEAST, not me. Before you judge know who I am and I am not breeding like the rest of you animals as I am a virigin waiting. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH, that is just a start and yes I know my mother and father created me in lust, does not mean I am animal. They are not me. My ways are not their ways, they are lost going their own way, while my eyes are on the heavenly kingdom. Some days I get angry at God for using lust to create me....but what can you do???

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    They rot in the ground, like the rest of us.

  • 10 years ago

    Let's see what they pull out of the bible (or their butts) for this.

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