...but youll only get to see them if youre saved...... It disturbs me to say the least when I hear and read about christians or more likely the 'religious'. Who try to say that there is no evidence of animals having a soul.These people obviously dont know their bible and they underestimate God. These religious bone heads obviously cant see God for the artist he is. To discount the value of animals is to discount God and his creation.Are people really ignorant enough to believe that God made animals as zombies...that is what something without a soul is. How could animals move and think without a soul.They see man as being high and mighty and couldnt possible be anything like an animal.The christian view of animals is disgusting to say the least. Animals take care of their young better than alot of christians I have met. Dont get me wrong,I'm not bashing humans-just their arrogance and religiosity.To say that animals dont have a soul is calling God a liar. Animals are intelligent,thinking feeling creatures.The sick thing is ,the majority of the people who try to refute this are christians/pharicees .The majority of non-believers are intelligent enough to see the truth. __________________________________________________________________________ Job 12: 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 8 or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? 10 in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, AND the breath of all mankind. _______________________________________________________________________ Revelation 5:13 KJVAnd every creature which is in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying. Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. _______________________________________________________________________ Romans 8:21-22 KJVBecause the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. _______________________________________________________________________ Genesis 1:30 {mabe pastors need to go back to the begining and do some reading} 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, I have given every green herb for food' And it was so. __________________________________________________________________________ Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal...... _________________________________________________________________________ The Bible teaches that 'all flesh shall see the salvation of God' (Lk.3:6) and that 'all the living things in creation - everything that lives in the air, and on the ground, and under the ground, and in the sea' will praise Yahweh and the Lamb' (Rev.5:13). God's care and love extends to even the humble sparrow (Lk.12:6) and He has promised that He will restore all living things (Ac.3:21; Eph.1:10). Death as a whole will be annulled or abolished (1 Cor.15:25-26; 2 Tim.1:10) and the whole creation will be renewed (Rev.21:4-5). The resurrection will affect all celestial (heavenly) creatures and all terrestrial (earthly) ones (1 Cor.15:35-42). There will be a world-wide restoration of all life in its perfect frame - the curse pronounced by God after the Fall will be reversed - parasites will no longer live a parasitical lifestyle, carnivorous animals will become vegetarians, and all will be at peace. ________________________________________________________________________ ECCLESIASTES 3:18 I said in my heart, 'Concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are like animals”. ________________________________________________________________________ ECCLESIASTES 3:19-20 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. _________________________________________________________________________ PSALM 36:6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O LORD. ________________________________________________________________________ And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man; ALL in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died. (Genesis 7:21-22} _________________________________________________________________________ The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him that subjected it: Yet in hope that the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now.' (Romans 8:19-22).