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Do you think that, in eternity, we will be able to have our earthly pets?
August 4, 2023 | Jonty30

Posted on 08/04/2023 9:28:56 PM PDT by Jonty30

My cat died today. She was 20. She was a beautiful golden brown tabby. She was very good cat to get along with. She loved her family. Yes, I'm saddened, but she lived a pretty good life.

God honoured me by allowing her to pass on before I brought her to the vet for euthanization. The vet told me that the lack of corneal activity probably indicated that she only operating autonomously, with her heart and lungs and bodily functions. But that was all that was left of her.

So, while we will probably have pets in heaven and eternity because that is our nature, to want to have pets. Will God allow the pets we loved to join us in eternity or will we have to satisfy ourselves with new pets only?


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1 posted on 08/04/2023 9:28:56 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30

I certainly hope so. If not I will have to put off dying. I prefer the company of my pets over most people.


2 posted on 08/04/2023 9:32:07 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Jonty30

I believe we will see our pets again, when God restores heaven and earth to what it was before the fall.


3 posted on 08/04/2023 9:33:19 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Jonty30

Absolutely.

https://www.dneoca.org/articles/dogs.html


4 posted on 08/04/2023 9:33:43 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas)
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To: Jonty30

I’m gonna have a herd of animals up yonder

Sorry for your loss.

Lost my bowhunt kitty last month. I would lock up the dogs lest they follow me yet Oksana would follow and up the tree she went with me. Good times. She was 17.


5 posted on 08/04/2023 9:35:19 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: Jonty30
I heard a preacher once say that whatever we need to be happy in heaven, God will provide. Therefore any pets who are gone will show up again if it is necessary our happiness. There can be no sorrow in heaven.

6 posted on 08/04/2023 9:35:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Jonty30

Our Heavenly Father will satisfy us Beyond
Our Wildest Dreams.
Your Fur Baby should be Waiting.
Don’t forget Cat Toys!


7 posted on 08/04/2023 9:39:00 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Jonty30

I think it was Mark Twain that said “Heaven is based on grace, If it was based on merit, your dog would go and you wouldn’t.”


8 posted on 08/04/2023 9:39:24 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Jonty30

Yes.

Sorry for your loss.


9 posted on 08/04/2023 9:52:28 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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God created animals and populated the earth with them before He created mankind.

I expect that there will be animals in heaven since Isaiah says this .......

Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.

The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

10 posted on 08/04/2023 9:52:55 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Thank you. I’ve been tearing up quite a bit over it. She really loved her family, as much as cats can love their families.


11 posted on 08/04/2023 9:53:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I have heard that too. We will have what we need to be fulfilled. As I age, I accept the idea of Heaven as a state of mind or spirit.

**I have heard views from Animal Psychics, or those who claim to have skills of Telepathy; people who claim that they can pick up on an animals thoughts or perceive events that the animal has experienced. The animals ‘listened to’ were all domestic pets. Most of these people say the majority of animals are very accepting of their death. They may be worried about their owners getting sick, but the animals rarely see their own deaths as something scary.


12 posted on 08/04/2023 9:54:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: metmom

Animals, yes. I think we will even have pets, conceptually speaking. It’s just a question of the pets that we knew whether we will get them back or not.

I have about 7 I would love, in varying order. This cat is number one on the list, if I was limited in the pets that I was allowed to have back.


13 posted on 08/04/2023 9:54:48 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Jonty30

Balaam’s Ass can
see angels.


14 posted on 08/04/2023 9:56:43 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Jonty30

My condolences.

I’m a cat guy too.

As to your question, I’m not a religious scholar by any means, but it seems like to me, if you earn your way into a ‘Heaven’ then you should be allowed to have any pet you want, as long as they didn’t earn their own way into a ‘hell’.


15 posted on 08/04/2023 9:57:37 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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I hope not.

My cats deserve to burn in hell for eternity.

16 posted on 08/04/2023 9:58:07 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Drew68

You would have loved my Bronze. Everybody did.


17 posted on 08/04/2023 10:02:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Jonty30

Revelation 22 KJV:

14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.


18 posted on 08/04/2023 10:04:19 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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You would have loved my Bronze. Everybody did.

I shouldn't be so flippant. I'm sorry for your loss.

I just traveled across the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast in a minivan with a wife, four kids, and two cats and I was at my wits end with those beasts.

They're actually good cats. And the wife and kids love them so I can't drown them in the bathtub.

19 posted on 08/04/2023 10:05:46 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Drew68

Dont worry, I took itbwell.
She really was a nice cat, if she trusted you.


20 posted on 08/04/2023 10:08:30 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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