Posted on 05/19/2010 1:31:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Actually the bible does mention creatures in heaven but there is no assurance that it is OUR specific pets that are there.
Rod Sterling thinks (as I do) that they have a place: Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sejMCBPQ7qg
Then go to Part 3.
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The bible does mention creatures (animals) honoring God in heaven but we don’t know which animals - whether or not they are our pets. SO, I figure if we don’t know if our pets will be there or not, why assume they won’t be? : )
My dad was a fireman, he responded to a fire where a woman had fallen asleep drunk on the couch while smoking a cigarette. She had a Great Dane, you could tell the dog tried to drag her out of the house, he finally laid down next to her and died with her.
A coroner says an Ohio woman suffered a heart attack
-—ok got it a woman suffer a heart attack. check
before collapsing in her driveway
-—ok she collapsed in her driveway check
while bringing in the pet Rottweiler that was destroyed
-—ok she's bringing in a dog that was destroyed (funeral i guess) check
after being blamed for mauling her to death.
-—ok she was bring in the dead dog that was destroyed for killing her? what?
I finally got it, but it took three reads. I had to decode it.
Do newspapers even have writers anymore? Or, have they all been layoff already?
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
So, this poor Creature of God known as Zeus, was trying to help the poor woman as best he knew how, and was dispatched from this physical world for his efforts. He does have a spiritual body, however, according to the Bible and the Apostle Paul, and so he was not Created for futility, and will not be subjected to vanity. None of God's Creation will be, according again to the Apostle Paul, in Romans.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
For 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 who hath subjected the same in hope,
Because 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.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
So, who are you to debate this? Take your quarrel with His Word up with Him.
If you believe dogs don’t have souls then you have never been close to a dog or close to God.
I don’t have the specific quotation in front of me but as I recall, Will Rogers once said (and this may be paraphrased): “I don’t know if dogs go to Heaven but I do know that I want to go where they go.”
Don’t pay any attention to him! he has some very strange ideas about what the bible says.
Oh wow. (sniff)
“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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