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What does your religion have to say about animals? Are animals equal to humans? Do they have souls? Can they go to heaven or reincarnate? What is their worth in your religion?
James,
I am just curious, what denomination of Christianity you are associated with?
What does your religion have to say about animals?
Are animals equal to humans?
Do they have souls?
Can they go to heaven or reincarnate?
What is their worth in your religion?
What does your religion have to say about animals? Are animals equal to humans? Do they have souls? Can they go to heaven or reincarnate? What is their worth in your religion?
No they are not equal to humans, but slowely they are upgrading towards human species.What does your religion have to say about animals? Are animals equal to humans?
Why not.Do they have souls?
They can only go to heaven after reincarnating as an Humanbeings.Can they go to heaven or reincarnate?
Part of nature.What is their worth in your religion?
The bible says animals can sin(Gen 3:1-5) and can be punished for those sins(Gen 3:14-15) and therefore have free will. Animals are subject to some of the same laws as humans such as observing the sabbath(Ex 20:10,Deut 5:14) to be fruitful and multiply(Gen 1:22) and other laws. Animal abuse is a sin(Num 22:22-34). Many animals were made from the ground(Gen 2:19) like man(Gen 2:7). Animals and man both have the same breath(Ecc 3:19) this is the breath of life which makes both animals and man a living soul(Gen 2:7).
Is this from the king james version?
In Mormonism, like everything else in its planet, every single living plant, creature and being was created spiritually in all perfection before the fall of Adam. Thus they were in the terrestrial sphere before they enveloped mortal characteristics into the telestial epoch. Along with the fall of Adam, the mortality of all other living species on Earth was made.
When Christ comes to redeem us in His Second Coming, the Earth will also be renewed and all the animals and plants along with it and be resurrected back into its perfected state -- and after the Millenium of this reign, it will be glorified into a celestial state of pure perfection.
"John learned that God glorified Himself by saving all that His hands had made, whether beasts, fowls, fishes or men; and He will glorify Himself with them. Says one, I cannot believe in the salvation of beasts. Any man who would tell you that this could not be, would tell you that the revelations are not true. John heard the words of the beasts giving glory to God, and understood them. God who made the beasts could understand every language spoken by them. The four beasts were four of the most noble animals that had filled the measure of their creation, and had been saved from other worlds, because they were perfect: they were like angels in their sphere. We are not told where they came from, and I do not know; but they were seen and heard by John praising and glorifying God."
-- Joseph Smith
I am also vegetarian, and that always colours my perceptions!
"If the question be asked for what Christ died? The answer is, first, He died for all of Adams race. Secondly, for all the animal and vegetable productions of the earth, as far as they were affected by the fall of man. The lion, the wolf, the leopard and the bear, and even the serpent, will finally feel and enjoy the effects of this great restoration, precisely in the same degree in which they were affected by the fall. Thirdly, Christ died for the earth itself, to redeem it from all the effects of the fall, that it might be cleansed from sin and have eternal life."
-- Parley Pratt