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According to Baha'i faith do animals go to the spirit world after death?
Thanks for answer.
Thanks for answer.
I believe animals do have souls..
I think in one of the earlier copies of Some Answered Questions it says (paraphrasing) that man was always essentially man and then compares this to how from the beginning of embryonic life man changes form in the womb but is always man right from the beginning. Of course now the Universal House of Justice (UHJ) has come out and said that Abdul-Baha was not denying evolution. So I guess Baha'is have no choice but to assume that Abdul-Baha meant that at some point during human evolution humanity became fit for receipt of a soul.What about, say, Homo erectus - Wikipedia (related to us - of course if you go back far enough the same could be said about humans and trees) ?
What about, say, Homo erectus - Wikipedia (related to us - of course if you go back far enough the same could be said about humans and trees) ?
I think it is possible that they do, we just cannot know for certain.According to Baha'i faith do animals go to the spirit world after death?
I believe animals have a spirit but that is different from that of a human.
Do you know what the Christian Bible has to say about animals having an afterlife?
I do not agree with Abdu'l-Baha and I think he should stick with spiritual subjects and not delve into scientific subjects of which he was ignorant.
It is a Baha'i belief that animals have a spirit but not a rational soul like humans have.Thanks for answer.
I believe animals do have souls..
In what way is the spirit of animals different?
I do not know what the christian Bible say about it. But I know many christians believe animals do have a afterlife
In what way is the spirit of animals different?
I do not know what the christian Bible say about it. But I know many christians believe animals do have a afterlife
I do not agree with Abdu'l-Baha and I think he should stick with spiritual subjects and not delve into scientific subjects of which he was ignorant.
I know many Baha'is who believe that animals have an afterlife. One of them is a 6th generation Baha'i.
My naturopath who was trained just as well as any MD was appalled at what Abdu'l-Baha said and she said no matter can ever be extinguished.
Mt veterinarian who is a staunch Catholic believes that for certain animals have an afterlife.
Its an interesting point for God's alleged word to contain. God presumably knows what happens to the human and animal spirits.Ecclesiastes 3:21
New International Version
21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
What about:
Paris Talks 5.12 says:
“The superiority of man over the rest of the created world is seen again in this, that man has a soul in which the dwells the divine spirit; the souls of the lower creatures are inferior in their essence. ”
What is written in above says that animals have a soul. So maybe animals don’t have a rational soul because their soul is different from ours. Also the animals don’t have an immortal soul like a man but has an immortal soul like an animal?
Its an interesting point for God's alleged word to contain. God presumably knows what happens to the human and animal spirits.
I hope you realize there is no way you can know that anything that is in the Baha'i Writings about the soul or the afterlife is true or false. It is a belief, no more and no less, and as such it can never be proven true or false.I used to believe in reincarnation and an afterlife for animals when I became a Baha’i and eventually let go of those beliefs after accepting I had no way of knowing for certain whether these beliefs were true or false. So I accept what ‘Abdu’l-Bahá says on faith. It does make a certain amount of sense that they don’t but who really knows for certain?