Do Animals Have Souls Got Questions

Paradise is open to all of Gods creatures In 1990 Pope John Paul II said animals have souls but then Pope Benedict gave a 2008 sermon that seemed to say the opposite.

Do animals have souls got questions. First animals have a body. Obviously being an animal they dont have a human soulthey dont need one. 1 Corinthians 211 states.

Maybe God gave animals a special soula free pass to Heavenwhy not. Since then he and other pro-consciousness scientists have concluded that animals have systems not only for seeking but also rage lust maternal care panic play and fear. Animals and plants cant do anything which transcends the limitations of matter.

Researchers were able to map the brains so-called play system using rat laughter a sound thats too high for humans to hear but sounds like bird calls when manipulated into the human hearing range. As Kant pointed out over 200 years ago everything we experience -- including all the colors sensations and objects we perceive -- are nothing but representations in our mind. 321 KJV It is clear that God does care for the animals.

Solomon the wisest man states that both man and animals. In a long and fascinating letter the fourth Lubavitcher rebbe Rabbi Shmuel known as the Rebbe Maharash explains that although some Kabbalists were of the opinion that animals dont have immortal souls5 according to the teachings of the Arizal animals do in fact have independent souls and they do go to heaven6 The Arizal is generally considered the final arbiter for all Kabbalistic teachings. So yes animals are a part of the same life-death-rebirth cycle that humans are in but at some point they cease to be animals and their souls enter human bodies so they can be closer to God.

The answer to whether animals have a soul is yes but only because of a technicality. The reason you can have this hope is because from the very beginning of time in the original state of holiness the Garden of Eden it appears there were animals. Do animals have souls.

In many passages God shows compassion for the beast or bird whether by the law or other means. It bothers me that certain Christiansdenominations dont believe that the animals that have lived here on Earth will go to heaven because they dont have a soul. There is a difference between the soul and the spirit and since most dont understand what that difference is they get the two confused.