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All Dogs Go to Heaven? (Ghost Dogs! Animal Afterlife?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

God cares for all creatures, and if the evidence indicates that he's given them souls that survive death, i don't find a need to restrict that to only domesticated animals. So even though we can use animals to fulfil our needs, we owe them kindness because of their relationship to god. Do all dogs go to heaven? This is a question on which we have to be careful, because god doesn't tell us. We know that for mans there are two destinies, heaven and hell. But theologians have speculated that there might be another sort of destiny for those who die without personal sin, but without receiving sanctifying grace. In view of god's universal salvific will for

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