
All Dogs Go to Heaven? (Ghost Dogs! Animal Afterlife?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Animals Going to Hell?
God doesn't want human beings to go to hell. Hell is really the state of human beings who have knowingly anddeliberately rejected the ultimate source of goodness, which is god himself. While many animals show traces of moral thinking, they don't show the ability to make this kind of deliberate rejection of ultimate goodness. So i would think it would be very unlikely the dogs would be in hell because they simply lack the ability to funt freely and fundamental cut themselves off from the source of infinite goodness. Ok, then what about them going to heaven? Heaven is spiritual union with god. And so far as we can tell, no animals here on earth have the concept of god. Therefore,
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Transcript

Many people have wondered or hoped that beloved animals that die continue to live on in heaven, but a common opinion is that they don't. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at that claim and ask if there is any evidence that animals do, in fact, survive death.
