{"id":44626,"date":"2022-10-01T01:17:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/do-animals-go-to-heaven-bible-questions\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:17:28","slug":"do-animals-go-to-heaven-bible-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/do-animals-go-to-heaven-bible-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Do animals go to heaven? &#8211; Bible Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Do dogs and other animals go to heaven?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ecclesiastes 3:21 states, &#8220;Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?&#8221; Solomon compares man to beasts in this chapter. While men have a soul that will return to God (Ecclesiastes 12:7), animals do not. It was man that was made in God&#8217;s image, after God&#8217;s likeness (Genesis 1;26). Animals were not so made. Hence, while animals have animation, they have no spirit and no expectation of either eternal reward or punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do dogs and other animals go to heaven? Ecclesiastes 3:21 states, &#8220;Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?&#8221; Solomon compares man to beasts in this chapter. While men have a soul that will return to God (Ecclesiastes 12:7), animals do not. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/do-animals-go-to-heaven-bible-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do animals go to heaven? &#8211; Bible Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}