Animals are not souls? Animals are not spirit???

Dog atleast I am certain are a physical manifestation of God's love for us. He gave us a wonderful thing to be our most loyal companion and friend. I would be incomplete and lost without a dog even though they age and die and I have had more than a few once the period of grief ends and I have mourned my loss I always am rewarded with another. Cats are ok too...I guess.

Dear Shadow Dance,

I'm afraid you don't know what you're talking about. You say there's no point for pets to have a soul. Are you REALLY able to say that? I don't humanize my dogs, I take care of them, but they are ALL UNIQUE individuals! I'm sure any dog/cat/cow/sheep/mouse owner can say the same.

I have currently three dogs still alive, and including the two who are barking at a happier place, they are ALL INDIVIDUALS. They all have their own, UNIQUE personality, their unique treats, unique behavior, unique way of reacting to stuff, unique way of COMMUNICATING, unique way of being afraid, happy, sleepy, grumpy, and ALL other HUMANE emotions!

The only thing they are lacking from being human-like, is unability to talk, read and write human understandable words. EVERYTHING else is the same. Exactly the same, they lack NOTHING.

And on top of that, they are much better in sensing stuff what's happening, seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, EVERYTHING.

I would rather ask how many PEOPLE don't have a soul. But dogs do. I'm sad to hear that you think our LOOKS determine if we have a soul or not. Or if we crap outside or inside.

And just without humanizing anything - when my father died (not really expected yet), my mother called me from 2000 miles away. By the time my phone rang, I had known for 15 minutes already what she was going to say.

When my first dog died (unexpected), I was like 6000 miles away. When my wife called me, I had known about it for like 30-60 minutes already.

When my sister-in-law died very recently, I was at a church for Sunday-mass. Half way through the mass (about 10am), I was actually hung-over and feeling crappy, I suddenly got a huge boost of good feeling. I thought that our Lord's holy spirit entered me, something I had not encoutered before. Then my wife called like an hour later, saying her sister had passed away. Only much later I learned, the moment had been around 10am.

Just wanted to put this out there. Hoping you might even see this.

By the way,

Many people were found dead locked alone inside their homes with their pets, these pets dogs or cats most of the time eat from their master dead bodies, after a long time left alone beside their dead master.

A spiritual being doesn't do that, you would say some men did the same, right but not those spiritually awaken would ever do that.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I have been so close to a couple of my dogs in the past that we conversed telepathically. If you treat your dogs like a family member and not a pet, they will respond in incredible ways.

I appreciate your sincere reply, but the created purpose of a pet (or any animal ect) is not the same as the purpose a soul-carrier was created to do ... we are NOT animals, we are spirit being that use Soul carriers to experience LIFE in a physical world - This entire Solar System was created to sustain LIFE - for HUMANS ... not the bodies that they are in ... their (soul) consciousness is cumulative with each life they live - not so with other life forms - some of which go extinct when they no longer serve any purpose for HUMANS

I respect your Free Will and your right to believe anything you choose - but our domestic animals and our livestock and gardens, are dependent upon us to thrive - but we are not dependent upon them-we are already eating synthetic foods ... they exist to enhance Human life - as a part of what NATURE provides - unconditionally - take them or leave them.

it irks me to no end that people are more concerned about the abuse of animals, when HUMANS are far more abused - and vulnerable than a six week old dog that can survive on its own in nature - compared to a Soul carrier that takes 20 years before it is considered a self-responsible adult ... a hungry individual can be reasoned with for the most part ... a hungry animal will kill and eat what it needs to survive (including its owner or family members) and feels no guilt or remorse when it comes to its instincts for survival - even a chicken will eat meat - it considers mice and bugs as snacks --- instincts are not Soul Consciousness

The following is a quote from an incognito person making their point to support their belief:

Animus, without spirit led by instinct made for the flesh to feed the flesh, anyways God made both animal and human.

Don't be mistaken, i love animals, they basically follow God's rules without any consciousness, you'll never see an animal wage war to the world willing to rule over all the Earth by force and deceit.

I responded to this poster that I respectfully disagree, as I have been there, at this position of belief, before.

So now, I'm making a thread to discuss the evidence, including but not limited to, scripture, that confirms animals not only are souls, but are also spiritual beings.

True. Animals do not have a soul, they do not have an after-life as humans do. They do not know the difference of right or wrong, like humans do, so they will not be judged.

The Bible strongly disagrees for there are many animals in God's kingdom. "The wisdom of man is foolishness to me."