-Removed-Telling a child that a deceased pet has gone to heaven is a way to console a child that it isn't really dead; it's just gone somewhere else.
Official doctrine (for grown-up Christians) is that only humans are made in God's image, only humans have souls, therefore only humans have an afterlife. All other animals die and stay dead.
@rookie54 said'And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.'
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
even the sausage in the jambalaya i ate last night...
Leviticus 11:7
@ghost-of-a-duke saiddamn...
Then all is forgiven. Go and sin no more.
i was looking for a shellfish angle...
help a brother out...
@rookie54 saidI use to go collecting shellfish.
damn...
i was looking for a shellfish angle...
help a brother out...
Until I pulled a muscle.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
enough dad jokes...
back to pets, or livestock, or untamed animals, or fish, or insects, or any other form of "life" we know (including plants, because i WANT my venus flytrap by my gold-sheeted bed in heaven) that will or will not be accompanying us to the promised land...
i think it would be one of the Lord's egregious oversights if He/She did not allow the entities that were endeared to us in life to be forcefully removed in the glorious afterlife...
my penny
@rookie54 saidthe glorious afterlife
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
enough dad jokes...
back to pets, or livestock, or untamed animals, or fish, or insects, or any other form of "life" we know (including plants, because i WANT my venus flytrap by my gold-sheeted bed in heaven) that will or will not be accompanying us to the promised land...
i think it would be one of the Lord's egregious oversights if He/She did not allow ...[text shortened]... s that were endeared to us in life to be forcefully removed in the glorious afterlife...
my penny
do angels fornicate?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidReally? That is a surprise!
I use to go collecting shellfish.
Until I pulled a muscle.
I can't picture you collecting shellfish.
-VR