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My connection is chronically slow — can you summarize the answer?
I will tell you if they aren’t there then I ain’t going...
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
(1 Corinthians 2:9 )
Randy Alcorn looks at what scriptures IMPLIES but does not EXPLICITLY tell us and his answer is more in the POSITIVE direction rather than negative.
He says, God has a future purpose for animals and He does not simply create them and let them go to waste. He made a covenant with Noah and the whole of creation in Genesis 9 (”all my creatures”).
So, although scriptures do not explicitly tell us what will happen to our pets, Alcorn answers the question with, WHY NOT ?
A loving God will do anything to perfect the joy of the redeemed.
(I paraphrase him of course ).
If you want to know the background of the person answering this question, here it is :
Randy Alcorn is an American Protestant author and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a non-profit Christian organization dedicated to teaching an eternal viewpoint and helping the needy of the world. He has written seven novels, including Deadline, Dominion, and Deception. He received a Gold Medallion Book Award in 2003 for his novel Safely Home. He has also written twenty non-fiction books, including Heaven, The Purity Principle, and The Treasure Principle. Eternal Perspective Ministries owns the royalties to his books and 100 percent of them are given away to support missions, famine relief, pro-life work, and other ministries.
He and his wife, Nanci, have two grown up and married daughters, Karina and Angela, who assisted him in writing the novel The Ishbane Conspiracy in 2001. Randy and Nanci have four grandsons. They live in Gresham, Oregon.
He wrote a book similar to The Screwtape Letters called Lord Foulgrin’s Letters. In Alcorn’s book, references are made to demons, known only as “ST” and “WW” (for it had become a crime in Hell to even speak their real names), who had their letters found by a human and were punished by Beelzebub for their incompetence. He has also written a sequel to Lord Foulgrin’s Letters entitled The Ishbane Conspiracy in which Lord Foulgrin from the first book is put on probation and is receiving letters from a senior demon named Prince Ishbane. In between the letters actual scenes from the humans lives unfold.
In November 2009, Alcorn signed an ecumenical statement known as the Manhattan Declaration calling on Evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox not to comply with rules and laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against their religious consciences.
There will be pets in heaven.
I don’t think I will see my particular pets, but I will have pets.
I really want a baboon.