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Posted on 02/13/2011 9:27:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Many people are attached to their pets. Pastor Greg asks Randy Alcorn if we will see our pets in heaven. Taken from the message, Big Life Issues by Pastor Greg Laurie.
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Dogs will be in Heaven.
Cats had better be in hell, despicable creatures..
Oh, I’m aware. There was a big problem locally with Laotian immigrants several years back, dogs were disappearing out of peoples’ backyards. Turns out they were taking them, killing them, gutting them and cooking them.
It was widely condemned and regarded as repulsive. You appear to be glibly advocating it. I had a few acquaintances in high school and college, who affected such glib worldliness. Nobody really liked them much after a while.
Giving offense for fun will only take you so far unless you’re in government or on faculty at a university.
RE: Cats had better be in hell, despicable creatures..
Greg Laurie made the same joke in the video :)
My favorite Twilight Zone.
For those of us in risk of hell will our pets go with us if we are damned? Will Charley be looking down on us sinners a ‘roastin un poppin?’
But did God intend them to be immortal like us?
I would tentatively say yes. Man brought death into the world with his sin. Affected everything.
More guilt on us. More glory for God’s solution to the problem on Calvary.
RE: For those of us in risk of hell will our pets go with us if we are damned?
The theologically consistent person would reason thusly — if God restores pets in order to bring Joy to the redeemed, why would he restore pets to those who are eternally separated from Him?
God blew life into all creatures nostrils and all creatures will worship Him.
All creatures includes all creatures; why would God give them life and have them worship Him then not have them in Heaven? :)
He also says that we’ll get along with all animals.
They’ll be there.
I’ve heard of such incidents, but the people I was referring to were consuming pets that they themselves raised, not stole.
This is the sort of thing that happens when people abandon the Word and the Church and come up with what feels good to the god that appears in their own mirrors.
We live out in the country, and our neighbors raise horses, sheep, cows, goats, chickens, pigs, turkeys, ducks, etc... Our daughter occasionally feeds their livestock when the family goes on vacation.
Over the years their children have occasionally befriended a pig, as pigs can be highly intelligent and friendly, much like a dog. They had to tell their one daughter that the pig to which she had become so attached was going to the “Happy Pig Farm.”
MmmmmMMMmmmmmmbacon! My neighbor and I still use “Happy Pig Farm” as a humorous code-phrase, which means to slaughter livestock in such a way as to not traumatize the kids.
If we are to be rewarded in heaven and made happy, then my pets are there waiting. (even my childhood cats named Busey and Lee-Lee). All of them.
If everyone (pets too) is going to heaven what’s to be left on the earth? Stray dogs and kudzu?
I think the Twilight Zone episode “The Hunt” answered this question.
My FAVORITE Twilight Zone episode! :)
You will take a shovel with you, won’t you?
It is said that a pet reflects its owners personality. A damned owner with a damned pet? In short, will a naughty pit bull spend all eternity roasting and popping with its nasty owner while the cutsy pie little terrier and its saved owner looks down upon them from the streets O’Glory? Then there is the saved owner with the “damned dog.” Will the saved owner get to look down and see his nasty ill behaved “damned” Doberman roasting and popping?
I talk to my dog and cat about Jesus. Call me crazy, don't care :)
RE: This is the sort of thing that happens when people abandon the Word and the Church and come up with what feels good to the god that appears in their own mirrors.
I think if you were to ask Greg Laurie or Randy Alcorn, they will concede that scripture is SILENT on the subject ( unless you can show that it isn’t ).
I don’t think they are abandoning scripture at all, they are INFERING from other Bible verses what a Good and Loving God would do.
There are 3 attitudes towards questions like this :
1) Negative response ( again, you would have to infer ).
2) Positive response ( again, you have to infer ).
3) Agnostic response ( but then, that is also a matter of personal inclination ).
I would not say that Randy Alcorn is abandoning the word of God though...
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