Do pets go to Heaven?

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — It’s a query many Christians ponder and search for solutions on: do our pets go to Heaven?

The reply definitely isn’t black or white, however the Bible gives up some particulars on God’s intentions for animals beginning in Genesis.

Trinity UMC Senior Pastor, Brian Erickson, joined Chloe Vincente on the CBS 42 Sunday morning information to debate the considerably controversial query.

“Genesis is an efficient place to begin. You see the complexity of humanity’s relationship to creation. God creates the whole lot that’s and calls it good, however God additionally distinguishes between humanity and different animals. Humanity is the head of God’s creation, created in God’s picture, and in that approach distinct from the animal kingdom. On the identical time, after the flood in Genesis 9, when God establishes his covenant with creation, it’s a covenant not solely with humanity, however with each residing creature – symbolized by the rainbow within the clouds,” He defined. “So all through Scripture, we get the sense that humanity is about aside from the animal kingdom, and but God’s intention is to redeem all of creation. So at any time when we speak about a beloved pet, what occurs after they die, will we be reunited with our pets in heaven? I don’t declare to have the definitive solutions. There have been strands all through Christian historical past the place theologians have wrestled with that. People are distinctive, however the renewal and redemption that God is after is the redemption of all life and all creation.”