life help: Do animals have a soul? - Help.com

Let’s start with humans, they consist of a physical body, a soul and a spirit. You may think a soul and the spirit are basically the same thing, but actually it’s not. The soul is the human’s personality and the spirit is the part of a human that lives on forever after it’s physical form dies. Animals consist of both a body and a soul. In other words, it has a physical form and a personality. If you were wondering originally if animals, say your pet dog, will go to Heaven when they die then here is a straight forward answer. I’m not sure about your beliefs, but I believe that if you ask God for anything he will give it to you. In Matthew 7:7 Jesus says “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, anthe door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” Those were just a few of the many wisely spoken words Jesus had said while he was on the Earth. My point is that although your pet and animals in general, do not have an spirituall body that lasts forever, if you ask God to allow your pet to be with you in heaven (or go to Heaven if it already past away) than he will do that for you. And if you aren’t sure if you are going to Heaven after your physical body is done, then here’s how you get there. 1st realize that you’ve made mistakes (everyone has and no one’s perfect); 2nd ask Jesus to forgive you of those mistakes (he loves you and there’s nothing to great that you’ve done that he can’t forgive you for…he actually wants to forgive you. Plus, after you ask for forgiveness God forgets the mistakes you’ve made…yeah pretty cool) Those are the steps you need for your eternal spirit to enter Heaven…yeah that’s it…you don’t just go because your were a “good” person and never killed anyone. You get to go to Heaven because JEsus took your spot on the cross, he died for you. Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” Basically, we were supposed to spiritually die (our eternal spirit would go to Hell) but Jesus died in our place and all we have to do is except Christ’s sacrifice and ask for forgiveness.
However, don’t just stop at this point. God loves you too much to let you just get a free ride into Heaven, he want’s to be your friend on the Earth. ANd I strongly advice you to find any Bible you got (borrow one or buy one) and go to a church with loving, true christians at least once. And I mean loving, true christians, because I’m sure you’ve meet fake ones before. And if you had or still have any doubts it there is really a God, just look up into the stars one night and that’s all the evidence you need for a creator.
God Bless you and Great question :)

tricky wrote:
nop i dont think so … i think if they did they would be invading earth :P

Invading the earth? If they had souls…they would be…invading the earth…I think you are confusing “intellect” with “soul” and “alien” with “animal”.
Anyhow!
As for OP, that’s a personal belief kind of topic, but I believe they do have souls. I see the wonderful personalities of the cows, chickens, cats, parakeets etc that I have encountered as evidence that there is more to them than an empty shell. They are individuals, they form bonds, they learn and accommodate, they have preferences and needs…my interpretation of something soulless is something nearly robotic- it possesses no depth, it just exists.
My religious beliefs also weigh into this topic for me, as I believe that God sent forth his spirit into every creature.

why do you people think that

if you look at animals, you will see very different personalities between them, to me, at least, this is proof of a soul. Without a soul, then an animal could not possibly have feelings.