Do the animals have a soul, we ask, especially a dog?
A divine spark of the intellect that physical death survives?
Or are they merely a collection of instincts and of drives,
Designed to make them live a bit and in this world do thrive?
Some say that they lack the immortal soul that God into Adam did breath,
But the same can be said of the Woman named Eve if Genesis we believe.
Else the soul could be transferred in part of the flesh taken out
From Adam’s chest to form the first woman, withouth a breath no doubt.
I look into Barika’s amber eyes and I see there her deep love below,
She would not hurt me with fearsome teeth or even a careless blow.
God gave us dominion over the plants and all His creation and beasts,
So can we elevate the ones we love and return the love that they give?
Copyright: Geezer Bela in Exile.
Some people believe that dogs do not have a soul because the Bible does not state that God had breathed a soul into them. My point here is that there is no statement that Eve received a soul that way either, yet Christians have no doubt that women have a soul. Muslims, in fact, believe that women will not enter Paradise, except as the 72 virgins that every Islamic male Martyr gets to rape. Jews believe that there are special animals (called 'nefesh') that had been specially created to be our companions. I guess the question is how much of God's abilities has He given us and allows us to exercise. We have clearly been given the capacity to love and to sacrifice for our loved ones. So, then can we evoke in some dogs the capacity to love? I think so.
Dogs do seem to express emotion:
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