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Do pets go to heaven; A reflection on the death of our pets.

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  Will Leo our Pet rabbit go to heaven at the Eschaton? This week we lost a pet Rabbit.   His name was Leo and we had him for about seven years.     I have to say that Leo has taught me a lot about love and compassion.     I'm not one of these people that believes that animals don't have sentience.     I believe that animals were created by God. I also believe that there are animals in heaven.     And why do I think this?   Well, for example?   Elijah was taken to heaven by a chariot of horses and animals, obviously in the Bible had a certain amount of intelligence. For example, when God commanded a donkey to speak to its owner, or the owner would have been killed by an Angel, or the time when the Ravens were commanded to go and feed Elijah. So, animals are very very pecial. Now for a lot of people they want to know if their pet is going to heaven.   My own personal opinion is that I actually believe that pets can go to heaven.    I never really thought of it that

The Cosmological argument is indeed an argument for a First Cause, but it explains nothing of the Divine Love Story.

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  The Cosmological argument is indeed an argument for a First Cause, but it explains nothing of the Divine Love Story.   Plato and Aristotle having a chat (The image was taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument#/media/File:Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg) The world of science runs on cause-and-effect discoveries and for that reason the Cosmological argument of Aristotle will always be seen as a proof for the existence of God.   Talking about cause-and-effect scientists while crunching numbers have made a great discovery with a semi atomic particle known as the w boson: “The CDF scientists said they had determined the W boson’s mass with a precision of 0.01% – twice as precise as previous efforts. They compared it to measuring the weight of a 350kg (800 pound) gorilla to within 40 grams (1.5 ounces). They found it was different than the standard model’s prediction by seven standard deviations, which are also called sigma.   Cliff said that if you were flipping a