- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Joipax Publishing (December 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0967621801
- ISBN-13: 978-0967621807
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 376 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #837,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The book is eminently readable and is extremely enlightening to all animal lovers. Holmes
interweaves the Bible, animal rescue and many other elements into a brilliant and inspiring
study of animals in eternity. .... This book can be a great solace if you or someone you
know is grieving from the loss of a pet or just has a curiosity to know the answer to the
question." -- Tulsa Lawyer, Jan, 2000
The book is eminently readable and is extremely enlightening to all animal lovers. Holmes interweaves the Bible, animal rescue and many other elements into a brilliant and inspiring study of animals in eternity.
Holmes is not an animal activist ... She is someone with a strong love of animals based on her family history and upbringing. ... This book can be a great solace if you or someone you know is grieving from the loss of a pet or just has a curiosity to know the answer to the question. -- Tulsa Lawyer Jan/2000 issue
Book Description
Do Dogs Go To Heaven? is a question the author's Mom asked a number of ministers. Hearing each one give different "shallow" answers, Jean Holmes felt this question deserved a better answer. The Bible does answer her Mom's question with an emphatic "YES!" Long held theology that animals lack souls and spirits is soundly refuted with numerous Bible texts. This book addresses hard questions, like why God required animal sacrifices, in loving truth. The role of animals and the relationship Jesus Christ had with animals is illuminating. This book presents a brilliant tapestry of Bible verses, interwoven with animal behavior and intelligence studies, and anecdotal evidence of animals as intelligent, caring companions here and in the hereafter. Bible accounts of animals as healers, helpers and rescuers are laid against modern narratives. Do Dogs Go to Heaven is very readable, yet crafted with scholarly precision. It is already providing comfort to those who have lost loved animal friends.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Exceptionally good book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Do Dogs Go to Heaven?: Eternal Answers for Animal Lovers (Paperback)
Well I've got something to shout about and praise God for after reading this wonderful book! There is wonderful teaching and some great preaching and some real important scriptures regarding animal afterlife! I loved the stories about miraculous divine healings and the teaching about why animals were sacrificed in the O.T. Scriptures that show how God loves and restores ALL His creation. And as Jean says "We must explore, prayerfully, what it means to 'preach the gospel to all creation.' If we don't, we may miss God's will, His best." Mark 16:15 I also let Jean speak for herself her when she says "How very poor in joy are those who have never been friends with an animal. Those who become friends with animals are the richest people I know. They have been blessed." And "When I listen to the heart of each animal, I see my Lord." And I also agree with her when she says "For animal lovers, heaven just wouldn't be heaven without their animal friends." Thank you Jean for all your hard work and research to make this book available to us who will appreciate it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspirational, comforting and informative,
By Arlene Millman "chyron24" (Huntington, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do Dogs Go to Heaven?: Eternal Answers for Animal Lovers (Paperback)
This book is a must read for all pet owners, and future pet owners. It is inspirational, first and foremost. Then, it offers comfort and solace to the pain of grief. And, there is much information to be had, as well. Worth a try, and you will read and re-read it, as a source of reference and comfort.Arlene Millman
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just Short of Five Stars,
By Mike Shaw (London, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do Dogs Go to Heaven?: Eternal Answers for Animal Lovers (Paperback)
As a Universalist pastor and animal rights activist of many years, I have to say that this is an excellent book. The cover is absolutely adorable and worth the cost of the book alone. Much of the material presented regarding the souls and spirits of animals is very similiar to my own, which has been posted on the internet for a number of years, however, to Jean Holmes credit, she presents it in a much less confrontational manner than I usually do. So, if I like this book so much and love the cover, why have I only given it four stars instead of five? Well, I feel that the author fell short of presenting, of what could have been, one of the most important books of our time. She is knowledgeable enough to discuss "apokatastasis" in her book, which indeed offers evidence of animals and all of creation being eventually being restored, however, I feel she has greatly missed the full understanding of this teaching, as she seems to hold a more traditional view of hell, by stating it is eternal. Of course hell can not be eternal if, as scripture says, it will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. Such an oversight is, to me, unfortunate. Jean Holmes, like myself, has spent a lot of time researching the original Hebrew words of various texts involving animals, I just wish she had done the same for the Greek word "aion", and other Greek words, which are mistakenly translated in English as "Eternal" and not as a "Period of Time", as they should truly be rendered... and perhaps she could have seen the truth of "apokatastasis". Of course if those reading this review also believe in eternal hell and are animal lovers as well, then I am sure that "Do Dogs Go To Heaven?" will be a five star book to them....
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