{"id":3597,"date":"2024-05-24T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/do-cats-go-to-heaven\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:43:57","slug":"do-cats-go-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/do-cats-go-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaan katten naar de hemel? De Bijbel zegt het niet, en christenen verschillen van mening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>The Bible does not say whether cats go to heaven. No verse describes an animal&#039;s life after death; Ecclesiastes 3:21 asks the question and leaves it open. Christians have answered both ways: Thomas Aquinas taught that an animal&#039;s soul dies with its body, while John Wesley and C. S. Lewis saw room for animals in the new creation. Are cats mentioned in the Bible? The King James Version, from Genesis to Revelation, never mentions a cat. Cats appear once in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible does not say whether cats go to heaven. What Isaiah 11, Romans 8 and Revelation 21 show, and what Aquinas, Wesley and C. S. Lewis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-debates"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22340,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/killing-cat-biblical-dreams\/","url_meta":{"origin":3597,"position":0},"title":"Dreaming About Killing Cats: Cats Barely Appear in the Bible","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"januari 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Cats barely appear in the Bible: one verse in Baruch, in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, not the 66-book Protestant one. 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