Do animals grieve?

[Deeje]

Not much I don't suppose. But I was wondering - what do you think will happen to the mammalian grief response process in the New World?

Do you really think that our present state of being is what it will be like in the new world? I am anticipating something, the likes of which we have never experienced before. (1 Corinthians 2:9) I will have to wait and see. If that "mammalian grief" is just a brief adjustment in their instinctive programming, then why assume that God can't take care of his own creation? You are putting human limits on him again.

I mean will "we" still weep for our lost pets? When that cuddly lion cub that the little girl is hugging in the picture grows old and dies after a lifetime of providing faithful companionship - will there really be no "grief and sighing"? Will our dogs still fret when we leave them for a few hours? Will we not feel that profound sadness when a 160 year old turtle that we knew personally for her entire life finally closes her tearful eyes for the last time?

Will you be there to find out? I am hoping to.
I am thinking that animals were not designed to live forever and who knows, perhaps we will have the ability to resurrect or heal the special ones? Whatever happens, the Creator will take care of it. He has no limitations, remember? If he says that there will be no "mourning, not outcry nor pain" in his new world, why shouldn't I believe him? Why do you disbelieve him?..."O ye of little faith"...or no faith.....imagining the worst from a purely limited human perspective.

Will death really be no more - and mourning...

That was the promise to humans, not animals. Who knows what the Creator has up his very large sleeves? I trust him because he has never given me a reason not to.

or is that reward just for the remnant of the one "kind" that did most in "ruining the earth", eliminating hundreds of other "kinds" of God's creation altogether in the process and justifying themselves at the most critical of all times by imagining that its all OK because all will turn out well after God's "fast approaching" intervention? I hope, for their sake, that other animals don't also have a sense of justice!

I am not too sure exactly what you mean by that.....

"Fast approaching" has to be taken in the context of universal time, not just earth years.
These last days have been "panting on to the end" just as the Bible said they would......but look at where we are now! We have never seen anything like this situation before. "The sea" is more restless than it has ever been...the winds of change are approaching. Don't tell me you can't see it. Something's gotta give! Perhaps its time for their new world order, so that a cry of "peace and security" can be made? It will be a lie, of course.

Human kind have wrought much damage to this earth, it is true....but nothing that cannot be reversed by the one who decreed the seventh day to sort it all out.