Animals and souls

There is nothing in the Bible to support the idea that animals have souls. Everything the Bible teaches about being created originally in the image of God, being conceived and born in sin after the fall in Eden, being guilty of committing actual sins, being the objects of God’s redeeming love in Jesus, having body and soul reunited on the last day, and spreading the good news of salvation concerns people not animals.

Animals certainly were the result of God’s creative power (Genesis 1), but Adam came to recognize how uniquely different he was from the rest of God’s animate creation. We know that part of that difference is that Adam alone consisted of body and soul.