Do Animals Have Spirits or Souls?

Posted By Kent Owen on Nov 19, 2013

Do Animals Have Spirits or Souls? An interesting question!  Some people say animals have a spirit but not a soul, some say they have a soul but not a spirit.  Men are made up of a body, a spirit, and a soul.  Check out the verses below to see how animals also have a spirit and a soul. Animals Have a Spirit First, animals have a body.  I don’t think anyone will try to prove that they don’t…  But here’s a verse that specifically says animals have a spirit:   Ecclesiastes 3:21 – “Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” [spirit] – H7307 – translated as “spirit” and “breath”.  Everything that has breath has spirit.  In Strong’s Concordance, translation D says “spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)”.  Compare this also with Genesis 1:2, “the Spirit of...