remember a dog's life? don't be disheartened,they are just outside by the door.

Maybe they love and practice lying? Or God is a cat person? Or they are metaphorical dogs? Who can say... Deuteronomy and Matthew seem to have a low opinion of them as well... :)

22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Dogs were closely associated with Hecate and both were connected with magical herbs, with the underworld, and so with the dead. The dead and their spirits played a significant role in ancient Greek and Roman thought, and that realm was one that could not be ignored by those who wanted to insist that the "living one" has "the keys of death and Hades" (Rev 1:18). Who has lordship over the dead: the ouranic Lord symbolized by the Lamb or the chthonic Hecate, symbolized by her dogs? That might also be at issue in Revelation 22:14-15 and possibly in Revelation as a whole. It is sometimes suggested that "the dogs" of 22:15 is a summary term for all the practitioners that follow in the list. So "the dogs ... are here defined as those heathen who are indelibly marked with the qualities of the monster and the whore: sorcerers and fornicators". It is also a shared scholarly understanding that "the dogs" is either a Jewish/Christian metaphor for the gentiles, even though it is used very rarely before the Common Era, or for those who are false teachers and heretics; and the vices that follow are seen to be descriptive of the practices of either grouping. So some may interpret the dogs as "an ancient designation for the heathen," and they might also refer to backsliders, false teachers, and to heretics. There are some scholars who see a specific moral practice in the term and think that it refers to sodomites on the basis of Deuteronomy 23:17-18. There is no question that when Jewish and Christian writers refer to someone or to a group of people as a "dog" or "dogs" they are being derogatory. It is generally known that Jews regarded dogs as "unclean" animals, despised because of their public habits of "mixed" copulation, urination, and defecation. As expected, dogs were banned from many sacred sites. At Qumran, "one must not let dogs enter the holy camp, since they may eat some of the bones of the sanctuary while the flesh is still on them". Such a ban on dogs from sacred sites was also practiced among the Greeks, as Plutarch illustrates: "Some say a dog cannot enter the Athenian acropolis or the island of Delos because of its open mating". Traditional interpretations of "the dogs" are heavily dependent on Jewish parallels, and the cultural context of the churches addressed in Revelation is easily ignored. This is true for interpreting Revelation as a whole: "As is well-known, Revelation must be interpreted by reference to the Old Testament and Jewish traditions". But Revelation clearly is written to an audience in the thoroughly Hellenized region of Asia Minor and "the Old Testament and Jewish traditions" surely would have been heard through Hellenized ears. In addition, the audiences addressed in Revelation lived in a world in which their eyes and ears were constantly bombarded with "pagan" sights and sounds. If this is the case, then Revelation 22:14-15 cannot be interpreted without also taking into account the role and status of dogs in local pagan practices. In fact, an examination of the negative attitude towards dogs in that context is both interesting and revealing and opens the possibility for an understanding of "the dogs" in Revelation 22:14-15, an understanding missed if one is limited to parallels in "Jewish traditions." Personally, if there are no dogs in heaven, I don't think I want to go.

It was talking about human "dogs" in that verse. Read Randy Alcorn's book about Heaven. I love it! It is so positive and uplifting and makes us understand that Heaven is a real place full of all the wonderful things God made for us to enjoy on earth, without the sickness, sadness, and death. Just like God sent some animals to Noah to be saved from the flood, God sends special animals to people who love Him to be saved for eternity. Jesus didn't die to save animals, because they didn't sin, but He will redeem all things and make all things new again someday - that includes our sweet animals. They'll be there, or it wouldn't be Heaven at all.

I look forward to seeing ALL my beloved babies! I don't know what heaven you're talking about.

Because dogs can be fun and entertaining, and as Heaven is a place of virtue and morality and is thus boring like.. heaven, they aren't welcome there

All dogs go to heaven... All Dogs Go to Heaven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Dogs_Go_to_Heaven All Dogs Go to Heaven http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096787/ All Dogs Go To Heaven http://www.tv.com/all-dogs-go-to-heaven/show/9722/summary.html The proof is in the pudding, need I say more?

Who said dogs are not allowed in heaven? God loves all his creations!! And A DOG IS A MAN'S BEST FRIEND!! ALSO dog is GOD!!! I KNOW I will see all my BELOVED DOGGIES IN HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!

No animals are according to the Abrahamic religions because they do not have souls.

Dogs and other animals should be the first ones to go to heaven. They make so many people happy every day and they are sinless. I don't believe in heaven, but if I did, I say all animals go to heaven!

in Revelations it says that we will be able to lay down with the lions so I don't know why dogs won't be able to go as well

Revelation 22:15 says “Outside are the dogs and those who practice spiritism and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone liking and carrying on a lie.’ This is an Illustrative Use of the word dog here in the Bible. Look how dogs are viewed at times in the Bible In these following examples: “Am I a dog?” bellowed Goliath to David, because the latter came to him with a staff. (1Sa 17:43) “After whom are you chasing? After a dead dog?” asked David of King Saul, thus showing that he was insignificant and could do no more harm to Saul than a dead dog. (1Sa 24:14) The dog’s repulsive habit of disgorging food it has gulped down and then returning to eat it again later is used to illustrate the course of those abandoning the way of righteousness and returning to their former state of defilement. (2Peter 2:20-22; Proverbs 26:11) Morally unclean persons are called dogs. God’s law to Israel stated: “You must not bring the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog [“male prostitute,” AT; “likely a pederast; one who practices anal intercourse, especially with a boy,” NW, footnote] into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow, because they are something detestable to Jehovah your God, even both of them.” (De 23:18) All those who, like scavenger dogs of the streets, practice disgusting immorality are debarred from access to New Jerusalem.—Revelation 22:15