The combination of omnibenevolence, predestination and salvation only of the elect is a thorny knot; impossible to untangle if you stop to think about it. Unless you try to take the position that those predestined for damnation are philosophical zombies, placed only for the benefit of the elect? Which, if fMRI data are totally ignored on the grounds of possession (or not) of a soul, is the position you have to take for dogs. And if dogs are zombies, then people shaped things can be too … That’s the first step onto a thoroughly unpleasant slippery slop. 
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