Posted on 11/20/2013 7:19:50 PM PST by Enza Ferreri
There is NOTHING in Scripture to support that notion. For one thing He clearly encouraged eating fish. Fish is an animal and not a vegetable. As for other meats, He appeared to Peter in a vision after His ascenscion and commande Peter to arise and eat after presenting to him a blanket covered with meats (including pork) that were ceremonially "unclean" according to the Hebrew law.
The guy gave out bread (carbs), fish (anti-PETA) and wine (OMG!).
He couldn’t survive modern criteria, LOL.
There is no Biblical basis for seeing creatures as “props”. The Bible does not support such a view and the story of Creation clearly places animals in the garden before man. At that time there was no killing, no eating the animals — and God reiterated that. The animals are innocent victims of what mankind did to God’s world. That is reflected every day. As for what God “can become” — He “can” become anything He so chooses. Revelation points out the animals are clearly worshiping before the throne of their Creator. They are not left out, nor were they an “afterthought” of any kind. They are not here for ornamentation or for man’s pleasure. They are here for God’s - as we are.
Annoyances, stinging and biting insects, etc... have their nature as a result of the Fall. According to Scripture, all of creation groans for the redemption of the world as it was — and none will be disappointed (among the animals, at least. Humanity is another ball game altogether...)
Beyond that, after the flood God specifically gave us meat to eat. Jesus IS God in flesh, so why would He have adopted some silly food fetish which contradicted His own directive?
To my knowledge, only PETA makes the claim Jesus was a vegetarian.
I have been an animal lover all my life, and I have never believed stuff like your claim---"the gut rots when it eats the flesh of beasts." God would never have given us meat to poison us. And I most certainly do not buy into the fiction that vegetarians are more healthy. Every one I've seen has pasty, parched skin and dry hair.
Do yourself a favor. Have yourself a big old steak or pork chop for dinner tonight...while you're at it, wrap 'em in bacon. All that nice animal protein and those lovely oils are just what your body wants.
Well, I’m glad the Lord defeated the serpent.
On a lighter note, something comes to mind—if I’m going to have no choice but to become a vegetarian, there’s a problem. My mouth waters every time I see a deer in its natural habitat. Clearly the deer is my natural prey (from a biological perspective). Remember the deer scene from Red Dawn?
I never saw it, sorry. I’m also glad that the end has been written and we know who is victorious!
You don’t understand the main point of this essay. Many people - and that includes me - don’t believe in God, but believe in the validity of Christian ethics and culture. Like all religions, Christianity has two aspects, the spiritual (personal) and the cultural (societal): I am not discussing the former, but it is the latter that needs to make a comeback. It is the heritage behind which the West can rally, to give it a core, a sense of collective identity, a moral foundation.
One of the first people to alert the West to the dangers of Islam was Oriana Fallaci, who was an atheist but called herself a “Christian atheist”, because she understood very well that the West - and indeed civilization in its proper sense - cannot exist without Christianity.
That helps explain your lack of knowledge on the subject. It doesn't fix your supposition about Jesus re: animals. You try and apply a biblical outlook when the Bible is about Jesus not animals.
a moral foundation
Why pass over the OT then? The Law was given there.
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