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To: ConservativeMind
"God is love. Love one another...Treat all living things with respect, dignity and kindness. You know, that is the same argument given by gays in favor of why homosexuality and any other perversion is 'okay.' Why should anyone have a problem with any perversion or crime when all God is is Love??"

This is a complete red herring. I believe homosexuality is evil, a sin. I also believe in treating homosexuals with love, respect, dignity and kindness. Both beliefs are what God requires of me, just as he requires me to be a good steward of his creation and treat the living things he created with respect. The Bible is not silent on the treatment of animals or their value in God's eyes. I refer you to Proverbs 12:10, Exodus 23:5 and 23:12, Deuteronomy 25:4, Jonah 4:11 and Luke 12:6. The animals sacrificed under the Old Testament Jewish law were killed humanely.

Your arguments are, frankly, pitiful.

123 posted on 04/20/2009 3:02:04 PM PDT by Dan Middleton
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To: Dan Middleton
I am a Christian and believe we are to be stewards of all we have.

That said, none of these references says that it is sinful to beat your animal (ox or otherwise) or kill it, but one does say a righteous man cares for his own animal while another says God notes all animals.

However, God didn't care about the animals not owned by His people:

Joshua 6:21 - They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

No animal has a soul; however, all animals are creations of God or are allowed to exist by God, just as rats and such, which we apparently have no issue with killing, even though they are not something we eat or offer to God.

If someone chose to kill a person “humanely,” would that be any better than being killed in a different way, when both ways leave you without life you would otherwise have?

We are not responsible for the behavior of others, but we are to help them change their ways to accept Christ to then seek to glorify God.

For those interested in the references Dan offered:

Proverbs 12:10 - A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

Exodus 23:5 - If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help him with it.

Exodus 23:12 - Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.

Det. 25:4 - Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Jonah 4:11 - But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?

Luke 12:6 - Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies[a]? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

125 posted on 04/20/2009 3:30:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)
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