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Folks, Christ was CLEARLY a meat-eater, and no amount of poor scholarship will make him a vegetarian.
Christ was, indisputably, a Jew. We are told he was the perfect Jew. The Bible recounts that Christ was sinless, that is, he never, EVER failed to keep every letter of the Law as it was given by God to the Jews.
MAJOR PREMISE: Christ was sinless. (If you believe he wasn't, PETA, then you are attacking my religion and are therefore "intolerant", the most horrible thing a Liberal can be!)
Part of God’s Law was the observance of Passover, the ancient Jewish ceremony that recalled the love and protection shown by God to His people when he brought them out of slavery in Egypt. Before the destruction of the Temple in 70AD, the Passover ceremony included specifically the slaughter of a perfect, unblemished lamb…which was then, under God’s Law, eaten.
MINOR PREMISE: God’s Law demanded that the faithful Jew eat of lamb during the Passover ceremony. (This is documented by the Old Testament, and if you challenge this, PETA, you are going against historical documentation, and being intolerant. The documentation of what Christ did is 2000 years older than your invention that He was a vegetarian. You lose that one, too.)
CONCLUSION: Christ must have eaten lamb, at least once a year. He NEVER failed to do this, or he could not be sinless. He never complained or objected to the eating of lamb…how could he? He said he came not to remove even a “jot or tittle”, not a letter, of God’s Law but instead came to complete it.
SECONDARY CONCLUSION: It was no sin to eat lamb, and by association, it is no sin to eat meat of any type deemed clean by God’s law. If you want to bring God into this, take note that in the Old Testament, all animals are placed under Man’s control by God, to do with as we will. (You Vegans missed that part. You might want to note that after leaving Eden, Adam and Eve wore animal skins as clothes, and God didn't object to that.) And also take note that God made man with these COOL sharp teeth in front…for ripping flesh. If we were supposed to be leaf munchers we would have all flat teeth like horses do.
Also, in Acts 10:10-15, Peter had a vision from God that told the disciple that all food was made clean, even those prohibited to the Jews:
"And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And there came a voice to him, 'Rise Peter; kill, and eat.'
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, 'What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.'"
If the grass-eaters want to do so, fine. There are clearly many health concerns involved, and it would probably be healthier NOT to eat meat. That is their choice. But don’t try to rewrite my Christ to prove your point. Jesus came not to address any petty little point about animals. He came to tell you that He died a physical death for you, to take away your sin and make you clean before God…if you will accept His gift and believe. The life of a single sinning human is worth a billion times more than that cow, folks. Christ didn't come to save the food. He came to save the humans.
Amen!