Ever since God created both man and animals, and ever since He gave them to us for food, and to have them around us for us to tend, our treatment of them has been a concern. Remember, Jesus called Himself “the Good Shepherd,” and spoke of how He cares for and protects His sheep while a hireling doesn’t. If we didn’t understand taking good and adequate care of sheep from some sort of experience, and if God approved of cruelty towards them, then how could we possibly understand Jesus calling Himself the Good Shepherd? While secular humanists are off-base in their desire to elevate animals to human status, just as they are on murdering unborn children, they’re off-base on everything. They believe in secular humanism. So in their world-view, chickens are chose over children. Christians are not to oppose them by just being the opposite of what they are, but to offer our own world-view. We have to look to the Lord, for when life begins, but also, so far as we have responsibilities for the laws and the rules of the world, on something like the proper treatment of animals. Christians can, therefore, support laws making animal abuse a crime. People can do terrible things to their pets, for example, and in the light of God’s Word, I believe they should face criminal penalties for doing so, even if what they’re destroying is their own property. It’s one thing to destroy your own inanimate object, but another to destroy a beast for the purpose of making it suffer in the process.
Not relevant.
In any way shape or form.
Because I am not advocating animal cruelty.
I am chastising those who whine about it when babies are dying.
Either because they are stupid, or because they are evil.
And yes, the ten spies who would not go into the land and all of their allies who stood against Joshua and Caleb fall into one of those two categories. No exceptions. As is the parallel here.
I will stand against the evil of abortion that is consuming this land. I will chastise those wo will not stand.
And Faith, I will oppose those who use scripture to defend those who will not oppose the slaughter of unborn children whilst crying crocodile tears over beasts loudly and unrelentingly.