Plants not Animals? (vegan)
⭐Q: Why eat animals, shouldnt we only eat plants?
A: God had Adam and Eve tend the garden in Eden and they had dominion over all creation even the creatures/ animals. They cared for them too. And after the fall God said animals would be afraid of people now. Since sin came into the world. And that they will now be food for us too. Yet, we should still care for them, but not join modern extremism. Yes we should protect many endangered species, not all. No one misses dinosaurs or the dodo bird. We can help try to protext those with dwindling numbers, but we also cant have 5 million rabbits or wolves in our towns overrunning the places humans live. We do need proper population control. And for animals used as me!t we should do our best to make their death as quick as possible. Yes, also We should ensure dolphins are not going into tuna cans, but moreso should ensure foreign tuna fishers and crew are not being mistreated (research that), and that lobster, octopus etc are killed before boiling and cooking them. Though the animal realm just chomps on them like sharks on sealions and tigers on gazelles or birds on its prey, 😬🥺🙁eating them while alive. Humans don't do that, 🙂cuz God has us value life in how we use it and eat it, and given us directions on that👍🙏😇. Even for OT sacrifices God was specific.
Ultimately God made all animals & creatures for us and for Him. [* They are not more valuable than people, whom are a special creation God made for Himself. That's the important point😊].
After Adam & Eve left Eden they ate meat. God did create and intend animals for food, clothes, and sacrifices. He tells us in Scripture to eat meat, he even specified animals not to eat and what could be eaten (*seems to be about diseases like brain worms from not properly cooked pork in 3rd world countries globally back then, and it kept Israel from getting or dying from many diseases). In fact, God told an Apostle to eat things previously labeled unclean. And that what God calls clean is clean. (*Just like humans are sinful/unclean, God can declare it/us clean).
Acts 10:9-16
The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat."
One of the things Jesus ate as a Israelite, was during the Passover (Annual celebration of when God had the blood of a lamb cover them, symbolizing the Savior's sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of sins). Jesus ate lamb as required on that day, [and when the time came he himself became that perfect lamb whose blood was shed for the forgiveness of man's sins]. Jesus ate many things typical of the food in Israel. He ate fruits, vegetables, fish and other meat, and 9 are specifically listed in Scripture. (*)
So, God made animals to also be used and enjoyed as meat. If people purposely make up things to avoid meat ("don't touch it is evil"), making it forbidden or evil, or declare those who eat meat are evil, you are actually calling the Creator, God, evil and all the good he has made and provided as evil. Which is not true. Everything you have has been made by and provided by God. Everything. And he called it good.
God has made animals 1st for himself; his pleasure; as a Creator would. But he also created them for this world, for the purposes man would use them for here. Some are farming help, some for fur clothing [6000 yrs till modern clothing, except Indians, Eskimos, global tribal people still use them]. They're used for bbq beef, many 1000s recipes, others are pets, some are trained like horses, others like dogs are protection animals, bomb and drug sniffers, cancer sniffers, epileptic helpers, comfort animals, and even guide dogs for blind. God gave us many beneficial things when he gave us animals. One of the main things, is for food.
God has designed all things for its purpose. He clearly has told us they are for food. Also about human teeth vs animal teeth it doesn't matter. But interestingly, unlike wild animals our stomachs dont have ability to eat raw meats without being sick. we humans have to cook our meats, and our stomachs digest it, as God designed. And it brings nutrition to our bodies. Humans behave as humans, animals as animals.
Did you know? God even told us to ensure the animals were dead b4 we eat them and that we are not to eat the blood, as the blood is where is life. Today we know that well due to medical field where we have the capability now to know DNA and we can find out things like cancer and we can know from tests if diseases and ailments can be helped by something or cured of it by taking tests with blood after treatment. It is great to be blessed with living in modern times.
It is also good that we can easily go to a store or butcher for meat and don't have to raise and clean our own food, [though my family did in 80s when growing up cuz it was normal outside of cities back then, still is today for chickens and some home raised animals.]
But it is all so fascinating all that God created and gave to us, and even now shows us more and more about things through things like modern medical field.
I do not feel guilty for eating these things (gifts) God has given me for nourishment. I love beef, chicken, rabbit, duck, pork, quail, and fish. As well as the fruits and vegetables he made for us to enjoy.
“Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving” 1 Timothy 4: 2-4
Having a wrong view of animals is where the problem lies. God created them for our use in this temporary world. They provide us with a lot. And it is a blessing from God.
God put animals and produce on the planet for us to enjoy eating, and they all have various uses. it is good that He made them for us too, they benefit us well for 6000 yrs and will until the last Day.
The animals used for food are not to be abused, but are still for food. Normal slaughtering of animals for meat is normal.
Did you know the 1st animal slaughtered was by God in Eden? It was an example of the horrific death the coming Messiah (whom He promised these humans) who would be slaughtered for their sins, paying their sin debt, and only by the shedding of blood is the remission of sins possible. Only by Jesus.
The more people understand, the better.
Sin is very serious. Note, not only did Israel have regular sacrificial animals slaughtered daily for sin, but Mark 11:27–33 tells us mass numbers 2.7 million journeyed there annually and each one sacrificed an animal. Those were mass numbers of slaughtering and blood shed. They were also shadows of The Lamb of God (Jesus) who would "once for all time" be sacrificed, end the sacrifices, and make salvation possible for all.
Get right with God today. Tomorrow isnt promised.
And if Jesus returns before you get saved, you will be among the ones slaughtered in His justice.
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What about the killings and devistation vegans are doing to plant life and to other animals and creatures? Are vegans unaware of this? Perhaps they will go to extremes and just eat air.
Footnotes:
(*) 9 Foods the Bible notes Jesus ate
⭐Is there anything wrong with eating just produce?
People can choose.
true. While even Daniel requested vegetables instead of meat (Daniel 1:8-16), there is nothing wrong with preferring or eating mostly produce, or times it is appropriate, but if you make a vegan or vegetarian cult or worldview out if it, or try to force others into it, it goes against God.
There is also research that proves one cannot get all the important body needs with just plants though; we were designed to eat and need meat.
So no one should judge others for a preference, but if you demand everyone stop eating meat, lobby for laws to do so, then you are in the wrong. People have freedom and liberty to eat and live how they prefer.
Colossians 2:16: "Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink
Romans 14:3-4: "The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does
Peter, one of the apostles of Jesus, received a vision from God; he saw a sheet coming down from heaven containing all kinds of animals, including some that were considered unclean under Jewish dietary laws. A voice told Peter to kill and eat, but Peter refused, saying that he had never eaten anything impure or unclean.
Acts 10:15. "The voice spoke to him a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'"
1 Corinthians 8:8: "But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do."
What brings us near to God, and what is mans greatest need? Link
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