Do Christians have any laws concerning cruelty to animals?
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Yes in the bible it syas don't molest animals or anything but that's still being cruel molesting them
869307
I do believe that animals have a soul\nThey love us, protect us with their own life' they sense danger and harm, you can look into their eyes and know they have a soul\nI have prayed for my pet when he was dying and God healed him, after being ran over by a car\nThere are animals in heaven.\nThe lion will lay down beside the lamb,and no harm will be done.\nGod will give them a spirit of love, and not fear
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Animal abuse or cruelty is one of the most heinous crimes there is. Our animals depend on us for everything and tho they are not humans they are as close as some of us get to having our own children. I have a cat and he is my baby. If anything happened to him i would lose it cause i've given him all my love and attention and if anyone raises their hand to him they will have to answer to me. It should be a felony with mandatory sentence of community service in a animal shelter for abandoned or abused animals.  That way they see the affects of their crime. Also mandatory fines should be assessed to the criminal
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Who doesn't contribute to society -- the activists or the animals?\n\nDid you know that animal abuse laws were in place prior to laws prohibiting the abuse of children?  Anti child abuse laws were actually derived from animal abuse laws.  So there's something to be said for those who protect.\n\nThere was a story in my local paper today.  A teacher had brought in a tortoise as a class pet.  Over the holiday weekend, vandals came in and bludgeoned the pet for no reason.  Shouldn't someone stand up for the animal and those who loved it?\n\nAs for the second part of your question posted in additional details . . . the poor starving person already has a voice.  The animals do not.  How many humans realize that they're made of meat too?  Good thing animals don't have the same twisted disregard for our lives as we tend to have over theirs.
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Islam....\n\nMuslims are not allowed to eat pork, or any other animal that eat meat like dogs, snakes, lion.\n\nElephants are not allowed.\n\nAllowed animals are like cow, goat, sheep, chicken, deers, turkey (rabbits are controversial)\n\nAs for marine animals, all fishes with scales are allowed.\nSome sects of Islam consider all fishes allowed.\n\nLobsters and crabs are controversial.\n\nAlcohol and other inoxicated drinks are forbidden.\n\nOne thing should be noted that the allowed animals have to be slaughtered in an islamic way and fulfill the conditions (halaal) like slaughtering with least pain, facing Mecca, mentioning the name of God.....\n\nHope this helps.
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You would have to ask someone who was Jewish. But animals do not have souls which are "accountable" for sin, so I wouldn't think that it would matter to the animal. They aren't going to go to hell. But the owner is in charge of what the pet gets to eat (most of the time!) so it would be up to them.
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The Oxford Annotated Bible gives the annotations for Chapter 20 of Leviticus a lead-off of "Penalties for violating the rule of the theocratic community."  The paragraph it is located in deals with various sexual relations which are prohibited and their various punishments.  To the people of the time, animals were pure property, and there was really nothing about "animal cruelty".  It also mentions that a man who has relations with both a mother and daughter, well, all three of them are to be burned to death.
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NO\n\nGod-fearing men see in animals part of God’s generous provision for human welfare. Animals have served man as burden bearers, as sources of food and clothing, as sanitation agents, and as helpers in the vital activities of plowing and harvesting. Their variety of form and color has delighted his eye; their habits and instincts have been and still are an extensive field for inquiry into the marvels of God’s creative work. Though animals die in the same manner as man, they do not share his hope of a resurrection.—2Pe 2:12; \n\nAnimals were created with a limited life span, humans had the prospect of living on earth forever. (Genesis 3:22, 23; Psalm 37:29) Jesus Christ said that to enjoy “everlasting life,” we must exercise faith and take in knowledge of God—things that animals are incapable of doing. (John 3:36; 17:3)\n\nGod created animals for the sake of humans. Animals can help them do their work and can serve as their companions or pets. They also serve to magnify God’s love and wisdom.\n\nThe Creator gave life to both humans and animals. But for how long were they to continue to live? Scientists report that humans seem to have the potential of endless life, so that investigators are perplexed as to why man dies. The Bible gives the reason. It says that the Creator gave the first humans the opportunity of living forever. Death came only because they rebelled. (Gen. 2:17; 3:17-19; Rom. 5:12) What, though, of animals? They are not capable of conscious rebellion against God; yet they live only for a length of time and then die. Hence, it is clear that the Creator never purposed that individual animals live forever. For them death was natural.—2 Pet. 2:12.
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Jesus Christ was to be a role model for us to follow, but as with all laws, the laws of the  old testament had consequences for breaking those laws, which was animal sacrifice. Since Adam by his disobedience to God, inputted the seed of sin in man, it was through the Death of A Good, Perfect Man, The Son of God, that the  penalty of the laws were fulfilled.
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That depends on what you consider abuse. If you mean torturing a pet, I think most states procecute that crime pretty harshly already. If you are talking about something idiotic like Whole Foods not carrying live lobsters because it is inhumane to the lobsters then you are way off base.
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yes you can kill harmfull creatures of god, and so that to protect your self, and others, but it would be better if you could throw the small creature away and not to kill it.\nTHAT is if you can.
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Can't think of anymore, I think I'm the only one answering that agrees with u, lol. There good though covered all the reasons i don't believe. Oh wait think I've got one if there is a heaven where do the animals go? They can't sin (or at least don't understand their doing it) so u can't send them to hell, but they can't pray, worship or believe in God so they can't go to heaven. That and what happens to all the people who where alive before Jesus? They were never told about God and Jesus hadn't been born so do they automatically go to hell? If they do God can't be that great of a being. You can't punish someone for a crime that wasn't a crime when they committed it.
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according to moslem faith there certainly is,that is if you are able to blow away some innocents before you go.\nOn the other hand, christians picture a naked you with a naked other person romping around in green pastures,then what?you are not going to touch that naked other person?bull crap.\nas for jehovahs, they also picture a naked man and naked woman romping around green pastures now with many many animals, are they preaching beastiality?\nyou make your choice.
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God-fearing men see in animals part of God’s generous provision for human welfare. Animals have served man as burden bearers, as sources of food and clothing, as sanitation agents, and as helpers in the vital activities of plowing and harvesting. Their variety of form and color has delighted his eye; their habits and instincts have been and still are an extensive field for inquiry into the marvels of God’s creative work. Though animals die in the same manner as man, they do not share his hope of a resurrection.—2Pe 2:12; \n\nAnimals were created with a limited life span, humans had the prospect of living on earth forever. (Genesis 3:22, 23; Psalm 37:29) Jesus Christ said that to enjoy “everlasting life,” we must exercise faith and take in knowledge of God—things that animals are incapable of doing. (John 3:36; 17:3)\n\nGod created animals for the sake of humans. Animals can help them do their work and can serve as their companions or pets. They also serve to magnify God’s love and wisdom.\n\nThe Creator gave life to both humans and animals. But for how long were they to continue to live? Scientists report that humans seem to have the potential of endless life, so that investigators are perplexed as to why man dies. The Bible gives the reason. It says that the Creator gave the first humans the opportunity of living forever. Death came only because they rebelled. (Gen. 2:17; 3:17-19; Rom. 5:12) What, though, of animals? They are not capable of conscious rebellion against God; yet they live only for a length of time and then die. Hence, it is clear that the Creator never purposed that individual animals live forever. For them death was natural.—2 Pet. 2:12.
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I believe that the term you are looking for is "Trafe".  It refers to all animals deemed unclean under Levitical law.  These laws, if you really look into them, weren't arbitrary.  They were designed to keep safe people who were born in a time when food spoiled extremely easily.
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The Bible does mention horses in Heaven, but there is only one Heaven, and it's reserved for souls of people who have freely chosen God. Animals act according to instinct as God has pre-programmed them. They have no soul but sure are cute.
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It also says to stone people to death, kill them, slavery, all kinds of nasty things.  See the following link.  Yet people CHOSE to pull the one about homosexuality out and use it to be intolerant.  Here are some examples with the verses...\n\nGenesis\n\n"God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." He purposefully designed a system that ensures the suffering and death of all his creatures, parasite and host, predator and prey. 1:31 \n\nGod likes Abel's dead animals better than Cain's fruits and vegetables. Why? Well, no reason is given, but it probably has something to do with the amount of pain, blood, and gore involved. 4:3-5 \n\nBecause God liked Abel's animal sacrifice more than Cain's vegetables, Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of religious jealousy. 4:8 \n\nGod is angry. He decides to destroy all humans, beasts, creeping things, fowls, and "all flesh wherein there is breath of life." He plans to drown them all. 6:7, 17 \n\nGod repeats his intention to kill "every living substance ... from off the face of the earth." But why does God kill all the innocent animals? What had they done to deserve his wrath? It seems God never gets his fill of tormenting animals. 7:4 \n\nGod drowns everything that breathes air. From newborn babies to koala bears -- all creatures great and small, the Lord God drowned them all. 7:21-23 \n\nNoah kills the "clean beasts" and burns their dead bodies for God. According to 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all "clean" animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. "And the Lord smelled a sweet savor."  8:20 \n\nTo free Lot from captivity, Abram sends an army of slaves to pursue and smite his captors. 14:14-15 \n\nGod tells Abram to kill some animals for him. The needless slaughter makes God feel better. 15:9-10 \n\nHagar conceives, making Sarai jealous. Abram tells Sarai to do to Hagar whatever she wants. "And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled." 16:6 \n\nLot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two "virgin daughters" instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to "do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes." This is the same man that is called "just" and "righteous" in 2 Pet.2:7-8. 19:7-8 \n\nGod kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining "fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." Well, almost everyone -- he spares the "just and righteous" Lot and his family. 19:24 \n\nLot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. 19:26 \n\nGod threatens to kill Abimelech and his people for believing Abe's lie. 20:3-7 Gen.16:5-6) and tells Abraham to 'cast out this bondwoman and her son." God commands Abraham to "hearken unto her voice." So Abraham abandons Hagar and Ishmael, casting them out into the wilderness to die. 21:10-14 \n\nGod orders Abraham to kill Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham shows his love for God by his willingness to murder his son. But finally, just before Isaac's throat is slit, God provides a goat to kill instead. 22:2-13 \n\nAbraham shows his willingness to kill his son for God. Only any evil God would ask a father to do that; only a bad father would be willing to do it. 22:10 \n\nDinah, the daughter of Jacob, is "defiled" by a man who seems to love her dearly. Her brothers trick all of the men of the town and kill them (after first having them all circumcised), and then take their wives and children captive. 34:1-31 \n\nThe sons of Jacob trick Shechem into getting circumcised. Then they murder him, his sons, and all the males of the city, while taking their wives captive. 34:24-29 \n\n"The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them." 35:5 \n\n"And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight o