Is it God's word to not eat animals?
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Read a little further into the bible, and you will find that God specified many things that He made for man's benifit.\n\nLooks like you already have a bible handy, so this shouldn't be a problem for you.\n\nThere is a list of foods in various religions, on the second webpage.
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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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I reckon you're wrong. I have been a Christian all my life and would rather eat a cow turd than think homosexual thoughts.
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Well I think the most important part about the lives of animals in the bible is that they were created by God, and for man to rule over them, but after that it pretty much stays with people. And im not too worried about whats gonna happen to them, its the humans we should worry about, but interesting question though, I have no idea.
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Foremost, quote the book and scripture from which you are referring.  There are a myraid of things that may be wrong with your argument that may not come to light unless you are honest in asking a question.  Honesty in asking includes citing your source.\n\nSecondly, this was a question proposed by Saint Augustine during the Fall of the Roman Empire.\n\nThe real question is - "So, we know the right way to live.  Great!  Why don't we do it?"\n\nThe answer is that we still have sin on our souls.  As sinners, we are given over to minor bouts of gluttony where we wish to eat things that taste good rather that what is best for our body.\n\nIt is not easy for anyone, let alone the whole of the Christain world (read Western Society), to break completely from this sin.\n\nIf you are so enlightened as to what Christains should eat, tell me, how do you purge your soul of minor bouts of gluttony?\n\nIt seems you ask your questions more to discredit Christains than to help them.
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Jesus ate no unclean meats.\nIsaiah 66:15-17For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.16- For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many,17- They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, EATING SWINE'S FLESH, AND THE ABOMINATION, AND THE MOUSE, SHALL BE CONSUMED TOGETHER SAYS THE LORD.\n  I don't think we have seen the Lord come back with such fury, as spoken in these verses, so this  is yet to come, and we can see quite clearly from these verses, unclean meat is still considered unclean meats today as well as in the Old Testament.
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I think you may be confusing Jesus' ministry with your respect for animals.  I understand and respect your beliefs, but I really don't think anyone who eats an animal product is being untrue to anything Jesus taught or to Christmas.
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Look at the whole chapter, Leviticus 11:::\n\n                 Leviticus 11:1  And the Etrnl spake unto \n                 Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 2  \n                 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, \n                 These are the beasts which ye shall eat \n                 among all the beasts that are on the \n                 earth. 3  Whatsoever......\n\nit goes on to say what is edible from the domesticated animals (must both chew its cud and have cloven hoofs), and from the waters (must have fins and scales).\n\nFurthermore, the animals must be killed by humans (road-kill is outlawed):::\n\n                Exodus 22:31  And ye shall be holy men unto \n                me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is \n                torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast \n                it to the dogs. \n\nThere are four levels to keeping kosher. The first, defined by the Bible, is the list of animals 'fit' or 'proper' to be eaten. This is found as you read above from Leviticus 11.\n\nThe next level is how the animal is slaughtered. It must be done as instantly and as painlessly as possible. This is insured by making the slaughtering a religious ritual so that it must be done the same way every time.\n\nThe third level is how the meat is prepared. Jews are forbidden to eat blood::\n\n          Leviticus 17:10  And whatsoever man there \n          be of the house of Israel, or of the \n          strangers that sojourn among you, that \n          eateth any manner of blood; I will even \n          set my face against that soul that eateth \n          blood, and will cut him off from among \n          his people. 11  For the life of the flesh \n          is in the blood: and I have given it to \n          you upon the altar to make an atonement \n          for your souls: for it is the blood that \n          maketh an atonement for the soul. 12  \n          Therefore I said unto the children of \n          Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, \n          neither shall any stranger that \n          sojourneth among you eat blood. \n\nTherefore as much of the blood as is possible must be removed. The way this is done is by a very very thick, course salt. The meat is covered with it, the salt soaks up much of the blood, and then the bloody salt is washed off. This is repeated a few times.\n\nThe fourth level is how the meat is served. The Bible tells us that one must not boil a baby goat in its own mother's milk. It was a pagan, not Jewish, custom to take a baby goat and boil it alive in its own mother's milk. The pagans felt this was some sort of magical thing, that the life-giving milk killed the animal instead....who can understand the pagan mentality? At any rate, Gd forbids the Jews from the horrible practice, and so in 3 places in the Bible::\n\n          Exodus 23:19  The first of the \n          firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring \n          into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou \n          shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's \n          milk. \n\n          Exodus 34:26  The first of the \n          firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring \n          unto the house of the Etrnl thy Gd. Thou \n          shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's  \n          milk. \n\n          Deuteronomy 14:21  Ye shall not eat of \n          any thing that dieth of itself: thou \n          shalt give it unto the stranger that is \n          in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou \n          mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou \n          art an holy people unto the Etrnl thy Gd. \n          Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his \n          mother's milk. \n\nFrom this the Jews learn another lesson, and that is that Gd does not want us to mix life, which is the milk, with death, which is the meat. Jews who keep these laws dont mix milk or milk products with meat or meat products, to stay holy to Gd. Remember that 'holy' means 'different, set ap
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Sure, why not?  \n\nSociety determines what is and isn't morally wrong, not the bible. American society says that christians can eat pork, even though the bible forbids it. The bible says that women shouldn't wear jewelry, yet christian women wear it to CHURCH. The bible says you should kill a disobidient child, but we know that to be wrong.\n\nThe bible DOESN'T say that you can't marry an 8 year old girl, but we know it to be wrong. So, we do and avoid things because of social taboos, not biblical.
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We don't really know for certain, it may be that to a certain extent animals participate in or are affected by the sins of humanity.  As long as there is sin and violence among humans there will also be some sort of animal equivalent, nature "red in tooth and claw," but the prophecies portray a new heaven and a new earth where "the lion shall lie down with the lamb" and the small child playing with the venomous serpent without harm, also other passages wolf and lamb, and there shall be no violence on all my holy mountain etc.  The Old Testament prophets also picture animals as having a sense of gratitude, Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.\n20 The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,\n21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
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People are allergic to pollen, pet dander, and foods of all types. That statement would mean that God did not want people to eat, have pets, or go into the sun. Think about it.
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thou shalt not commti murder\ni do it all the time though... i know i shouldnt\nbugs scare me htough(lol im a wimp and proud of it)\nbut if you pray and tell God you sinned and ask him to forgive you  he will forgive you\nhe is not one to hold grudges(from what they say)\nits one of the ten commandments. honestly i have no idea where in the bible it says that \nin my bible it says it at the end so you dont have to look for them in the bible if you dont know where they are\n\noh also the indians prayed before or after(i forget which) they killed an animal because it was an animal that god brought into this world\nso whatever you decide...
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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
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In the Bible an angel of God made a donkey speak to Baalam who was on his way to curse Israel.\n\nKilling an animal for food is not a sin. God permitted us to do this. What is sin is abusing animals.
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pigs are considered dirty. cows are sacred and jews dont eat shellfish,christians can eat anything they like apart from themselves and other humans.
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I am a Mormon, and I am not a vegetarian.\n\nAs far as if it is ALLOWED... I think that some Mormons DO choose to be vegetarians.  There really isn't anything in Mormon doctrine that says anything AGAINST being a vegetarian.  \n\nHowever, I believe that part of the reason animals were put here on this Earth, is to be food for us.  If they die, and they weren't sick, then I think it's a good thing to eat the animals, so the meat isn't needlessly wasted.
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Meat from all animals...jesus was teaching vegetarism...but the catholic Church has deleted the words of Jesus in the year 325AD in the Concilium of Niceae...because it was not good for Business.-\n\nJesus Christ was vegetarian.....