Sunday, March 8, 2009

Was Jesus a vegetarian?

I have been thinking about that for a few hours. Not that it would make a huge difference in my eating habits if I were told Jesus was a meat eater. I wouldn't go and buy a Junior bacon cheeseburger. I have been searching vegetarian recipes, vegan shoes, bags things of that sort because I do plan to eventually have my whole lifestyle cruelty-free. Now the hard part is getting my other half to tag along =). But during that research I have found material stating that Jesus could have been a vegetarian. I could see where he could have possibly been a vegetarian. Come on now, he is the son of God why would he want to eat anything that can feel hurt, that loves and can suffer. I do feel it is wrong the way you devour our meat today. It only took one video for me to stop eating meat. I was one of the people that would say "but it tastes so good, I don't know how you could be a vegetarian." "What the eyes don't see the heart doesn't feel" this little phrase goes hand in hand with all the factory farm cruelty videos. On that note.....

Genesis 1 28-31
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Romans 14:21
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause any man to stumble.

Ecclesiastes 3 18-20
Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all shall return.

Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox with hatred within."

"Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of something to eat." ~ Romans 14:20

"He who killeth an ox is as if he slew a man. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear, for your hands are stained with blood, and your mouths are defiled with flesh." Isaiah 1:15,66:3

Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Now notice God says "just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything". This is proof to me that before this point, people were only eating fruits and vegetables.

Also, after Adam and Eve sinned then did God provide animal skin to better cover themselves and their shame.

Just pondering here.....

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