Do you honestly think that our God of love and mercy WANTS humans and animals to be at each others throats? Of course not! Again, that is not the way it was in the beginning, and it is not the way it will be again one day.
At the very beginning, right after the disobedience, God killed an animal and with the skin He gave it to Adam and Eve to dress up.
God himself killing animals as well.
Well, if God does it, why not me?
Yes, we live in a fallen world. But you seem to be using that as an excuse to do what YOUR flesh wants to do, rather than seeking God’s perfect will.
God never asked us to be vegetarians, He say to obey His laws, and His laws say you can eat cow, lamb, giraffe, fish with scales, chicken, etc.
Like I said to the other guy, Jesus taught us to pray for God’s will be to done ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. In other words, here on earth a lot of things take place that are not God’s perfect will, but things that God allows to take place. In heaven there is God’s perfect will - which we already know is love, peace, non-violence…. A world without suffering, exploitation, killing and death. Jesus taught us to pray for God’s kingdom to come and God’s will to be done… on EARTH as it is in heaven.
You are confused again. We still living in the world WITH SUFFERING. We are not in the next step. And you will be surprised when you learn the damage you do to your body when you change from diet with meat included to vegetarian diet only. You damage your body, you won't make it better.
You are basically saying that because we are not yet in God’s perfect world, in the restoration of the peaceful world that He created in the beginning… we should just throw our hands up in the air, forget about trying to make this a better world and just wallow in the sin and misery and fallen ways! No, we are told to do the opposite!
No. What I said is that you cannot do something that God never told you to do in order to please him. Look what happened to the sons of Aaron the priest. God killed them, because they came to make a ritual with fire he didn't ask for to be done.
Just obey what God says and that is enough. Apparently you are trying to be even "more pure" than the Christ himself. That is a no no.
There is NO verse in the Bible that states Jesus ate lamb. You are reading into the text. As for fish, that one is debatable, but as I said earlier, I’m not going to get into that right now, because not only is it controversial but it is a big topic that I don’t think we even need to get into at this point.
Yes I do. This point is very important, and I don't see any controversy about it.
Fish is an animal, and Jesus ate it and he even multiply it for thousands of people.
Jesus as an Israelite, celebrated Passover for 33 years, no doubt he ate lamb OBEYING the words of God Father. He can't avoided. It was in the Law, and he didn't commit sin because sin is disobedience to the law of God. So, definitively Jesus ate lamb.
In today’s world, especially for us in the west, there is zero need to eat animals… people do it because they want to, to satisfy their tastebuds, or out of habit/ tradition. In my opinion, those reasons do not outweigh God’s commands for us to be merciful, selfless, loving kind and at peace with all others.
In this case it is not about what you think you need, but about what God Permits you to eat, This is what the bible is about. Not your own thoughts but obeying God and enjoy what he permits for our diet.
Here is what we know: God’s original intent and perfect will for mankind is peace and harmony among all creation, and NO flesh eating. That is clear from Genesis 1:29-30 as well as the many prophetic scriptures about God restoring that perfect world, and as well as the many scriptures on mercy, love, selflessness, serving, etc.
Yup. God said that to Adam alone, when he didn't disobeyed yet to God.
Unfortunately, that was when Adam was in the Garden of Eden.
But later, after Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, the story changed.
We are not in the Garden of Eden. And to us outside that garden, God gave us a different diet. So, if you want, you can be vegetarian, but such won't help you in nothing when is about God business, because He allows us eating meat. You are playing the game of circumcision, like you are dietetic circumcised and the ones who eat meat are dietetic uncircumcised. Such won't work.
I’m going to post the words of someone else that I read today on a different site, because these words eloquently sum up what I have been trying to say: "Looking for ways to get around God’s original intended vegan diet and his oft-stated calls for mercy and humility is neither faithful nor compassionate. A God of love will of course prefer kindness over violence to the innocent."
I guess you can't be a nurse. I think your problem is not misunderstanding the word of God but that you scare or you are afraid of seeing blood. You mix eating meat with "sacrifices" "mercy", Kindness", and more.
Once again, your “we can do it later we don’t have to do it now” mindset goes directly against Jesus teaching on God’s heavenly will, Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven!
You said that we don't have all the words that Jesus said. That you might have other sources of information, perhaps with words of Jesus saying to have vegetarian diet?
The point is that if the Gospels and the letters of the apostles don't say anything about it, is because is not necessary or lacks of importance.
Secondly, I never said that people are not free to choose. Yes, of course we have free will. But if you can choose between selfishness or selflessness, why choose the former? If you can choose between violence and peace, why choose violence? If you can choose between the temporary fallen world or honoring God’s original intent and eternal plan... why choose this fallen world? If you can choose between eating something that screamed in terror and begged for their life… or something that is meant to be food and never screams, why choose the former? If you can choose between serving your own interests or serving the interests of others who are innocent and created and loved by God, why choose your own interests?
Because such choice has not been asked by God and neither by Jesus. That is why.
Look, in reality everything is VOLUNTARY. If you want, you obey His commandments, if you want you obey His precepts, if you want you obey... you get the point.
If you want.
What is valid is that WHEN YOU OBEY, not to be outside of what the Laws say. That's all.
But, it is irrelevant for me or you to suggest that eating meat is lack of mercy, is lack of kindness, etc. Such is deviating the Truth at your convenience, at your own idea that such will make you more "saint".
Again, that type of mindset is not Godly.
There is nothing "Godly" with the act of becoming vegetarian, such is an idea that you have put in your head, and I see that you might stick with it the rest of your life. Just beware of not corrupting other people with fear that if they eat meat they are "Ungodly" people, because God might never forgive you such a false teaching.