I'm sorry, I thought this thread was long settled. It started out about fake meat and why dogs don't see it as food and then having lost that argument morphed to whether dogs were primary meat eaters (carnivores) or not and Coyote SETTLED that with her chart on the evolutionary tree. But now that the first argument was lost and then the second, now it has morphed into an ideological and philosophical one on the corruption of Mother Nature? C'mon.
What next, whether dogs come back to us in the next life???
Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence. The Bible says over and over in many different passages that all creation worships God. All creation worships God. In Revelation and in other prophetic passages, all creation is described as coming around God's throne and worshiping him in the new age, when this age comes to an end. And to understand the sacredness of life one has to understand the beginning and what he created, what kind of world he created. He created a world that was non-violent and described each and every step of his process in creating as being good. When he finished creating this world, the creatures and us, he called it all very good. It all works together for the purpose that he created it for. Including eating plants. Humans and animals were to eat plants not each other. All life is sacred because of the purpose that God set it aside for. Plants are sacred they are our food. Animals and people were created to be in a relationship with one another and with God. This is why they are sacred. All life is sacred because it should inspire awe not in and of itself but because of its creator, it all serves a purpose that God created it for, and it is all deserving of spiritual respect. It all was designed to serve God's purposes.
Thank you. Well said.
Yes, some are so pacifist they will not defend themselves. But some, like Greg boyd, theologian and teaching pastor, who is well known for his warfare worldview of theology and open theism, believes we shouldn't be violent even to the point of defending ourselves. The humble Jesus did not defend himself when violence was imposed upon him. There is a place for pacifism and complete nonviolence. And if one is to believe the Bible and make it authoritative, then there are worse things than to lose one's life during this age, meaning before the second coming of christ. To lose our souls is a far greater loss than our physical lives now. The Bible says it is appointed for man to die once and then the resurrection. And there is a saying that says something like know Christ die once, no Christ die twice. (Editing this again, I realize this is not how it goes the saying goes something like this I think Born twice die once; born once die twice; we must be born again to be able to participate in eternal life with Christ when this age ends).
Defend himself with what? Farming tools against the Roman Legion?
You do know that Jesus loved a good t-bone.
The Bible says that everything was put on this Earth for Man to enjoy and use. If God didn't want us eating steak, he wouldn't have invented animals.
The Bible says that everything was put on this Earth for Man to enjoy and use. If God didn't want us eating steak, he wouldn't have invented animals.
God wants us to enjoy life, but not at the expense of others... including the animals who God created and loves and entrusted to us to manage, but not in a selfish, exploitative way.
It is how Christians ought to live. Many Christians are waking up to this. I don't know a lot about Jainism. I know some about it, when it comes to the Animal Kingdom it is a kinder more christ-like way to view animals. Unfortunately the God that saves isn't worshiped there or followed.
No, I don't think so. The overall view of what the Bible teaches as she has described it throughout this thread, is the view of scripture that renders all of scripture most coherent. God is meeting people where they are when you see violent portraits of him. Also sometimes it's on the writer of the particular book or part of scripture, where they write from their particular view of God at that time. Take for example God enjoying the smell of burning flesh of animals during sacrifices. Is God enjoying the burning flesh of animals or is it the people who enjoy it so they think God does too? See you have to understand how to read these books. Also language changes over time. A very thorough understanding of Hebrew and of Aramaic is needed to interpret scripture correctly. And understanding of the Hebrew culture, God's chosen people, is necessary to understand how to interpret scripture to understand what's going on. Every genre of the Bible one needs to understand how to read. We're also reading ancient texts, and there's a need to understand culture as was said, what was going on at that time, how the people viewed the world. At one time people thought the dome above us, the sky, was a hard dome that could be cracked and it could fall down upon us, not understanding the atmosphere as we know it today because of what science has done for us. We don't take that part literally do we! So we have to really be careful. God is love. He can't be his anti-thesis. 1 Corinthians chapter 13 describes what love is, this is God. Everything that doesn't look like the sacrificial Jesus dying on a cross for his own people who utterly rejected him and hung him on the cross and the first place, and all people, who could deserve it less, is not from God. It's from someone else or something else. It's from the enemy. I've said in this thread somewhere else that Satan is the prince of this world according to scripture. Jesus when being tempted in the desert was brought before the kingdoms of the world and Satan told Jesus that he would give him all these kingdoms if Jesus bowed down and worshiped him. This tells us that the world we know then which was under Roman rule, and now which is our modern rule under all nations that carry the sword, are under the influence and power of Satan.
.. golly, I don't think I've ever offended a bean lover before .. 
