(Sorry for the off topic post, folks, but I didn't want this post from earlier to go unanswered)
Genesis 9:3
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
That verse kind of blows your theory, doesn't it?
No, it doesn't.
We were talking about God's
perfect will, not what God gave us over to because of our hardened hearts in this fallen world.
To see the context of that verse you posted, we need to go to the previous chapter, and look at Genesis 8:21. The pertinent part I put in bold.
“Never again will I curse the ground because of humans,
even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood."
God is acknowledging that humans are inclined toward evil, and it appears He is basically giving us over to our evil desires, and stating the consequences. (animals will fear us, as he says in Gen 9:2)
As was posted before, God doesn't change. We can see from how God created the world in the first place and said it was "very good" (see Genesis 1, especially verses 29-31) and that he's going to restore that Edenic world in the future, that His perfect will is peace and harmony among all creation.
And since God does not change, it is very wrong to assume in Genesis 9 that all of a sudden God doesn't care about the animals and
wants us to engage in needless violence and exploitation and brutal killing, just to satisfy our own desires. That is not what God wants, according to the scriptures He wants the opposite. Throughout the Bible there are tons and tons of scriptures about mercy. THAT is what God wants from us, for us to be merciful to those below us, just as God is merciful to us who are below Him. And to show the type of love that God shows to us, which is a selfless love, kindness, gentleness and a genuine caring for the well-being of those who were entrusted to us.
I don't want to be repetitive but the important point, again, is that God's perfect will is peace and harmony among all creation, as shown in very beginning and also in the prophetic scriptures about the future Edenic world that will be restored one day when Jesus returns.
And I don't know if you're a Christian (if you're not then what I'm about to say wouldn't apply to you) but if Christians have a choice between honoring God's perfect will and what He wants from us, which is mercy... OR what God might permit in this fallen world due to our evil inclinations...we are supposed to aim for the former, not the latter.
This is what the bible says the world is going to go back to, in the future, when Jesus returns:
The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the goat.
The calf, the young lion, and the fatling will be together,
and a child will lead them.
The cow and the bear will graze,
their young ones will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit,
and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.
None will harm or destroy another
on My entire holy mountain,
for the land will be as full
of the knowledge of the Lord
as the sea is filled with water.
Isaiah 11:6-9