Is God a vegetarian?

[PrchJrkr]

Originally Posted by Toxick

What th...

Did you just say something about my mother?



NO CHNESE TLAKING IN HERE PLZ!

Sorry. It's Arabic for JPC, Sr.

[ItalianScallion (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vegmom

WTF....
I've had the "bible tells you to eat meat" tale fed to me every Thanksgiving by my Southern Baptist family.

Southern Baptists shouldn't say WTF

Originally Posted by vegmom

The Bible neither commands nor forbids eating meat. The Bible (OT) does forbid eating unclean animals of any sort, so I can see many veggies viewing what is in the grocery store today as unclean.
But is God vegetarian? As others have stated - that question is a bit redundant since God has no need for food (although I personally believe he makes an exception for chocolate).

You are correct vegmom. God could care less if we eat meat or not. Even the OT laws of clean & unclean foods are also gone. (Mark 7 v 18,19)(Acts 10 v 9)(Romans 14) & (1 Timothy 4 v 3-5). We can learn from the OT, however, in that some of the foods that were called unclean are REALLY not good for us, so we shouldn't eat them but God will allow it if we want to.

[Drummerob]

Originally Posted by vegmom

WTF....

The reason I and many others are vegetarians is because we don't agree with modern factory farming methods and their disaterous effects on our health, economy, and environment- not to mention it's downright cruel to raise animals like that.

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This I accept and agree with. This statement is quite fair.

Now, VegMom, I would like to know your point of view of someone going out into the woods and hunting a steroid free deer as a source of food for their family is.

Going out in to the woods and killing a deer for "sport" means killing and letting it lay there and not intending to put in the belly, that's sport hunting.

The reason I said, "Is God a Vegetarian", was simple. No one ever says, Jesus' Little Creatures, It's always "God's Little Creatures". We know Jesus ate meat, that's a given. However, God is the one clearly stating go forth and eat the deer.

The point I am making to people is, why do others always have to make the argument, "It's a sin to kill God's little creatures", when God straight up said it's all good? As I said before, those people are simply hiding behind a "name" (God), to make others fear what they believe personally, they are not presenting the honest facts when they do this, and that is what makes them look quite uneducated in the public eye.

For example, has anyone here been following the letters to the editor in the Maryland Independent about the dude, Steve Brennan, who writes the same letter every year about this time, you sorta come to expect a new letter from him every September or October, ? It's a shame that fella had to make an a$$ of himself in front of all the readers for making comments with no facts to back him up, basically this guy is just babbling, might have had too much wine and not enough bread that day and got bored. And, I assure you there were a lot of people on that mans side until they said they finished reading the whole letter, then they started to worry about the poor guy. Yes, these were non-church-goers and fully religious folks as well.

[vegmom]

Originally Posted by ItalianScallion

Southern Baptists shouldn't say WTF

It stands for "What The Ford"- used most often when a car stalls.

[vegmom]

Originally Posted by ItalianScallion

You are correct vegmom. God could care less if we eat meat or not. Even the OT laws of clean & unclean foods are also gone. (Mark 7 v 18,19)(Acts 10 v 9)(Romans 14) & (1 Timothy 4 v 3-5). We can learn from the OT, however, in that some of the foods that were called unclean are REALLY not good for us, so we shouldn't eat them but God will allow it if we want to.

I take the OT dietary laws as a "guide to keep yourself from becoming horribly sick from eating this stuff".

I doubt a BLT would have appealed to me any more in Biblical times than it does now.

[vraiblonde]

God did not invent the grill or the smoker. Man did. Therefore God did not eat meat.

[vraiblonde]

Although he probably does now that the grill and the smoker have been invented.

[ItalianScallion (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vegmom

It stands for "What The Ford"- used most often when a car stalls.

Especially a Ford!

[JPC sr]

Originally Posted by PsyOps

What does any of this have to do with salvation?

Not eating animals has nothing to do with salvation.

It has much to do with a person's character in the present now.

[PsyOps]

Originally Posted by JPC sr

Not eating animals has nothing to do with salvation.

It has much to do with a person's character in the present now.

Ummm... okie dokie.