Bible quotes support meat eating?

January 28, 2005

I still find it ridiculous the way that some

Christians use the bible to condone acts that they

want to continue to participate in, and ignore the

parts that conflict with their life choices. How many

Christians who justify meat eating by saying the bible

says its ok eat pork, lamb, and seafood, which is

banned by the old testament? Lets remind those bible

quoting Christians who claim to take all words of the

bible literally in an effort to justify thier

behaviors some other things that the bible says that

God condones:

Marriage shall consist of a union between one man and

one or more women .

That is from Genesis 29:17-28.

Secondly, marriage shall not impede a man's right to

take concubines in

addition to his wife or wives . That is II Samuel 5:13

and II Chronicles

11:21.

A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife

is a virgin . If the

wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed . That is

Deuteronomy 22:13.

And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be

clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is

unclean to you. (Lev. 11:7)

And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and

in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of

any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be

an abomination unto you. (Lev. 11:10)

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a

man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for

all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

(Deut. 22:5)

: " If a woman does not cover her head, she should

have her hair cut off. " (1 Cor. 11:6)

Deuteronomy 21

18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which

will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of

his mother, and that, when they have chastened him,

will not hearken unto them:

19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on

him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city,

and unto the gate of his place;

20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city,

This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not

obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with

stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from

among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

In the bible, slavery is ok, selling your daughter,

stoning people, etc. etc. etc.

I don't want to insult any Christians out there, just

want to bring up the fact that obviously you can't

take the bible 100% literally and that obviously many

things condoned in the bible have since been decided

are cruel and outdated (stoning, slavery, etc.)

February 1, 2005

Wow, I never knew about those quotes! (I am not the most knowlegeable about

the Bible, though.)

Thanks for doing some research.

--Tracy

February 1, 2005

As a Christian, I am not at all offended. In fact, I agree with you 100%. It's

important to take things in context however, and there are plenty of references

to kindness toward animals, not to mention the fact that God's ideal is that we

eat no meat (in the Genesis account of Eden, and in Isaiah- I think it is Ch.

52, describing the perfect world of end-times). The meat-eating was only allowed

later as a concession to a fallen world, not as a command. Connie has some great

references at http://www.healthymomshealthyfamilies.com/

Bonnie