Both humans and animals were created by the same Father, out of the same dust, and have the same "
breath of live" from the
Father:
Matthew 25:41 Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink;
43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44 “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘
Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these,
you did not do it to Me.’
passages leading to a gradual greater spiritual maturity in regards the eating of meat
Numbers 11:4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a
lusting: and the children of
Israel also
wept again, and said,
Who shall give us flesh to eat?
11 And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for
they weep unto me, saying,
Give us flesh, that we may eat.
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and
ye shall eat flesh: for
ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying,
Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore
the Lord will give you flesh,
and ye shall eat.
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
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But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you:
because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
33 And
while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed,
the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a
very great plague.
34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there
they buried the people that lusted.
I can tell you the same thing, I quoted Inspired Scripture too.
Jeremiah 8:8
How can you say, ‘We
are wise, And
the law of the LORD is with us’? Look,
the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.
Ezekiel 5:6 And
she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Malachi 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way;
ye have caused many to stumble at the law;
ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi,
saith the LORD of hosts.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, “See, I have given you every
herb that yields seed which
is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose
fruit yields seed; to you it
shall be for food.
Malachi 3:6 For
I am the Lord, I change not; [...]
Baruch 4:1 This is the book of
the commandments of God, and
the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but
such as leave it shall die.
I am against murder of animals, like sheep:
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to
kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and
the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
It is the thief that comes to kill, the Good sheperd gives His life for the sheep, doesn't kill the sheep. The wolf kills the sheep.
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