@DanielLL
i want to reiterate, i am very close to becoming a vegetarian myself. if not for my family's habits i would myself abstain, but i have no wish to impose my personal emotions on them. we will all be vegetarian in the resurrection, and that's OK.
i believe all animals apart from man are sinless yet under the frustration of the cursing of the ground for Adam's sake. that they are living souls just as we are, and that they do not experience physical death because of any fault of their own, but for our benefit.
my beloved fluffalupagus is dying as i type this. i am spending half my time lying on the floor stroking him as he breathes his last breaths and half my time in here thinking and typing. i know we will be reunited in heaven. he eats birds and fish, and he is not at fault for doing so -- in heaven he will not. i know his soul will live forever.
this is not about whether i think it is wrong to abstain from meat or that i disagree it is a sin to wantonly kill animals as though they do not have a soul or as though their blood isn't innocent.
this is about the key doctrine you are presenting, friend. your doctrine is not compatible with scripture - it either accuses God of murder, or accuses the scripture of being worthless and full of lies.
that's a problem -- and the obvious solution is that you are not correctly interpreting what you read. you need to ask why does God do this, instead of presuming God's book is untrue.
just my opinion, as always
i want to reiterate, i am very close to becoming a vegetarian myself. if not for my family's habits i would myself abstain, but i have no wish to impose my personal emotions on them. we will all be vegetarian in the resurrection, and that's OK.
i believe all animals apart from man are sinless yet under the frustration of the cursing of the ground for Adam's sake. that they are living souls just as we are, and that they do not experience physical death because of any fault of their own, but for our benefit.
my beloved fluffalupagus is dying as i type this. i am spending half my time lying on the floor stroking him as he breathes his last breaths and half my time in here thinking and typing. i know we will be reunited in heaven. he eats birds and fish, and he is not at fault for doing so -- in heaven he will not. i know his soul will live forever.
this is not about whether i think it is wrong to abstain from meat or that i disagree it is a sin to wantonly kill animals as though they do not have a soul or as though their blood isn't innocent.
this is about the key doctrine you are presenting, friend. your doctrine is not compatible with scripture - it either accuses God of murder, or accuses the scripture of being worthless and full of lies.
that's a problem -- and the obvious solution is that you are not correctly interpreting what you read. you need to ask why does God do this, instead of presuming God's book is untrue.
just my opinion, as always
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