From: unglenie@ford.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J Unglenieks)
Subject: Re: Don't tell the Anti-Hunters
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:46:17 GMT

>Russell Lawrence writes:
>>Is there a passage in the New Testament where God says that it's
>>ok for you to hunt deer with high-powered rifles?  Or raise chickens
>>in tiny, tiny coops?  Or use chimps in medical experiments?

mary.rita.otto writes:
>The New Testament on the subject of animals:
>I Corinthians 15:39 "All flesh is not the same:  men have one kind of
>                     flesh, animals have another, birds another, 
>                    and fish another."

You need to put the rest in here.  Isn't it really about resurrection?

1 Corinthians 15:35 (RSV)   But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? 
With what kind of body do they come?" 
1 Corinthians 15:36 (RSV)   You foolish man! What you sow does not come to 
life unless it dies. 
1 Corinthians 15:37 (RSV)   And what you sow is not the body which is to be, 
but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 
1 Corinthians 15:38 (RSV)   But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to 
each kind of seed its own body. 
1 Corinthians 15:39 (RSV)   For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind 
for men, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 


>Jude 1:10 - "And what things they do understand by instinct by
>             UNREASONING ANIMALS - these are the very things that
>             destroy them."  (emphasis mine)

Or how about....

Jude 1:8 (RSV)   Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the 
flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones. 
Jude 1:9 (RSV)   But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, 
disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling 
judgment upon him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." 
Jude 1:10 (RSV)   But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by 
those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are 
destroyed. 

Revised standard calls them "irrational".  Also note, that those that
"revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things ... they are
 destroyed."
  

>Acts 11:6 - "I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth,
>             wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.  Then I heard
>             a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter.  KILL AND EAT."
>             (Emphasis mine.  *Snicker*)

Acts 11:7 (RSV)   And I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter; kill and 
eat.' 
Acts 11:8 (RSV)   But I said, 'No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has 
ever entered my mouth.' 
        (*snicker snicker*)


So what does the bible say of our food.....?

Leviticus 11:3 (RSV)   Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews 
the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 
Leviticus 11:7 (RSV)   And the swine, because it parts the hoof and is 
cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. 

(Sorry hog farmers)

Leviticus 11:8 (RSV)   Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses 
you shall not touch; they are unclean to you. 

(guess that does in pigskin leather too)

Leviticus 11:27 (RSV)   And all that go on their paws, among the animals that 
go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be 
unclean until the evening, 

(what does this say of some of our "game" animals?)

Leviticus 22:25 (RSV)   neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any 
such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, 
because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you." 

(so much for importing meat)

So, what CAN we eat?

Genesis 1:29 (RSV)   And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant 
yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with 
seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 
Genesis 1:30 (RSV)   And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the 
air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the 
breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. 

Rob U, how can I concentrate on this with Clinton making a fool of himself
       on C-Span?
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