From: linan@argon.berkeley.edu (Mike Linan)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals
Subject: Biblical justification for eating animals
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:29:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Oct12.064617.3986@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> unglenie@ford.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J Unglenieks) writes:

>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*)

Nothing to really snicker about Rob.  You conveniently left out the next 
verse.  Since you went to the trouble of digging up these verses, could
it be that you also went to the trouble of leaving out verse 9 in an effort
to mislead?

Acts 11:9 - "But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath 
	     cleansed, THAT call not thou common."

Sort of missed that Rob.

>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)


No need to be sorry.  Hog farmers and those who do eat pork are doing no 
wrong as long as they ask God to bless and cleanse the meal they are about
to eat according to the New Testament.
God tell Peter to
>Leviticus 11:8 (RSV)   Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses 
>you shall not touch; they are unclean to you. 


>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, 


Leviticus as I mentioned is in the Old Testament.  You need to recognize the
difference from the New Testament.


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


I'm not sure what you mean or may be implying.


>So, what CAN we eat?


All animals that God has cleansed.


>-       Rob Unglenieks             REAL race cars DON'T wear BOWTIES       -


Mike Linan