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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
Do you live in a house? If you do, and you want to live in harmony with all of God's creatures, you really should tear down that house and restore the land back to what it was before men came here. In fact, you should be working hard to have all of the houses, building, roads and bridges destroyed and have things returned to the way they were.
Millions of these obnoxious creatures were killed in the construction of everything we have. I wouldn't call that living in harmony with God's creatures.
If you don't believe that man is superior to all other animals and has the God given right to used them as he sees fit, then you have to be a bit hypocritical to live in a house or drive a car or play golf.
From the beginning of time, man used other animals for food, shelter and clothing. I was taught that this is part of nature and that God put those animals here for our use.
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I think if you read Genesis 1 again you will see that while God gives us rule over the animals in verse 28, that is very different than permission to eat them. In the very next verse it sures sounds like he wants us to be vegetarians.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
So, if you use the Bible as your moral authority, you have to use it all I would think.