The average Christian believes animals have no soul and only humans do, the #1 excuse to justify making them commodities to control and kill.
People tell me that animals kill each other in nature but I say,
If a person is spiritual cleansed with the divine spirit or BORN again, why would they want to lower themselves to the level to be and act like a soul less animal ?
But eating plants kills too!
ok, but it brings a lot less violence into the world and that is a loving Christian's duty!
Christians you have a choice.
You say you LOVE His creation....
BUT when you sit down to eat,
do you really love all His creatures or only dogs, cats & horses?
You know animals are abused and treated like commodities!
do you care enough to stop purchasing their tortured flesh?
If you continue to purchase meat ...
how can you say you love God's creation ?
The Garden of Eden, God's perfect world = vegetarian
Gen. 1:29-30
Isn't the goal to get back to EDEN and paradise?
Read the Gospel of the Holy Twelve- Jesus mentions meat eating and hunting!
Unfortunately, We use religious dogma to justify
"Wars" killing for sport, fashion, business, eating or hunting
we justify violence "IN THE NAME OF GOD",
and torture IN The Name Of GOD.
"Your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven," the one prayer given to us by Jesus, this obligates us to change our lives, to make choices that are as merciful and loving as possible.
There will be no factory farms and slaughterhouses in the heavenly realm
“Do not be among winebibbers, gluttonous eaters of meat.”
Prov 23:20
Daniel wouldn't eat meat or drink wine!
We need to get back to EDEN = PARADISE on earth
where LOVE and MERCY rules
NOT profit from slaughter and DEATH
does your belly love them more than your heart ?
Are you fulfilling your appetites desires over what is right ??
Do you add to the level of violence, misery, and death in the world, all negative vibrations or do you respect creation with a vegetarian diet ?
Negative energy/vibrations are not LOVE it's the opposite of love ...
Jesus’ message
implies compassion toward all creation.
How can we justify the torture and slaughter of billions of animals each year for food? We don't NEED them for food, there are other sources.
And how can we tolerate such obvious cruelty in a religion whose founder preached mercy and compassion? Yet most modern churches reject vegetarianism with hardly a thought; vegetarianism is an idea which is at best tolerated, mocked and at worst condemned as heresy.
Every living being has a specific purpose for its existence. The purpose, definitely, is other than being killed and eaten by others.
Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna says sarva-yonishu kaunteya -BG, 14.4
BG 17.8--
Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to the heart.
God's ultimate plan for this world is a cessation of killing, an end to meat eating, the need for one animal to devour another in order to live, even the lion will eat straw.
http://www.powered-by-produce.com/dont-just-take-my-word-for-it/
“Though they offer choice sacrifices, though they eat flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins ...”
Hosea 8:13
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), inventor of the light-bulb:
“I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.”
Prophet Mohammed (570-632)
“A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th US President:
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Jewish-American author; Nobel Prize winner 1978:
“Where animals are concerned, everyone becomes a Nazi ... every day is Treblinka for the animals.”
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Croatian physicist and electric technician:
“Many races that live almost exclusively from vegetables exhibit an excellent physique and strength.”
Christian Saints
Peter said, "I live on olives and bread to which I rarely only add vegetables."
Clementine Homilies" 12,6; also see, Recognitions 7,6
Saint Clement of Alexandria.
Born 150 AD Saint Clement was a Greek Christian theologian and was said to be the most educated and philosophical of all the Christian fathers.
It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals.
Accordingly, the apostle Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without flesh.
The unnatural eating of flesh meats is as polluting as the heathen worship of devils, with its sacrifices and its impure feasts, through participation in it a man becomes a fellow eater with devils.
Sacrifices were invented by men to be a pretext for eating flesh.
"John never ate meat."
(Church historian Hegesipp according to Eusebius, "History of the Church" II 2:3)
"James, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine."
"Epistulae ad Faustum" XXII, 3
"Jacob, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine."
Epistulae ad Faustum XXII, 3
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
St. Francis of Assisi.
The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.
St Jerome
God's ultimate plan for this world is a cessation of killing, an end to meat eating, the need for one animal to devour another in order to live, even the lion will eat straw.
http://www.donoteatus.org/Hidden_Love_of_Jesus_For_The_Animals_Layout.htm
READ THE FORGOTTEN GOSPELS ....Sources:
“The Gospel of Jesus,” Verlag DAS WORT, Rottweil 1986
“The Gospel of Perfect Life,” Humata Verlag, Bad Homburg
“The Forgotten Gospel” Christianity and Animal Protection Fachverlag für Tierschutz, Munich
“This Is My Word,” Verlag DAS WORT, Marktheidenfeld, Germany 1996