is it right in this world to eat meat,when the bible clearly states thou shall not kill!!?

Answer 1

The Bible also says God gave us certain animals for consumption. The animal of cloven hoof are here for man to eat. Any other kind of animal eaten is considered an abomination. God also commanded people to give him sacrifices of lambs and other animals in the Old Testament. If your vegan I'm sorry, but that commandment and all of them are referring to the way God wants us to treat our fellow man. He also made us to be masters over all life.

Answer 2

The Bible says thou shalt not murder, not thou shalt not kill. Furthermore, the Bible also contains a passage where God tells Noah that he is clearly allowed to eat the tastier animals that he saved during the flood. As for the person who said that meat is eaten throughout the Bible that is actually false, until Noah eating meat is prohibited.

Answer 3

Good Question, I too hate the thought of eating meat, yet do so as I don't enjoy too many vegetables.
Animals, I am led to believe; are put on this world to be part of the food chain as a service to God, others are to serve in a maintenance capacity ie dust mites and such.

Animals are far more spiritualistic than humans and are freely able to sense spirit and to know that death is just one turn in the wheel of life. Of course they will try to flee when threatened, but then so will I, and I have been a spiritualist for years and know that death is a lie.

Best way if you can't give up meat is to do what the native american indians did - Give thanks to the animal's soul for providing meat for you and your family.
A prayer and a blessing are to a soul, what the very best feel good music is to you, brightening and lightening its day and helping it move closer to God.

You are not doing wrong by eating meat and by sending thanks and blessings to the animal's soul, you are turning an at best, unfortunate situation into a blessed one.

Love and Light
M

Answer 4

Well, go back to the Bible and search for the animal part and specially fish or sheeps.

Curiously animals are alive as people or vegetables, but you would ever think in executing a carrot or assesinating lettuces....would you?

The thing is that we do have to eat, and everytime a criature kills for eating, is not considered a crime unless is about a cannibal.

Sure, you can choose to become vegetarian, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, etc, but that decision is entirely up to you since the Bible is not asking Jewish or Christians to be vegetarians.
If you really want to eat without killing anything, then you have to eat mainly fruits, and check other sources to verify if eating rice does not mean the death of the plant. While malnourished, check that the vitamins your doctor will prescribe to you are not comming from animals as well.
Good luck, and remember that taking care of yourself is also important.

Answer 5

The bible also says abstaining from meat is wrong.
See 1 timothy.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

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I also find it interesting that it condemns celibacy:
hmm interesting.

BTW kill is obviously referred to humans,
In leviticus it sets forth which meats are clean
and which meats are not clean

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Israelites are children of the Lord Jehovah—Unclean beasts, fish, and fowl shall not be eaten—Israel shall tithe all the increase of their seed annually.
1 Ye are the achildren of the LORD your God: ye shall bnot ccut yourselves, nor make any baldness dbetween your eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art an aholy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a bpeculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3 ¶ Thou shalt not aeat any abominable thing.
4 These are the beasts which ye shall aeat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart, and the aroebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and acleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
9 ¶ These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
11 ¶ Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the aossifrage, and the ospray,
13 And the aglede, and the kite, and the bvulture after his kind,
14 And every raven after his kind,
15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the acuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the aswan,
17 And the pelican, and the agier eagle, and the cormorant,
18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the alapwing, and the bat.
19 And every acreeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat
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Also aside from this abstaining from animal products
completely leaves a person depleted for many amino
acids, B complex, EFAs, AND coenzyme Q10. None
of these are absorbed in substantial amounts
from purely vegetarian sources not to mention
our bodies are biologically omnivorous.

also I highly recommend the book, "The Secret Life
of PLants" i dont remember the author anymore
but you can google it. In the book this man does
research on plants and actually discovers plants
sense fear, and know when they are about to be
killed. Great read!

good luck : )

Answer 6

First, I really think the translation should be “Thou shall not MURDER”, the bible is full of killing. Second, I think that applies to people and not animals!

BE so glad you live in a time and place that you can choose what you eat and do not eat! Believe me, if you were really hungry you would eat just about anything!

Answer 7

The bible doesnt just state "thou shalt not kill" and mean all things. Jesus ate meat in the bible he was not a vegetarian and as all christians agree he was sinless, therefore making eating meat fine.

Also I want to touch on this because I had an american soldier in Iraq ask me once is he sinning when he shoots and kills the enemy. I had to ask my pastor on this because it is a hard question.

In the case of war, you are fighting for your country. The bible says you should not kill another human for selfish reasons. there are many times in the Old Testment when God ordered certain individuals to kill others, and they obeyed God because it was his will. They did not sin because they obeyed God. If you are fighting for your country (which is like protecting the citizens in that country) or protecting yourself or your children it is not a sin to kill someone who will do you harm.

Answer 8

It means, do not kill each other, although I myself am not saying I agree to everything it says in the bible, humans are omnivores (we eat meat and plants) we are built to eat meat, if we did not eat much meat at all we would become thin and it will take quite a while to heal wounds because of the lack of protein that you get from meat that vegetarians do not eat.

Answer 9

Will if you believe that the bible says soult not kill then how are you going to kill. If your a veggie/vegan then to eat you are killing a plants life and in that case your buggered. Then the rules there written it was meant to meant do not kill other humans. As later in the bible you will see food laws that tell you what animals you can or can't eat.

Answer 10

Go to the slaughterhouse and determine for yourself if the carnage there is a real Christian standard, remember the Bible has been translated from Hebrew to Greek to Latin then English and many of the principles and concepts have been distorted to favour the masses, who want to simply gratify there own tongues whilst retaining a sense of piety.

Answer 11

The bible is full of contradictions, so it's pretty daft to take it as a manual for living.

Quick example, one of the ten commandments is "Do not steal", yet in Deuteronomy 20:14 stealing is quite clearly condoned "As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies"