Are you a Vegan AND a Christian?

Question

And if so, do you think that one has to do with the other?
Just curious.

Answer 1

uumm.....ok.... do u eat apples & like eating oranges? If so do u think one has to do with the other??

As for mister ricks answer....thats just dumb! being vegan or vegetarian isnt a belief in another religion! The bible also says thou shalt not kill! So maybe being vegan or vegetarian makes a person more christian? LMAO

Answer 2

I am Christian and pescatarian (eat fish flesh only). Im trying so hard to be a full vegan. lol. My boyfriend is helping!
1. Eden was perfect - no meat eating there. 2. Some people say Jesus ate flesh but hold on...I never did Bible study, but when I started learning how Greek words and translations are important and can turn a sentence around totally..I got my ans. 3. I used to cook alot of beef and chicken -ALOT every single day! but dont you just go eww!.. watching the blood run out of the bone in the pot...then you eat all that blood and crave the taste, you get addicted to it, I just couldnt stop if I want to (denial I guess)....
So...Its better to eat vegetables, grains and fruits. Gen 3: 17-19. Besides, I'm a Biolgist, and scientifically, flesh really reduces us mentally and physically. I realized my body is not mine (many people today think otherise)..Its Christ's.
So I'm not going to search the bible to find a reason to eat flesh, instead I'll search for reason not to eat it.- there are several!
PS.: I think people who eat flesh are definately going to Heaven, just dont use that as an excuse to eat flesh.

Answer 3

I'm a Christian, but I still eat meat. So, no I'm not a Vegan. However I DO believe animal cruelty is wrong (torture that is).

Oh and just because you're a vegan doesn't mean you're more Christian than another.

Answer 4

YES I am both.
I do not believe God made us flesh eaters. I was a Christian long before I came to this view. Given the studies on Human health as Vegetarians, Vegans & Raw Vegans & the massive postives those lifestyles show in health. Plus there are some quotes in the Bible that lead one to beleive we were meant to eat Veggies & Fruits. The Flood was the time humans were given permission to eat meat. Biggie here, humans bodies did not get changed at that time. So we still do best with the 1st diet of the garden.

Answer 5

I'm both! I don't really connect the two, as Christianity is my faith and it's who I am, and vegan is how I choose to eat. I feel that both give me a certain peace in different ways. I've had some Christians argue that God gave us animals to eat, and I'm being disrespectful....it's a bit of a piss off when people are like that, but we've all got our opinions.

Answer 6

I'm vegan and a buddhist, but the Bible does tell Christians to be vegan in Genesis 1:29:
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. "To every beast ... I have given every green herb for meat"
1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

UPDATE: to person below: don't forget to finish your verse:
Gen 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Answer 7

I'm very much Christian. I am vegetarian, but not totally vegan, mostly because I just can't give up certain things (Cheese, etc..) Hopefully soon, because I think Veganism is even better.

Anyway, most all of my associates are Christian Vegetarians, most of them vegans. Here's the link for us:

We consider that our body is the temple of God. In the Bible it is VERY obvious that God does NOT require vegetarianism. However, today animals are raised and harvested in such a way that makes meat pretty much unsafe for human consumption. There is so much disease, hormones, etc. Most Americans consume WAY more protien than is healthy for their body, causing health problems. My associates and I DO believe that God requires us to take care of our body and health. For us, that means giving up meat and other animal products simply because it is practically unsafe to eat them. Just look at the cancer statistics.

Also, yes, I do believe that God originally intended for us to eat a vegetarian diet (read the story of creation and the Garden of Eden before Adam sinned) I love the verses the person above me gave. I do believe that in heaven all animals will be vegetarian. There will be no more death. So why NOT enhance my health Here and NOW By eating a vegetarian diet?

Back in the day, when Jesus was around, the conditions were very different, and meat wasn't nearly as diseased. THus it was safe to eat (and they probably didn't eat as much as Americans do now), and Jesus himself ate it (well, at the VERY least we KNOW he served fish to others, if not eating it himself, but it's implied that he ate it too). I wonder if he would eat meat now, though. (BTW because of pollution, mercury, and phisteria (mad fish disease), fish isn't safe to eat today either).

God put us over the animals, to dominate them. This means they are for our use, BUT AT THE SAME TIME we have an almost parent-like responisbility to treat them well and humanely. THe conditions in which animals are raised for meat today cause an ethical problem for me to eat meat, aside from the health issue.

That's my take on it, as well as many Christians I know.

Peace, Love, and Tofu (3 things the world needs).

P.S. The person was correct when they said that the time of the flood was when mankind was first specifically given permission by God to eat meat. If you do a chronology study on the Godly people (Adam's decendents-Noah then Noah's immediate decendents) and their incredible lifespans, you will see a dramatic drop after the flood. (600 years- 120 or so VERY quickly) INteresting, huh? I'm sure there could be several reasons for this, but I really believe meat consumption was one of them. I'm not saying it's a concrete, hole-free argument, but I think there's SOMETHING to it.

Answer 8

No, I'm not a Vegan.

I don't think they are mutually exclusive, though, it is possible to be both.

The prophet Isaiah wrote of a time where even a carnivore will live at peace with its prey.

Isa 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Isa 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

Answer 9

Yes I think they do. I am a Christian and a vegetarian.

The overwhelming theme of Jesus' teaching was love, mercy, compassion, justice. These principles do not exist on the hunting fields or in the slaughterhouse.

Answer 10

Yes to vegan and no to Christian or any other organized religion.