Please help me with bible contradictions regarding animals!?

Question

Hello, I have a friend who quotes 'animals are there to be used by humans', when asked why she feels this way - she says it says so in the bible.... does it REALLY? Considering we are 98 per cent the same DNA as a chimp, we are animal, animals can be human - surely we should respect all living things. Please help! I'm confused! Many thanks.

Answer 1

The Bible is filled with contradictions, absurdities, irrationalities etc.. Do yourself a favor and don`t take it seriously. As for animals. Yes, we are animals as well. But all animals are apart of this thing they called the food chain. We`re at the top. There`s nothing wrong with humans eating animals. When we die maggots feed on our flesh. And thus the cycle continues.

Answer 2

It proves that the bible is not made via God however via mistaken people. But see -- we feel that the ones are precise some thing they let us know. Like essentially the most usual false impression: in which Christ was once born. That's the best query to grasp the reliability of the Bible. Or the Sermon at the Mount vs. the Sermon at the Plain. they each are contradicting narratives BUT just for factors, rather illogical however with a deeper which means. Like this: Jesus being born in a manger: Humility Jesus being born in a residence: Being any one who participated a human pastime of being born. Jesus at the Mount: authority over the persons. Jesus at the Plain: equality with the persons. Also, do not appear on the Bible as a historic textbook. It is an overly colossal tale e-book, compiled a long time and a long time till now to inform a exact tale of a God.

Answer 3

The Bible tells us that humans are "made in the image of God". In the Garden of Eden, God instructs Adam only in the eating of plants. However, by the time of Cain and Abel they were eating meat. When Moses comes along, God instructs Moses on what animals are "clean" for eating and what animals were "unclean". These rules are still followed by Jews and Muslims. By the time of the New Testament, Peter is given visions and instructions that Jesus has made all things clean. So there was no prohibitions on eating things like pork.

Regarding our DNA, it shows that all living things are connected. We share DNA with plants, animals and even bacteria. So should we all become Buddhists? No, nature tells us that animals eat plants, animals eat animals.. its part of the cycle of life. It is natural to eat animals. We are still to be good stewards of God, caring and respecting all creation. Just because animals are to be used by humans doesn't mean we don't show respect for nature.

Answer 4

The next time your friend says this ask her just where in the Bible you can find it. If she's so sure about her Bible, she should be able to give you "chapter and verse". If she can't come up with an answer, then don't bring this subject up with her again.

Answer 5

I saw your wuestion and thought you would have quotes from the bible to explain instead you have "freinds said" what gives" Get the real picture be doing some reading. there is much misinterpreted, but the word is good if you read it all and do not take each little line out of context.

Answer 6

God created you and all animals. We share DNA with animals because God chose a common method of design. There is no evidence in nature for the notion of evolution in the 'monkey to man' sense. Eat up!

Answer 7

It was only by the authority of the Catholic Church, which collected the various books of Scripture in the fourth century, that we have a Christian Bible at all. And it is only because of the Church that the Bible survived and was taught for the many centuries before the printing press made it widely available.


John Wycliff had produced a translation of the Bible, that was corrupt and full of heresy. It was not an accurate rendering of sacred Scripture.

Both the Church and the secular authorities condemned it and did their best to prevent it from being used to teach false doctrine and morals. Because of the scandal it caused, the Synod of Oxford passed a law in 1408 that prevented any unauthorized translation of the Bible into English and also forbade the reading of such unauthorized translations.

Tyndale was an English priest of no great fame who desperately desired to make his own English translation of the Bible. The Church denied him for several reasons.

First, it saw no real need for a new English translation of the Scriptures at this time. In fact, booksellers were having a hard time selling the print editions of the Bible that they already had. Sumptuary laws had to be enacted to force people into buying them.

Second, we must remember that this was a time of great strife and confusion for the Church in Europe. The Reformation had turned the continent into a very volatile place. So far, England had managed to remain relatively unscathed, and the Church wanted to keep it that way. It was thought that adding a new English translation at this time would only add confusion and distraction where focus was needed.

Lastly, if the Church had decided to provide a new English translation of Scripture, Tyndale would not have been the man chosen to do it. He was known as only a mediocre scholar and had gained a reputation as a priest of unorthodox opinions and a violent temper. He was infamous for insulting the clergy, from the pope down to the friars and monks, and had a genuine contempt for Church authority. In fact, he was first tried for heresy in 1522, three years before his translation of the New Testament was printed. His own bishop in London would not support him in this cause.

Finding no support for his translation from his bishop, he left England and came to Worms, where he fell under the influence of Martin Luther. There in 1525 he produced a translation of the New Testament that was swarming with textual corruption. He willfully mistranslated entire passages of Sacred Scripture in order to condemn orthodox Catholic doctrine and support the new Lutheran ideas. The Bishop of London claimed that he could count over 2,000 errors in the volume (and this was just the New Testament).

And we must remember that this was not merely a translation of Scripture. His text included a prologue and notes that were so full of contempt for the Catholic Church and the clergy that no one could mistake his obvious agenda and prejudice. Did the Catholic Church condemn this version of the Bible? Of course it did.

The secular authorities condemned it as well. Anglicans are among the many today who laud Tyndale as the "father of the English Bible." But it was their own founder, King Henry VIII, who in 1531 declared that "the translation of the Scripture corrupted by William Tyndale should be utterly expelled, rejected, and put away out of the hands of the people."

So troublesome did Tyndale’s Bible prove to be that in 1543—after his break with Rome—Henry again decreed that "all manner of books of the Old and New Testament in English, being of the crafty, false, and untrue translation of Tyndale . . . shall be clearly and utterly abolished, extinguished, and forbidden to be kept or used in this realm."

Ultimately, it was the secular authorities that proved to be the end for Tyndale. He was arrested and tried (and sentenced to die) in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1536. His translation of the Bible was heretical because it contained heretical ideas—not because the act of translation was heretical in and of itself. In fact, the Catholic Church would produce a translation of the Bible into English a few years later (The Douay-Reims version, whose New Testament was released in 1582 and whose Old Testament was released in 1609).

When discussing the history of Biblical translations, it is very common for people to toss around names like Tyndale and Wycliff. But the full story is seldom given. This present case of a gender-inclusive edition of the Bible is a wonderful opportunity for Fundamentalists to reflect and realize that the reason they don’t approve of this new translation is the same reason that the Catholic Church did not approve of Tyndale’s or Wycliff’s. These are corrupt translations, made with an agenda, and not accurate renderings of sacred Scripture.

And here at least Fundamentalists and Catholics are in ready agreement: Don’t mess with the Word of God.

Answer 8

Genesis 1:28

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
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Answer 9

A book is a book... and you are a child of God.

Follow your own heart and don't worry about what other people say.

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