If God created us originally as vegetarians (and He did), why did He give us an appendix/?

Question

In the Garden, God gave humans the plants and fruit to eat, not animals. It was only after the "fall" that it was ok to eat meat.

Answer 1

Modern animals were "made after their kind." That is they were made after a pattern of similar animals that had existed previous. Likewise modern man was probably made after the pattern or DNA structure of pre-existing man. This was genetic engineering, interfering with evolution. Additionally modern man was made in the "image of God," that is having a spiritual nature.

Answer 2

A researcher recently figured out that if the appendix was active, we could process cellulose (plant/vegetable matter) like the herbivores do and could go without meat completely.

However, ever since the Flood, Man needs meat to survive.

In the beginning, both Man and animals were vegetarian;

Genesis 1:29-31

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.

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.

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.


But after the Flood, God allowed Man to eat meat;

Genesis 9:3-4

3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.


Hope this helps?

Answer 3

First of all, I don't know how you have the idea that we were created as vegetarians. Aside from the biological factors, many stories in the Bible reference slaughtering calves and other meats for feasts. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the appendix was used to aid in the digestion of vegetables. Currently, however, the appendix is considered a vestigial organ, having no function.

Answer 4

Recent research indicates that the the appendix may not be a vestigal organ after all. Some now believe that its purpose is to hold a reserve of beneficial bacteria if sickness should cause the intestines to be flushed. (not that god did it but why we have one, which would be very useful for breaking down plant matter).

Answer 5

Irish Gal on a Mission: it says in the bhagavad-gita (Song of God):

if one offers Me, with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water I will accept it.

So as you can see, it does not say to offer meat to God, therefore we should not eat meat.

And in the Bible, my memory is cloudy but I remember reading a passage where God "gave a plant for every human and animal on earth to consume". In teh beginning every living being was vegetarian, and nothing needed to eat one another to survive. Sorry the passage is vague, but you can google "vegetarian Bible quotes" and get some beter results :)

Answer 6

I am a Hindu and I eat meat. Vegetarian diet is very unhealthy, especially for men...How on earth is a man supposed to get the required amound of protein for spermatoza and testosterone development if he is not going to eat eat meat??? Guys who are vegetarian ostensibly tend to be smaller in stature, have a unsophisticated extent of muscular development and tend to be wimps :-)

Answer 7

Your appendix actually repopulates your intestines with helpful bacteria after they've been infected by something harmful. That wasn't a god's doing, though.

Answer 8

We can eat anything we like as long as it is edible.
There are many instances that the characters in the Old Testament eat meat. God never punished them.

Answer 9

The appendix has nothing to do with being vegetarian or not. He gave us a very long intestine like other vegetarian animals. He gave the carnivorous animals short intestines to get the toxins of the meat out fast. Humans where meant for being Vegetarian. If they eat animals they will then have to come back and reap the karma and be killed and eaten like they have done. One who eats meat supports animal slaughter and pollution and karma and suffering. Join me in being vegetarian and stopping this.

Answer 10

Well if this is true, the specie at the time now had to eat meat. Hence evolution comes to play...and we adapt to our environment----we developed an appendix. .This is what evolution is ...adaptation for survival. Not the monkey business these ignorant fools talk about.