is killing animals for food a sin against the commandment "you shall not kill?" Briefly explain?

Answer 1

No, it's a sin against the commandment given in "Genesis" that God ordered humans to only live on fruit, nuts and fruit ... even eating vegetables is a sin. Pretty well everything is a sin according to the Bible. Including wearing ankle bracelets and braiding your hair ...

Answer 2

Another "shallow Bible scholar." The commandment is about murder; an act of hatred. Killing in war can be the result of hatred, and it can be the result of self-defense. So, if someone breaks into your home, and is intent on murdering you and your family, you would allow them to do so, as to stop them by killing them in self defense violates what God wants you to do, is that right? You would stand there and watch your child be murdered because it would be wrong for you to intervene, risking killing the perpetrator. God just wants you to roll over and die instead of stopping this guy from ever murdering anyone else again. The ten commandments were the core of a covenant made between God and Israel. No one else was a party to that covenant. Furthermore, that covenant ended. There is a new covenant, and it is not like the old one. Read Jeremiah chapter 31 and Hebrews chapter 8. You are Russian? Your command of English is quite good. .

Answer 3

For food, no. It's simply fact that one animal will kill another for food. Consider the cow, human, and tiger. The human would eat the cow the same way the tiger would eat the human - instinct says you need food. It also reasons that killing another type of animal seems to make more sense than killing one of your own kind.

"Thou shall not kill" would more likely need evaluation concerning the death penalty and murder, etc... Things which have other possible resolutions and yet are committed for ease or another pointless feeling (7 sins - jealousy, greed, etc...).

Animals in general (obviously including humans) cannot avoid feeling hunger. There's a blood type - I can't remember which - that actually cannot go without meat. Thus, not all humans can be vegetarians.

Answer 4

No, it does not go against that commandment because that commandment is specifically talking about a human killing another human. THAT is murder, and THAT is what is strictly prohibited. Man is permitted to kill animals for food, if needed. That provision was made after Noah and his family left the ark when the floodwaters had receeded. God then permitted them to eat animals, but only after they had been properly drained of all of their blood.

Answer 5

"Commandments" as a form of "law" are a sin against the nature of man. The commandment may be based on logic and rationality, but the form of being "commanded" denies the free will which the "commander" has supposedly given us.
If you had asked your question when the commandments came down from the mountain, you might have been stoned to death as someone who was insane for disrespecting God's laws with ridicule, or with irony, or for anything they could perceive in your blasphemy.
Fortunately today, we are free from stoning when we ask questions with ridicule.

Answer 6

I think that if that commandment was to be written today it would be written "thou shalt not murder", which is what was meant I'm sure.
1. It is literally impossible for people to live without killing other living things. Everything you eat with the exception of salt, & a few minerals comes at the expense of another living thing.
2. In biblical times, it was common to sacrifice(and not to consume) animals for various reasons. There is no commandment 'thou shalt not sacrifice the lamb/goat/calf'

But i'm no biblical authority, so, perhaps i'm wrong.

Answer 7

Killing animal for food is to balance the world that is why God greated us to eat some of the things in the world.

Answer 8

Of course not.

The Law Covenant that stated your phrase also demanded animal sacrifices throughout the year. The Israelites were told how to bleed their animals properly so as to obey the edict that commanded this symbolic gesture of not eating the blood.

Answer 9

For living we kill lot of other animals and certainly its not sin.

When some one says killing these animals are sin - ask them whether they kill mosquitos and bugs or not.

When we get sick - its due to some microbes, we take medicin also to kill them.

When we sit on the chair lot of microscopic animals die with our presseure, so don't you sit on chair !

Answer 10

I would not say it is a sin ,rather we are just not in right relationship with our younger brethren who are along the same evolutionary journey as we are.Meat eating lowers the vibrational rate of our bodies and must be given up at some time in our spiritual development.