Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: for the above two comments

Just to clarify, I did NOT mean that the Bible says we HAVE to eat meat. That is a personal choice. I was just saying there are places in the Bible (Old Testament) where God was very specific about how to prepare meat and who should eat it, etc. He even provided the meat. I was trying to show that the Bible does not say it is wrong to eat meat (as a previous post implied about killing God's creatures...yes, everything in creation is God's...but that does not mean he did not intend for us to be able to eat animals). I was just trying to show examples of where they do eat meat...like the Passover:

"Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb [a] for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire�head, legs and inner parts. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover."

I know different rules applied in the Old Testament and today...after the ultimate sacrifice. But I still was just trying to point out that if God had intended that we should never eat meat there wouldn't be so many examples of it in the Bible. I did not mean to say that God commands us to eat meat. We just don't have to not eat meat.

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~Mary
Had surgery for rectal prolapse in Sept. '06 and feeling good now! Loving life with our IVF miracle #1.

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