For Wednesday Night, November 16^th   …  the Wednesday Night before Thanksgiving week – we will be discussing whether or not it is sinful for Christians to eat meat. It has come to our attention that there is a group of Christians who believe it is wrong to kill and eat animals.

      The Christian Vegetarian Association makes the case from the Bible “that God the Creator willed a peaceable creation for all creatures represented in Genesis by the original command to be vegetarian (Gen. 1:29-30)… and that the prophets witness to a time when this Kingdom will be fulfilled as Isaiah says “the lion will lie down with the calf … they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain” (Isa. 11: 1-9)…  and that the Spirit of Jesus moves in our hearts to recognise the suffering and travail of the entire creation (Rom. 8: 18-24) and to minister to other creatures as Christ has ministered to us…  In recognition of these beliefs, we seek to become signs of the peaceable Kingdom by living as far as possible non-violently with other creatures… We anticipate the coming Kingdom by adopting now the diet of the age to come and living as ethical vegetarians.”

      The Christian Vegetarian Association website also lists the many benefits of keeping Gods commandment to be vegetarian which includes improvements to our health, improvements to our environment, and the reduction of starvation of people around the world. They also point out that Proverbs 12:10 says  “The righteous man has regard for the life of his beast”   and then they describe the miserable conditions that many commerical farm animals live in until they are taken for slaughter.

      So –  before we gather around the Thanksgiving Table loaded with Ham and Turkey and a variety of other animal by products, let’s open our Bibles and do some research and make sure we are not violating the Commandments of our Lord by what we eat.      

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