Was Jesus a Vegetarian?

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:) Sorry, I know that Roasting meat is a pleasing aroma to the Lord. And the Lord is One. The pope is nothing to me. Why would Jesus multiply Fish if he was opposed?
 
Waterfall said:
If Jesus was a vegetarian, would you still follow Jesus and change? Give up your barbeque? Even if the Pope said it was okay to eat meat?
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Even if it could be proved that Jesus was a vegetarian - and it can't - Jesus doesn't command vegetarianism from his followers.
 
Pontifex Geronimo 13 said:
:) Sorry, I know that Roasting meat is a pleasing aroma to the Lord. And the Lord is One. The pope is nothing to me. Why would Jesus multiply Fish if he was opposed?
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Sorry I thought you were RC......why is Jesus associated with Fish as a symbol? There are many theories about what the fish symbolizes in Christianity....what do you think it's associated with?
 
revsdd said:
Even if it could be proved that Jesus was a vegetarian - and it can't - Jesus doesn't command vegetarianism from his followers.
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Are you aware that some were?

Hegasuppus and Augustine testify that James the Just (Jesus' brother)was vegetarian and raised as one.

According to Clement of Alexandria, Mathew was a vegetarian.
Clementines "Homilies" and "Recognitions" claimed Peter was a vegetarian.
 
Waterfall said:
Sorry I thought you were RC......why is Jesus associated with Fish as a symbol? There are many theories about what the fish symbolizes in Christianity....what do you think it's associated with?
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Reminder of Christians being fishers of men.

When I see a fish on a car, I think evangelist.
When I see a Darwin fish, I think rebellion or atheist.
I have tracts in my car that I put on Darwin fish vehicles in parking lots.
 
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I think there is something to this Jesus being a vegetarian. He is referred to as the lamb of God. He talks about feeding his sheep. He wanted his followers to eat his flesh and drink his blood. When you think of it if he was a lamb he was probably pretty tasty. No wonder he wanted to be eaten. Gives the idea of lamb chops a new meaning or even Jesus chops for that matter.:eek:
 
dreamerman said:
I think there is something to this Jesus being a vegetarian. He is referred to as the lamb of God. He talks about feeding his sheep. He wanted his followers to eat his flesh and drink his blood. When you think of it if he was a lamb he was probably pretty tasty. No wonder he wanted to be eaten. Gives the idea of lamb chops a new meaning or even Jesus chops for that matter.:eek:
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Hm... I don't know about "tasty," but vivifying, that's for sure. (y)
 
Suffice it to say, I remain thoroughly unconvinced of Jesus' vegetarianism. The evidence is largely based on reading the text a certain way and I do not think most people read it that way.


revsdd said:
That is the only food offered by God to Adam and Eve. No mention of animals being food prior to the fall.
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Fair enough, but it's moot for me since I'm not a Creationist. We know that chimps eat meat which likely means our early ancestors did, too. Certainly the evidence for meat eating among hominins can be found fairly early on (2.6 million years per the link below).

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273
 
Mendalla said:
Fair enough, but it's moot for me since I'm not a Creationist. We know that chimps eat meat which likely means our early ancestors did, too. Certainly the evidence for meat eating among hominins can be found fairly early on (2.6 million years per the link below).

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273
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I'm not a creationist, either, but you did ask for a verse saying that Adam and Eve were vegetarians.
 
revsdd said:
I'm not a creationist, either, but you did ask for a verse saying that Adam and Eve were vegetarians.
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well maybe in those days, it was cheaper to be a vegetarian, Jesus did say the end times will be like that of Noah's days

have you seen the price of meat lately !!!
 
Mendalla said:
We know that chimps eat meat which likely means our early ancestors did, too. Certainly the evidence for meat eating among hominins can be found fairly early on (2.6 million years per the link below).

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273
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Continuing on with this discussion, one could counter with:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/

If we go with the "human ancestors were vegetarians" theory, then a part of the biblical fall was the start of killing animals for food. Mind you, scientifically, that was probably just an evolutionary development, and I've seen it suggested that in fact eating meat was an essential part of the fairly rapid evolution from pre and early human to modern human - it was the extra protein in the meat that caused rapid brain development.
 
Consider Genesis 9:3-4
This is where God gives permission to eat meat AFTER THE FLOOD, some say it was to be temporary.
BUT they were not permitted to eat carnivores, only herbivores, and we see this even today in the Jewish diet. Carnivores are considered unclean, herbivores are clean.
This diet was supposed to help when there would come a time that eating meat was no longer
required. God knew after tasting meat it would be hard to give up.

Perhaps after the flood vegetation was limited?

In Genesis 8, God tells Noah and his sons,"I give you every animal for food, just as I gave the green plants, but don't eat the blood. I will require the blood from human and from animal, who spills the blood."

The animals that don't eat blood are considered clean animals within the Jewish diet.
 
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