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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill

Methusaleh: The longest lived man in Bible was a vegetarian and achieved 969 years.
Proverbs: Be not among the wine-bibbers nor the riotous eaters of animal flesh.
Matthew: What did Jesus call those who eat animals? The King James translates it as `whited sepulchres`. The Greek word translated is sarcophagi (flesh) phagi eaters.
Genesis: Behold I have given you herb yielding seed. To you it shall be for food.
Genesis: Flesh shall ye not eat.
Jesus: Feed The Hungry (With 6 billion people in God`s world, we must now choose His food systems: Fruit orchards yield 450,000 lbs. per acre. Slaughterhouses yield 100 to 1000 lbs. an acre.
Daniel 1: Daniel was a vegetarian for 10 days in the king`s prison.
Isaiah 65: The lion shall lie down with the lamb.. they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.
Psalm 104: God made the whale to frolic in the sea (not to be slaughtered by the US, JAPAN, NORWAY and ICELAND govts.)
Isaiah 66: 3: He that slays an ox is as he that slays a man.
Acts 15: Do not eat the flesh of strangled animals.
Peter`s Vision of animals in a cage, said Peter himself, related to reaching out to the Gentile world, not seeing Gentiles as unclean.
Acts 18: 18 Paul says that he has taken a private vow. Many scholars believe it was the same vow taken by Samson.. a promise to God not to eat the flesh of innocent animals nor to cut his hair.
The 5th Angel of Revelation: Harm no green living plant.
Isaiah 42: Break not the bruised reed.
Jesus: Whatsoever you have done to these the least of My brethren you have done unto Me.
Corinthians l: If meat makes my brother stumble I shall never again eat meat.
Exodus 16: 31 The desert manna was like coriander seed. (This was stated by Dr.Reginald Cherry MD on the Trinity Broadcast Network).
Proverbs 12:10 The righteous one is concerned for his beast.
Ezekiel 3 and 4: My body has never been contaminated by animal flesh.
Isaiah 66: 17
Leviticus 3: 17 commands to eat no animal fat or animal blood Many Jewish vegetarians such as Dr Richard Schwartz of Staten Island believe that it is impossible to drain all the blood out of tiny capillaries.
Leviticus 11: prohibits the eating of the flesh of rabbits, pigs, shellfish such as lobsters (coprophagous or waste eaters whose consumption of human waste on the Atlantic seaboard is the 2nd annual cause of hepatitis).
Leviticus: I will set my face against them that eat blood.
Judges 13: The breaking of the Nazarite vow (no flesh.. no hair cutting) was the cause of Samson`s downfall.
Job 12: 8 Speak to the earth and she will teach thee (of patience, nurturing, unconditional love, freely giving to all) [link to www.compassionatespirit.com]
Exodus 20: 13 Thou Shalt Not Kill (This is not asterisked in the Bible... Later translations such as New King James diluted King James to "Thou Shalt Not Murder" [link to www.ivu.org.cob-web.org:8888]
Genesis 6: Noah was commanded by God to provide vegetarian food for the animals on the ark. Lions were given milk. [link to www.vegweb.com.cob-web.org:8888]
Hosea 2:28: I will make for you that day a covenant with the animals.
Jesus: My father`s House is a House of Prayer. You have made it a den of thieves and butchers (where animal sacrifice occurred). The original Greek word for plunderer was rendered `thief` by translators. (the Greek gemousin osteon nekronis translated as `full of dead men`s bones` when it is in actuality `full of dead bones`. Interpretations divide. The Spirit Unites. May The Holy Spirit Overshadow Us All and All Creation. May differences of opinion, Holy Spirit, be to us as pleasing as the apple tree`s making crimson apples while the vine makes royal purple grapes. The Nazarite diet is described in Numbers.
Deuteronomy 5: Thou Shalt Not Kill (later versions than the King James translate this as Thou Shalt Not Murder)
Exodus 20: 13 Thou Shalt Not Kill brought down the mountain literally Lo Tirtzach ... (this is nonkilling, not nonmurder) The Biblical command "Thou Shalt Not Kill" which J J Price cites as a reason to change diet ... is not asterisked "to include humans only". The Biblical command "Thou Shalt Not Steal" which Kathy Kurtz cites can be related to not purloining the eggs from chickens nor the milk from mother cows whose calves are then butchered for veal.
Genesis 6: Noah was commanded by God to provide vegetarian food in the ark for people and animals. (The lions drank the milk of cows.)
Genesis 9: 4-5 Flesh shall yet not eat. And surely your blood I will require at the hands of beasts. (God forgive us all and help us all to change.)
Job 12: 8 Speak to the earth and she will teach thee (of patience, humility, forgiveness, universal nurturing) Job 5: You will be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. Isaiah 42: He shall break not the bruised reed.


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