Animal sacrifice (Kind of long but I shortened it a lot)
This is just what I now sincerely believe. I do not expect others to feel the same way and I am not a vegetarian but it looks like they might be right.
I had always been a big hunter and meat eater but I am now coming to realize God never ever approved of man killing and eating animals. I discovered this reading the Clementine Recognitions and recomposing them into my forum name “bookofpeter”.
www.bookofpeter.com .
The writings of St Clement are controversial but I believe them to be true. They answer every question I ever had concerning the Faith
Book of Enoch has Able’s sacrifice the opposite of Genesis where Cane sacrificed an animal and Able sacrificed grain.
From The Lost Book of Peter (My composition of a 2000 year old document. I realize it is not part of the accepted cannon.)
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“God never wanted man to kill and eat animals. Adam and Eve did not eat animals. Noah would have taken four of every animal, not just two, if he ate meat. Killing and eating animals was initiated by the fallen angels - the Nephilim. It is a bloody demon sacrifice, referred to as eating at the table of demons. God hated this abomination started by the angel-human crossbreeds. God never wanted His animals killed and sacrificed. But since man adopted this detestable habit God gave rules for the priests regarding sacrifices (Leviticus). The only sacrifice God ever wanted was for everyone to treat and love each other as themselves (Hosea 6:6, Psalm 51:16, Jeremiah 6:19-20, Hebrews 10). ‘And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so’ (Genesis 1:29 in the King James Bible – Our new Bibles changed “meat” to “food”).
Page 33
“Another of the people’s errors was the craving of meat. God did not want bloody animal sacrifices, but he still allowed it under certain conditions. It was a detestable carryover from the angel/human crossbreeds. Moses finally realized that the vice of killing animals had been so deeply ingrained into the people from their association with the Egyptians that the root of this evil could not be extracted from them. So he allowed them this one evil for now, knowing it would be corrected by the future Prophet whom God would send as His Son at a later date in time.
“Moses tried to break the people of eating meat when God gave them manna. But the unclean spirits inside of them wanted ‘meat’ (Numbers 11:4, Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 66). So, God conceded until His Son would come. God gave them specific instructions on what meat they could eat, telling them not to eat unclean meat, meaning certain meats with an abundance of unclean spirits.
“This rule of food would continue until Christ’s body would replace the bloody demon animal sacrifices (Hebrews 10:1). As long as Christ was inside of you (Eucharist), you were protected from the unclean spirits in food. In the new kingdom to come there will be no more killing of animals. The wolf will live in peace with the lamb. “Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.” (Isaiah)
“So He appointed a place in which alone it should be lawful for them to sacrifice these animals to God until the fitting time should come. At that time they will learn from the Prophet that God desires mercy and not animal sacrifices.
“In order to impress this upon them, before the coming of the true Prophet, who was to reject at once the sacrifices, God would have these detestable places of sacrifice often plundered by enemies and burnt with fire. Then the people would be carried into captivity among foreign nations and then brought back when they restored themselves to the mercy of God. They would then have learned that a people who offered animal sacrifices would be driven away and delivered up into the hands of the enemy. But they who were merciful and righteous to fellow men and did not kill His animals were freed from captivity and restored to their native land. As usual, very few would ever understand this.
Anyway there is a lot more on this subject.
Christ and his deciples did not eat meat. John the Baptist ate beetles and beans.
Notice at the “Last Supper” they were eating bread. You would have though Crist would have said “Take this Passover lamb, this is My body”.
