buzsaw writes:
The Bible indicates that man was a vegetarian before the flood and implies that the animals were also.
Where does the Bible indicate this? Livestock existed before the flood, and there were livestock on the ark:
Genesis 7:21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished - birds,
livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the
livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
The animal kingdom had already been divided into the clean and the unclean before the flood. Clean animals were those that the followers of the Lord could eat, and unclean animals were those they could not. God instructs Noah to bring both clean and unclean animals onto the ark, so clearly man was already eating clean animals before the flood:
Genesis 7:2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a matle and its mate...
Immediately upon disembarcking Noah sacrifices clean animals, a liturgical activity he was evidently already familiar with:
Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
Outside the Bible we know from archeological and paleontological investigations that man was already hunting and eating animals many thousands of years before the supposed world-wide flood, for which there is no evidence anyway.
The bottom line is that not only is there no evidence that man was a vegetarian before the flood, even the Bible indicates that pre-flood man ate meat.
--Percy
[This message has been edited by Percipient, 05-12-2003]
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