Mer_panacea's Journal: A letter from America

One of my close friends went to America, staying for a while. He sent me a riddle. Here's a part of his letter from America.

>After Noah and his family survived the flood, God now allows humans to eat animal meat (except the blood). But as you recall, there were only pairs of animals or each kind with seven. So if people would start eating animals right away, wouldn't some animals be extinct right away? No, because God provided a solution for these animals. The answer is in Genesis 9:2! Please check it out!

Genesis 9:2 from New International Version: The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.

Is this answer?

Permission or action

[zogger]

Although God gave permission, it isn't clear when the action of humans eating meat again started, or how extensive it was. With the command to be good stewards of the planet, they could have held back for some time until the numbers reached a sustainable level.

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[Mer_panacea]

Thanks! Zog!! I had no idea how to reply to his question. I sent him a letter as follows.

Hi, ..

I had thought about it for a while...
My interpretation is secular one, allow me to express it!

I think people wouldn't start eating meat until it reached a sustainable numbers. Today we don't normally eat meat as a result of casual hunting, but through domestication. Animal meat is served through planned slaughtering from a stored pool of livestock evading extinction of precious source of protein.

The point is God g

What kind of nonsense is this?

[Profane MuthaFucka]

These are fairy tales and have no bearing on what people ate a few thousand years ago.

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[Mer_panacea]

I don't know whether you are Christian, I am not a Christian.

Probably thousands of years ago a guy called Noah made an Ark and collected some animal spieces before flood comes. His family as well as animals survived, but he didn't start eating animals he collected. He must have thought how to increase the number of animals in the first place.

Pork was prohibited to eat ancient times, because hogs ate many dirty matters as well then pork is believed to cause many disease in human body. Today there's no fear l

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[Profane MuthaFucka]

I'm not a Christian. But that's irrelevant.

Are you serious in your belief that the Flood myths are accounts of an actual flood?

And are you serious in your belief that eating pork was EVER a very dangerous thing to do?

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[Mer_panacea]

I read many books including Bible. My impression is yes, yes. Perhaps it is based on my biased idea. Bible is a religious book, but it is a precious human record from historical point of view, too. It is unnecessary for us to exclude all the descriptions as myth or fairy tale judging from just simply the book has been performed mainly a religious role.

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[Profane MuthaFucka]

This isn't a goddamn troll. It's inflammatory, you cock gobbling mods.

Copyright 2000, some man

[mcgrew]

The New International Version is copyrighted. If a man owns the words in that so-called "bible" how can it be the word of God? No man can own God's word! Any bible carrying a copyright notice should be suspect.

9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be me

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[Mer_panacea]

Bible is written by prophets who was inspired by God. Pentateuch was written around the middle of 6 century BC, still Jewish people were under Babylonian captivity.

Bible is very human centric, but the fact is many spieces live together on the glove.

I bought New International Version in Manila. Expression is easy to understand, I like it.