If
we are going to hypothesize the Bible’s dominion principle
then
we need to look at all scriptures regarding Dominion
And
Yah said
God said to Adam & Eve see, I
have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of the earth,
and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be food. Also, to every
beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and everything that creeps upon the
earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food’; and it
was so.” This emphasis on the use of plants for food recurs when Adam and Eve,
acting in conspiracy with a snake, persuades Adam to disobey God’s Command that
they shall not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When God
reprimands Adam for his Disobedience, God curses the ground and says to Adam
that from this point forward, he will have to toil to obtain his food. But
again, the food which God speaks does not include animals “Cursed is the ground
for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both
thorns & thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herbs
of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to
the ground.” The first mention of humans killing animals only came later in
Genesis. So even if God created humans as spiritual superiors to animals, such
as hierarchy does not necessarily mean that God did not intend animals to have
at least that amount of inherent value required for possession of a basic right
not to be treated as our resources.
On
the meaning of the word “Dominion”
All
animals everywhere belong to God. "For every beast of the forest is mine
and the cattle upon a thousand hills" (Ps. 50:10). "All things were
created by him [Christ], and for him" (Col. 1:16). We cannot own what
belongs to God; we're only caretakers. In Genesis God gave us dominion over
animals, not ownership. Dominion does not mean that we have the right to
conquer, exploit, kill and enslave animals. While dominion implies a hierarchy
that places humans in charge, it does not implicitly mean humans are to abuse
& murder God’s animals. What was included in the dominion principle,
"and God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth but it still belongs to God. 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
[food]" (Gen. 1:28, 29). One glaring thing not included in the original
dominion arrangement was the eating of animals as food. Adam and Eve were the
caretakers of Eden, stewards of God's creations (Gen. 2:15). Their
"dominion" was not to be tyrannical or dictatorial--this is the
beauty of God's dominion principle. Like the subjects in Psalm 72, those over whom
they have dominion are blessed, and offer praise. We have “stewardship"
with God’s animals as Caretakers not killers. Does not Christ have dominion
over all? "His kingdom ruleth over all" (Ps. 103:19). Yeshua is our
king! For us to exercise dominion over animals, we must understand how He
exercises dominion over us. This is God's dominion principle--God is over us in
the same way we are over animals. Many other scriptures profess God's love for
animals. "God tests them [humans] so that they may see they are like the
animals. (Ecclesiastes 3:19-21) “Man's fate is like that of the animals. The
same fate awaits them both. As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same
breath. Man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go
to the same place. All come from dust and to dust all return. Who knows if the
spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal goes down into the
earth" Now are we going to deny the love of Christ and continue to kill
animals because humans have accepted through the dominator culture and man’s
own weak mindset that animals are explicitly here for us?Thou Shalt Not Kill
The four most important & ignored Words in religious teachings are "Thou shall not kill" The golden rule states “Do unto others as you would
have had them done unto yourself.” Animals qualify as others, there’s not an asterisk next to that
commandment saying; unless you walk on all four, have fur, feathers, horns,
beaks & gills. When meat-eaters disobey or ignore this
all-encompassing commandment, they are guilty of committing the ultimate sin.
Displaying the utmost arrogance, meat-eaters also assume dominion gives them
the right to enslave and torture and kill animals with impunity. Dominion's
true calling, however, is for humans to protect and care for God's most
innocent creatures. The dominion humans have over animals is the same dominion
parents have over their children. The Gospel of the Nazirenes states, (47:3)
"It has been written, 'Thou shalt not kill', but I say to you, if any hate
and desire to slay, they have broken the Law. If they cause hurt or torment to
any creature, they are guilty. But if they kill to put an end to suffering
which cannot be healed, they are not guilty, if they do it quickly and with
much mercy." Garden of Vegan
No one can truly deny that in the Garden
of Eden we were Vegans (plant eating herbivores) Both in the Edenic and Adamic Covenant the human species were Vegan,
it was not until the Noahic Covenant that animals were included in their diet. We read in the scriptures; "in
the beginning will be as in the end”, as in the coming of the Messiah when the
‘wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young
goat,” “a little child shall lead them” and they shall not hurt nor destroy in
all My holy mountain.” Throughout the commonly accepted Bible it talks about
how animals should be treated “better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than
a fattened ox where hatred is” in the apocryphal books it mentions numerous
times of the relationship the Yeshua & the apostles had with the animals,
Yeshua often communed with the animals and the animals praised and worshiped
him. Also remember Yeshua was of the order of the Essenes and the Essenes were
vegetarian living on a plant based life.
Yah depicts a peaceful world
God
found everything in Eden 'very good,' and gave all animals and humans a Vegan
world, in God’s perfect
will, all mankind were to be Vegan. Not only that, but God makes it clear that
all animals were also Vegan, (Genesis 1:30) “And to all the beasts of the earth
and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything
that has the breath of life in it I give every green plant for food.
Yah promised a return to a Peaceful Vegan World
Several
prophecies such as (Isaiah 11:6-9), foresee a return to this vegan world where
the wolf, lamb, lion, cow, snake and little child co-exist peacefully. All
Christians pick and choose certain Biblical verses that support their belief
system. In the past people used the Bible to justify slavery, segregation, and
the oppression of women, we except that these were a misinterpretation and
misuse of the God’s word and the Bible, the same is true for exploiting and
killing animals.Our bodies are our Temple
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20) “19. Do you not
know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you
have received from God? You are not your own; 20. you were bought at a price.
Therefore honor God with your bodies.” We know when we eat meat, eggs and dairy
our bodies (our temple) become a type of a living graveyard of animal flesh and
secretions sacrificed in our temple (our bodies)The oldest known complete copy
of our Gospels is called the “Old Syriac Gospels” or “Evangelion Da
–Mepharresh” and in it we find Yeshua saying at Luke (21:34) "See that you do not make your
minds heavy, to do this, never eat meat or drink wine."“Daniel 1: 12-16”
The first recorded plant based health study
It is evident that Daniel was a Vegan, (Daniel 1:12-16)
12. "Please test your
servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to
drink. 13. Then compare our appearance
with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in
accordance with what you see.14. So
he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. 15. At the end of the ten days they
looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the
royal food. 16.
So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and
gave them vegetables instead.”Yah puts the fear of man in the animals
Yes after the flood, from the sins of man, (Genesis 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" God gave us dominion over the animals
but that does not mean we have the right to enslave, desecrate and murder God’s
animals. Let me ask you this; in a dominion what kind of ruler (king) kills and
sacrifices all their subjects? Enoch on the Judgment Day
In the Books of
Enoch it mentions, when Enoch is teaching his sons that on the Judgment day
Humans are to be judged by God but also will be judged by animals on how man
treated animals within their life. If we as Christians supposed to love Christ
and inspire to be more Christ like within our own lives, should we not live how
he would want us to live, to be more benevolent with each other & the
animals if the human species is to return as it was in the Beginning (in the
beginning it shall be as in the end) why are so many followers choosing not to
live a life that Yeshua asks of us?Yeshua was a Vegetarian
"Flesh eating is simply immoral"
Yeshua on Diet and
(Holocauston) Animal Sacrifice
The Christian Fish is a Greek anagram meaning
“Ihsous Christ, God's Son, Savior.”
On Yeshua Feeding 5000 people with fish,
there are many parallel versions of this basic story. Not only is it in the
Bible, it is mentioned several times by early church fathers. Ireneaus twice
states that Yeshua fed the multitudes with bread alone (Against Heresies
2.22.3, 2.24.4). Arnobius also describes this incident without mentioning fish
(Against the Heathen 1.46) as does Eusebius (Proof of the Gospel 3.4). Indeed,
even Yeshua himself, when referring back to this miracle (Matthew 16:9-10),
mentions bread but doesn’t mention fish. Yeshua never ate Fish or fed others
animal flesh. That was added later by Saul/Paul to appease the Gentile European
barbaric people. From orthodox sources Yeshua was a Vegetarian, James, Peter
and John were Vegetarians, all the disciples were Vegetarians, Yahshua’s whole
family were Vegetarians, the early Judeo-Christen Ebonites and Nazarenes
Essenes were Vegetarians and they required Vegetarianism. Yeshua Said “I came to end the animal sacrifices, and if you do not stop
making sacrifices, the wrath of God will not leave you alone.” When
Yeshua was offered Passover Meat he indignantly refused saying “I will have nothing to do with this Passover meat” Yeshua
refused to eat lamb, fish and honey. "Now beware
in yourselves that your hearts do not become heavy with the eating of flesh and
the intoxication of wine."
Yeshua on
Animal Liberation
Yeshua was actually killed because he disrupted the animal
sacrifice business in the temple, most Christians are not even aware of this
because they know this incident by another title, they know of it as
"Jesus over turns the tables of the money changers," but the money
changers were not the primary target of Yeshua’s wrath (this incident is one
of the few that was recorded in all four gospels 'read the one in john 2' the
clearest and the longest account) what Yeshua was doing was disrupting the
animal sacrifice business in the temple. When Yeshua went into the temple and
disrupted the animal sacrifice he was performing an act of animal liberation
and that is the basis of Christianity, and that is why he was crucified because
he was a threat to public order. When Yeshua disrupts public order then he is
arrested, then he is crucified. Yeshua was vegetarian and taught vegetarianism
in the early church, through the gospel message and compassion for all life.
There are many Scriptures in the Bible, in the writings of gospels of Phillip,
the Essenes, and The Old Syriac Gospels of Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe teaches us
that Yeshua loved and also communed with animals. So was Yeshua Vegan, yes.
“I have come to destroy the animal sacrifices, and if you do not cease from sacrificing, my wrath will not cease from you”
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.”
“Who told you to kill all the bullocks and the she-sheep to make offer for me? Please stop the killing of all these innocents. Wash your hands because they are full of blood. If you continue to do that, I will turn my head away when you pray.”
“Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good”
“Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human being; whoever sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck”
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”
“Be thou not among flesh eaters and wine drinkers.” “Meat for the belly, belly for the meat and God will destroy both meat and them.”
“They shall atone for sins without the flesh of holocausts and the fat of sacrifice and prayer shall be an acceptable fragrance of righteousness”
Holocaust in the Temple
According to the Talmud, a Jewish religious text, the city's economic heart was the Holy Temple, the only place where Israelites could sacrifice animals as offerings to God. Parts of the animal that weren't sacrificed as a burnt offering were often left for people to feast on. Some passages in the text depict priests wading up to their knees in blood, and others describe 1.2 million animals being slaughtered on one day. And the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus also describes an enormous slaughtering operation.
“I have come to destroy the animal sacrifices, and if you do not cease from sacrificing, my wrath will not cease from you”
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.”
“Who told you to kill all the bullocks and the she-sheep to make offer for me? Please stop the killing of all these innocents. Wash your hands because they are full of blood. If you continue to do that, I will turn my head away when you pray.”
“Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good”
“Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human being; whoever sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck”
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”
“Be thou not among flesh eaters and wine drinkers.” “Meat for the belly, belly for the meat and God will destroy both meat and them.”
“They shall atone for sins without the flesh of holocausts and the fat of sacrifice and prayer shall be an acceptable fragrance of righteousness”
Holocaust in the Temple
According to the Talmud, a Jewish religious text, the city's economic heart was the Holy Temple, the only place where Israelites could sacrifice animals as offerings to God. Parts of the animal that weren't sacrificed as a burnt offering were often left for people to feast on. Some passages in the text depict priests wading up to their knees in blood, and others describe 1.2 million animals being slaughtered on one day. And the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus also describes an enormous slaughtering operation.
NBC NEWS: Animal sacrifice at temple powered ancient Jerusalem's economy.
Pilgrims came from hundreds of miles away to sacrifice animals at an ancient temple in Jerusalem, new research suggests.
An analysis of bones found in an ancient dump in the city dating back 2,000 years revealed that animals sacrificed at the temple came from far and wide.
"The study shows that there is a major interprovincial market that enables the transfer of vast numbers of animals that are used for sacrifice and feasting in Jerusalem during that time period," said study co-author Gideon Hartman, a researcher at the University of Connecticut.
The finding, published in the September issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, confirms visions of the temple depicted in historical Jewish texts and suggests the economic heart of the city was its slaughtering operation. [Photos: Bronze-Age Donkey Sacrifice Discovered in Israel]
Massive slaughterhouse
At the time, Jerusalem was a bustling metropolis without any natural economic resources, as it was landlocked and far from most major trade routes.
At the time, Jerusalem was a bustling metropolis without any natural economic resources, as it was landlocked and far from most major trade routes.
According to the Talmud, a Jewish religious text, the city's economic heart was the Holy Temple, the only place where Israelites could sacrifice animals as offerings to God. Parts of the animal that weren't sacrificed as a burnt offering were often left for people to feast on.
Some passages in the text depict priests wading up to their knees in blood, and others describe 1.2 million animals being slaughtered on one day. And the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus also describes an enormous slaughtering operation.
But historians wondered whether these descriptions were hyperbole or fact.
City dump
A few years ago, archaeologists unearthed a massive dump on the outskirts of the old walled city of Jerusalem. Dating revealed the dump was used between the start of King Herod's reign in 37 B.C. and the Great Revolt in A.D. 66. [See Images of the Massive Bone Dump ]
A few years ago, archaeologists unearthed a massive dump on the outskirts of the old walled city of Jerusalem. Dating revealed the dump was used between the start of King Herod's reign in 37 B.C. and the Great Revolt in A.D. 66. [See Images of the Massive Bone Dump ]
Whereas most city dumps contain animal bones, this one contained an unusually large proportion of them for an agricultural society, Hartman said.
"Meat was not eaten on a daily basis. It was something that was kept for special events," Hartman told LiveScience.
What's more, most of the animals were young, suggesting they were raised for sacrifice.
Hartman analyzed nitrogen and carbon isotopes, or atoms of the same element with a different number of neutrons, from about 160 sheep and goat bones found in the city dump. He then compared the bones from the city dump with bones from the same time period taken from animals that were raised both nearby and in distant locales.
All animals incorporate unique ratios of nitrogen and carbon isotopes from their environment into their body from the food they eat, so isotope analysis can reveal where animals came from.
The study found that many of the animals found in the city dump came from rural desert regions hundreds of miles away, such as Arabia or Transjordan. [Stark Beauty: Images of Israel's Negev Desert]
After the first temple was destroyed in 586 B.C., the Israelites eventually rebuilt a second temple, but by then many Jews were scattered from Asia Minor to Europe. (The First Temple period refers to the time after the first temple was built until it was destroyed, while the Second Temple period refers to the lifetime of the second temple.)
"There are strong and wealthy Jewish populations during the time of the second temple that are established far away from the land of Israel," Hartman said.
Those people were still religiously required to sacrifice animals, which could only be done in Jerusalem.
So representatives from distant Jewish communities would gather money from the community to buy animals for slaughter. They would then bring animals all the way to the temple in Jerusalem, Hartman said.
"This fuels the economy in Jerusalem: The merchants are making a lot of money and the city prospers," Hartman said.
Religious faiths and denominations that adhere to a plant
base Vegetarian/Vegan/Ital way of life
Rastafari
Essenes
Ebionites
Seventh Day Adventists,
Jains
Sikhs
Hindus
Buddhists
Hare Krishnas
Essenes
Ebionites
Seventh Day Adventists,
Jains
Sikhs
Hindus
Buddhists
Hare Krishnas
Followers of Rastafari Call Veganism
"Ital Livity"
(Vegan
Ital Livity)
Philosophy and the Edenic Covenant Eating Laws
Habitation
of un-fallen Man and Women,
and the Edenic Covenant
(Eating Laws Geneses
1:28-31)
(28) And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
(29) 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 food.
(30) 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.
(31) And God saw everything that he
had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
Other
Eating Laws later in the prophecy (Genesis 9:1-4)
(1) And God blessed Noah and his
sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
(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.
(3) Every moving thing that liveth
shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
(4) But flesh with the life thereof,
which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Ital
Livity Living
True Rasta
Women and Men are what the western world calls Vegan. Rasta eats no meat,
poultry, fish, or dairy products, Rasta drinks no artificial flavored
beverages, Rasta Women also do not feed her children milk derived from animals.
The
justification for Rasta’s eating habits is found in the “first commandment”.
(Genesis. 1:29) It states,
(29) 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 which is the fruit of a tree yielding
seed; to you it shall be for food.
Rasta
chooses to recognize the “first Commandment) that was given to man before the
downfall of man as such a downfall corrupted people and caused people to lust
after abominable foods.
The first
commandment to eat fruits and vegetables coincides with the commandment given
to the Nazarite to stay away from dead things. Rasta realizes that the prophesy
mentions other eating laws later on in the prophesy.
Causing
writers of biblical eating laws written after the first one to take in account
of the weak state of people and to make certain allowances for eating certain
types of flesh. Rasta views the creation of such laws as wayward and
destructive and contributing to the physical demise of all people.
The unnatural eating of flesh of animals is polluting as the heathen worships of devils with sacrifices and its impure feasts; a person becomes a fellow eater of devils. If you have people who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion andlove, you will have people who will deal likewise with fellow persons.
Living How we were created in harmony with all beings
Rasta is to lay a proper spiritual foundation for a quality spiritual life it is important to cease harming other living creatures as much as possible by embracing an all plant diet. Those who kill and eat animals for food will be more prone to than vegans to torture and kill their fellow humans. For as long people massacre animals they will kill each other. Indeed he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
We the “Children of the Most High“ practice
abstinence from drinking and eating the secretions and flesh of animals to
subdue our bodies, the unnatural eating of flesh and secretions of animals is
of dominical origin and polluting to the kingdom of God.
"Let our eating habits match our morals and values"
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