Donna, again you're not addressing anything I said. You did that twice now. That's not how I like to debate, because if I'm going to reply to the things you're saying, then I think it's only fair that you would do the same.
The Scriptures about the quail are one of the worst things you could have chosen in support of meat eating… That was a curse! The only reason God gave them quail was because they were complaining nonstop, meat was what they were craving, so God gave them what they wanted.
Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Numbers 11:4-6
The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
Later, God was angry about their ungratefulness, complaining and selfishness, so here is God's response:
Num. 11:18-20
“Tell the people: Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. Yahweh heard you when you wailed, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!’ Now Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it. You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it! This is because you have rejected Yahweh, who is among you, and have wailed before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?'”
And God struck them down with the plague:
Numbers 11:33
33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
Even in Psalms it states that what happened, God gave them what they craved, but it was accompanied by a plague and people dying!
Psalm 78:26-29
God let loose the east wind from the heavens and by His power made the south wind blow. He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore. He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents. They ate till they were gorged—He had given them what they craved
Psalm 106:13-15
But they soon forgot what He had done and did not wait for His plan to unfold. In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wilderness they put God to the test. So He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
You know, now that I think about it… I believe this quail curse story is a good analogy of what is going on in the world today. We were not happy with what God gave us originally (see Genesis 1:29) So God gave us what we wanted… Dead animal flesh. Similar to the Israelites who had quail coming out of their nostrils, we are now gorging on animals every day. And what has been the result of that? Well first of all, the years of peoples lives was significantly shorter… Down to 120 years, as opposed to 800 or 1000 years that people used to live pre-flood.
Not only that, but as time goes on, there is more and more disease in this world, illnesses, cancer, heart disease… All of these things were never meant to happen, but they're happening because we are living in ways that were not the way God originally intended us to live. And it's not just what we eat but our heart… Instead of caring about God's perfect will and the bigger picture, most of us only care about ourselves and our own desires. We were never meant to eat animals, but God allows many things to take place in this world that were never His original plan.
As for the other things you brought up, like Leviticus, none of that changes God's original design. You keep ignoring that, and not addressing my point. Everything in the middle of the timeline that starts with Genesis and ends with the prophetic scriptures is a symptom of this fallen world.
You didn't answer my questions from before, but I don't want to keep asking you if you are choosing to not answer. So I think I will leave this discussion because it doesn't look like these things are going to be addressed, and I do not want us to go around in circles.
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