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Some of you have been quite disturbed about where you think I’m heading with this. Realize that what I’m describing is not necessarily how I currently believe, but the thought process I went through.
At this point I wanted to get married to a nice Christian girl (to whom I am still married) and so decided I would at least give the whole Christianity thing a go again for a while since it seemed a prerequisite to get the girl. I once again took up vegetarianism with a vengeance. I could not yet see how grains and legumes fit into the picture, but I figured that I must simply have missed something and happily snarfed them down.
Now what’s confusing about my previous conclusions is that man cannot live simply on large convenient natural foods like fruits and vegetables. There simply isn’t enough energy available to sustain a man in most climates. In tropical regions coconuts and avacados may help to provide the energy requirements, but in northern climates we’re out of luck.
Most traditional religions have some sort of a flood story. In the Bible, the flood is said to have wiped out all living things that were not taken into the ark. After the flood, God officially gives Noah permission to kill and eat all things that move. Now we have enough energy our food to sustain life in northern climates. It seemed plausible to me that prior to such a natural disaster there were foods available that are no longer available. Who knows, soil makeup, atmosphere, and other factors could have made significant changes at that time as well. Thus it was necessary for man to eat meat after the flood. Note also that the Bible never mentions God ever revoking his statement that we should eat meat.
This is the piece I was missing. While I knew about the flood and God telling Noah to eat meat, I had been taught by the writings of the Seventh-day Adventist “prophetess” that he had only done that for temporary purposes after the flood and that we should no longer eat meat.
Continue reading in part 4…
