Food Sources
From Eco-Bible 1
These are notes for an incomplete "Concept" page.
- Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.
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BEFORE THE FLOOD: plants
AFTER THE FLOOD: plants and animals
- However, certain animals were prohibited under the Old Covenant that God made with Israel. (These restrictions did not apply to non-Jews.)
NOT a legitimate food source: Humans!
Scripture Pages that Link to Here
- PLANTS = Food source for humans and animals, prior to the global Flood.
- Gen 1:29 To the humans: I have given you every herb yielding seed ... and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed... It will be your food.
- Gen 1:30 To every animal/bird/etc.: I have given every green herb for food. [Note - not just "herbs that have seeds" - apparently a wider range of edible substances than for humans.]
- Humans can now eat animals, but not their blood.
- Gen 9:2 ... Every animal of the earth / every bird of the sky / everything that the ground teems with /all the fish of the sea: They are delivered into your hand.
- Gen 9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Gen 9:4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
- A list that distinguishes between animals that can be eaten, and those that cannot.
- Warning to Israel: One of the consequences of ongoing rebellion against God - attacked by other nations... the resulting siege will cause famine and starvation, to the point that people will begin eating other people. See Cannibalism.
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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