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Why follow Adam rather than Noah? because it has been proven through many studies that lifestyle (what we eat) effects our health and well being, along with longevity.
Yes, but adopting vegetarianism because it is desirable, beneficial, healthy and may lead to a longer life is not the same as adopting it because God has commanded that it should be this way.
The only excuse to eat animal products today is selfish at best. We "like the flavor".
Yet fish and meat are good sources of protein and people have always eaten them. I know of vegetarians who have died at my age, or even long before. I know of meat eaters who have lived into their 90s, or maybe older.
No matter that God tells us that our bodies are His temple, and no matter that study after study proves that eating animal products are the second leading cause of disease, next to smoking.
But God has not commanded, or even advised, us how to maintain this temple. Like I say, some people, lifelong meat eaters, like a drink, possibly even smoke, or used to, have lived to be over 90. A friend of mine, 6 years younger than me and a vegetarian, died over a decade ago.
Just because we are allowed to eat dead animals are we suppose to?
If we weren't supposed, or allowed, to, it would be forbidden.
You try to make it a command that we must eat flesh.
Why would I, and who do you think would listen to me? I'm not God, I'm not influential and I can't add to the words of Scripture.
Just because Jesus ate fish on a couple occasions, and lamb on passover does that mean it was His main source of food?
We don't know.
The point is that the Bible does not teach, never mind command, vegetarianism - and that God himself ate meat. How often you eat it may be a matter of taste (no pun intended), conscience or something else. But it is not wrong to eat it.
They didn't have all the healthy choices we have.
Depends what you mean by healthy.
Fish and chicken are healthy; oily fish is very healthy.
Some nuts are very salty - bad for high blood pressure - and contain fat, or oil.
Some vegetarian diets may not contain all the proteins and nutrients needed, making them actually quite unhealthy.
The way I see it is if we have healthy choices and choose to pollute our bodies we will be accountable to God for destroying our temple which belongs to Him.
Maybe.
But like I said, I know Christian, vegetarians and/or healthy eaters who have still died young, and Christian meat eaters who are 90 years young. It may not be the norm - statistics may show otherwise, but it happens. You hear people saying "but he never had a days illness in his life" - before the stroke which killed him. If God wanted to show/teach us, or make the point to us that we should all be vegetarians, a) he would have said so in Scripture and not given the Israelites lamb to eat, and b) it would always be the case that vegetarians live longer than meat eaters.
And it depends what you mean by "polluting the body". As I see it, it is the ready meals, sauces with added e numbers and the addition of extra sugar/salt/fat which does that. Nothing wrong with chicken, potatoes of some form and vegetables. Or poached/smoked salmon. Or a Sunday roast with lots of vegetables.
I don't drink alcohol, at all. Yet there are studies which show that red wine is good for you, in moderation.
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