Biblical view on Cannibalism

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For me, this question is akin to asking the same about strong prohibitions like inappropriate behavior with animals. It isn’t the sort of thing that comes up in every day discussions or a social issue like homosexuality that should be addressed.

In short, most people have no interest in this practice. And the majority would see it as inappropriate with or without biblical sanctions. They wouldn’t need to hear it was wrong.

If you have given license to consuming human flesh, what else will you conceive? Where the mind goes the body follows. Some ideas should never be entertained.
 
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Did you actually read that book? Anyways, cannibal comes from the Taino language.
Yes, I did, many years ago. Here is what I could find from the book.

40 From the historian Castor (in Armenian translation of EUSEBIUS, pars. i. p. 81) we learn that it was under Bel, or Belus, that is Baal, that the Cyclops lived; .....The Cyclops, then, had been representatives of that God--in other words, priests, and priests of Bel or Bal. Now, we find that the Cyclops were well-known as cannibals, Referre ritus Cyclopum, "to bring back the rites of the Cyclops," meaning to revive the practice of eating human flesh. (OVID, Metam., xv. 93, vol. ii. p. 132)​

This is not what I had remembered, but it does indicate tha cannibalism was part of Baal worship. I will look further and find the quote.

Post Script; found the exact quote.

And it was a principle of the Mosaic law, a principle no doubt derived from the patriarchal faith, that the priest must partake of whatever was offered as a sin-offering (Num 18:9,10). Hence, the priests of Nimrod or Baal were necessarily required to eat of the human sacrifices; and thus it has come to pass that "Cahna-Bal,39" the "Priest of Baal," is the established word in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh 40.

39 The word Cahna is the emphatic form of Cahn. Cahn is "a priest," Cahna is "the priest."
 
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In short, most people have no interest in this practice. And the majority would see it as inappropriate with or without biblical sanctions. They wouldn’t need to hear it was wrong.

However, the news media has been running many different articles to promote the practice, citing it as an answer to food shortage during climate change. One must ask the question, Why would they even be talking about such a course of action? Answer, because some of the wealthy aristocrats of the world already do so in their Luciferian worship.
 
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The Peru flight survivor wrote his friend's flesh was "tasteless." So it obviously does not taste like chicken in case anybody was wondering.

We are unclean spiritually, but not in the same way that pigs and several other mammals are.
I agree however if humans were part of the dietary plan, we would be unclean. But I am getting into the weeds on this one!
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However, the news media has been running many different articles to promote the practice, citing it as an answer to food shortage during climate change. One must ask the question, Why would they even be talking about such a course of action? Answer, because some of the wealthy aristocrats of the world already do so in their Luciferian worship.

In the 25 years I’ve been discussing relationships on the Internet, I have come across everything you could imagine pertaining to human sexuality.

And in every instance where extremes were addressed or alluded to. The question was never related to right or wrong. Most respondents would agree it is wrong.

Inappropriate topics are always phrased in this guise. Oftentimes the inquirer is trying to gauge who feels the same. And I was on secular sites.

There are some practices that defy the nature of propriety and you can’t discuss them openly without immense scorn. This is one of them.
 
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But what if we were stranded on a deserted island and we made an agreement with one another that we could use the flash of one another to feed ourselves to Stave off starvation.

If I was stranded on a deserted island with no food, I would not view another human being as a food source. And if the LORD does not provide real food, I would assume he is calling me home.
 
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How is calling humans animals the same as calling God an animal?

We are made in his image.

Animals have the will to live. They have distinct personalities. God has a plan for every animal's life and a place for every animal that lives. Humans are unique in their abilities to reason but other animals also are able to think logically.

You are describing animal instinct. Also, God's plan for animals is to be under the dominion of Humans, as for one major reason stated in the creation account.

It is our superiority in reasoning, use of tools, intelligence, and abilities to love God and obey Him that separates us from all other animals.

Animals have intelligence, they can learn. However, they do not have will. That is what separates.
 
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If I was stranded on a deserted island with no food, I would not view another human being as a food source. And if the LORD does not provide real food, I would assume he is calling me home.

Just go fishing. Plenty there to eat. :blush:
 
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Then why not explicitly state as much?



Many Christians would still consider us, in a mean sense, animals.
The Bible in Genesis 2 says that God made Adam from the dirt as a special creation. It says that because of God's creation of humans separately in his image and likeness (Genesis 1:26,27). Therefore, humans are not animals. Those Christians that you mention have taken their beliefs from science, not from God's Word.
 
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The reason the bread and wine maintains its original physical form is exactly to avoid this problem. We are eating spiritual blood and flesh, mystically changed to be Christ's. It is not as simply as eating another person. We are commanded to do it as it is our way of directly having Christ's divinity be part of us.

This is a common misunderstanding however. Many first through fourth century Christians were killed because the Roman's thought they were a cannibalistic cult.
Yet the survivors of the Uruguayan crash in the Andes used the Eucharist as an example to defend their actions.

The church absolved them with their explanation:


Aftermath
In the resulting media frenzy, the survivors revealed that they had been forced to commit cannibalism. The admission caused a backlash until one of the survivors claimed that they had been inspired by the Last Supper, in which Jesus gave his disciples bread and wine that he stated were his body and his blood. The explanation helped sway public opinion, and the church later absolved the men.

Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 | Crash, Rescue, & Facts
 
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If people can provide where it says explicitly in scripture not to eat another man post it here. Thanks!

There is no scripture on eating poop, or that type of 2 girls and a cup thing.. maybe there are certain wrongs in the world that the Bible didn't need to include because we could determine that on our own?
 
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maybe there are certain wrongs in the world that the Bible didn't need to include because we could determine that on our own?

Depraved minds don’t operate with the same moral compass. That is lawlessness in the flesh.
 
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Yet the survivors of the Uruguayan crash in the Andes used the Eucharist as an example to defend their actions.

The church absolved them with their explanation:


Aftermath
In the resulting media frenzy, the survivors revealed that they had been forced to commit cannibalism. The admission caused a backlash until one of the survivors claimed that they had been inspired by the Last Supper, in which Jesus gave his disciples bread and wine that he stated were his body and his blood. The explanation helped sway public opinion, and the church later absolved the men.

Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 | Crash, Rescue, & Facts
Ok? Not really related to the point I was making as I was talking about in general, not some extreme survival situation.
 
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So you think they actually considered some spiritual aspect when eating their teammates?

I don't know about that, but the agreement was God would want them to survive at all costs, even if that requires cannibilism. (Of course they did not have Bibles to verify this.)
 
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