Your post regarding the killing of animals by God's hands at the time of Adam's fall is in relation to it being necessary to implement a sacrificial blood covenant at that time as a "type" of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus later. But I don't understand how you relate the deaths of those animals at that time to the actual eating of meat by men before the flood. Am I wrong in understanding that men were not permitted to eat meat before the flood? Perhaps ungodly men practiced meat-eating before the flood...?
Can you show me in Holy Scripture where it says man did not eat the meat of animals until after Noah?
I'll tell you where I'm coming from on this. We know from the OT that a blood sacrifice is necessary to cover sin, the reason for God killing two animals as a covering for Adam and Eve's sin. God needed to show death is the result of sin, in this case, animal death. We know from Holy Scripture that Abel was sacrificing first-fruits of his flock of lambs to God, and God found it pleasing. Why would Abel be raising sheep? Was it strictly for clothing?
Gen 9:4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
If you're thinking of Genesis 9:4, John Gill interprets it as follows:
"Gen 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. This is the only exception to the eating of flesh; it was not to be eaten with the blood in it, which is said to be its life; not that the blood is of itself the life, but because it is a means of life, and that being exhausted, the creature must die, and because the animal and vital spirits appear to us most vigorous in it; yea, it is the ailment and support of them, and which furnishes out the greatest quantity of them: or rather it may be rendered, "the flesh with its life in its blood" (m); while there is life in the blood, or while the creature is living; the meaning is, that a creature designed for food should be properly killed, and its blood let out; that it should not be devoured alive, as by a beast of prey; that raw flesh should not be eaten, as since by cannibals, and might be by riotous flesh eaters, before the flood; for notwithstanding this law, as flesh without the blood might be eaten, so blood properly let out, and dressed, or mixed with other things, might be eaten, for aught this says to the contrary; but was not to be eaten with the flesh, though it might separately, which was afterwards forbid by another law. The design of this was to restrain cruelty in men, and particularly to prevent the shedding of human blood, which men might be led into, were they suffered to tear living creatures in pieces, and feed upon their raw flesh, and the blood in it. The Targum of Jonathan is,"but the flesh which is torn from a living beast at the time that its life is in it, or which is torn from a beast while it is slain, before all its breath is gone out, ye shall not eat.''And the Jewish writers generally interpret this of the flesh of a creature taken from it alive, which, they say, is the seventh precept given to the sons of Noah, over and above the six which the sons of Adam were bound to observe, and they are these;1. Idolatry is forbidden. 2. Blasphemy is forbidden. 3. The shedding of blood, or murder is forbidden. 4. Uncleanness, or unjust carnal copulations is forbidden. 5. Rapine or robbery is forbidden. 6. The administration of justice to malefactors is required. 7. The eating of any member or flesh of a creature while alive (n) is forbidden.Such of the Heathens who conformed to those precepts were admitted to dwell among the Israelites, and were called proselytes of the gate."
Some other commentators give a similar interpretation.
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