Something a friend told me about a passage in the Bible.. is it true?

[20MoreMiles]

Hello everyone, i'm new here.

I ran into something that at first sounds like a detail but it kept nagging me when thinking things over before going to sleep.


A friend of mine said that before man sinned, lions ate grass, plants etc. Everyone lived off the fruit off the earth. But man started sinning and certain animals like lions started eating other animals. Does anyone know in what passages this is stated so i can look into it?


Also another question, and this contains what some people might consider foul language, but it's in the Bible so i want to ask about it anyway and i will formulate it as harmless as possible. If you cannot stand that, then stop reading now!!







Ok, if you're still reading: that same friend also said that, and i quote him, "It is better to spill your seed in the belly of a harlot than on a rock", in other words, it's better to visit a prostitute than to touch (talking about guys here). Where can i read about this?


I have an other question but it is not really related, so i will start an other thread about that.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Minty]

I'm sorry that I can't help you, but I wish you luck with your search

 

[Lisa0315]

Hello everyone, i'm new here.

I ran into something that at first sounds like a detail but it kept nagging me when thinking things over before going to sleep.


A friend of mine said that before man sinned, lions ate grass, plants etc. Everyone lived off the fruit off the earth. But man started sinning and certain animals like lions started eating other animals. Does anyone know in what passages this is stated so i can look into it?


Also another question, and this contains what some people might consider foul language, but it's in the Bible so i want to ask about it anyway and i will formulate it as harmless as possible. If you cannot stand that, then stop reading now!!







Ok, if you're still reading: that same friend also said that, and i quote him, "It is better to spill your seed in the belly of a harlot than on a rock", in other words, it's better to visit a prostitute than to touch (talking about guys here). Where can i read about this?


I have an other question but it is not really related, so i will start an other thread about that.

Thanks in advance.

None of that is in the Bible.

However, you can surmise that no living creatures killed or were killed before the fall. You can also assume that animals remained on pretty friendly terms with man until after the flood. Otherwise, how did Noah get them on the ark?

As for the other, it sounds like a bad interpretation. I know the Scripture but that is not what it means. Give me a second and I will see if I can locate it.

Lisa

 

[Lisa0315]

Find out if your friend is speaking of Molech's sin. If he is, then, it is not masturbation, it was sacrifice of children to the Sun god. They literally burned their children in a fire. Here is the Scripture and Matthew Henry's commentary on it.

Leviticus 18:19-30 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, F32 neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/MatthewHenryComplete/mhc-com.cgi?book=le&chapter=18#Le18_21

Here is, I. A law to preserve the honour of the marriage-bed, that it should not be unseasonably used (v. 19), nor invaded by an adulterer, v. 20. II. A law against that which was the most unnatural idolatry, causing their children to pass through the fire to Moloch, v. 21. Moloch (as some think) was the idol in and by which they worshipped the sun, that great fire of the world; and therefore in the worship of it they made their own children either sacrifices to this idol, burning them to death before it, or devotees to it, causing them to pass between two fires, as some think, or to be thrown through one, to the honour of this pretended deity, imagining that the consecrating of but one of their children in this manner to Moloch would procure good fortune for all the rest of their children. Did idolaters thus give their own children to false gods, and shall we think any thing too dear to be dedicated to, or to be parted with for, the true God? See how this sin of Israel (which they were afterwards guilty of, notwithstanding this law) is aggravated by the relation which they and their children stood in to God. Eze. 16:20, Thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these thou hast sacrificed. Therefore it is here called profaning the name of their God; for it looked as if they thought they were under greater obligations to Moloch than to Jehovah; for to him they offered their cattle only, but to Moloch their children. III. A law again

 

[Jayangel81]

"It is better to spill your seed in the belly of a harlot than on a rock",

numerous people have heard this saying. It is false teaching. It is not in scriptures as Lisa said.

Scriptures clearly stated that we are not to unite our bodies with a prostitute.

 

[Criada]

After Noah left the ark, God gave him permission to eat the flesh of animals. Prior to that, we see God giving man plants, seeds and fruits as food, so many assume that antediluvian man was vegetarian. Though... Abel kept flocks and sacrificed them to God... it is not clear whether these animals were for food. I don't think there is any mention anywhere of what animals ate... though the ark would certainly have been easier to manage if they weren't trying to eat one another..
I don't think that there is any biblical evidence for the idea, tho.


As for the other... Lisa's explanation makes a lot of sense.
Without knowing what passage your friend id referring to, it's hard to be sure.


The thing is, there are many many things we could discuss and pick apart.. and on some of them, Christians will differ..
But at the end of the day, if we focus on loving Jesus and loving others, the rest becomes... unimportant by comparison