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> > There is *NO* Biblical case for vegetarianism.
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> Genesis
> 1:29 And Elohim said, Behold, I have given you every
> herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth,
> and every tree, which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
> to you it shall be for meat.

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> Leviticus 11:42
> 42Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever
> goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet
> among all creeping things that creep upon the earth,
> them ye shall not eat;

I have noted that this quote does not belong here.
In context, it is from the long list of animals
which 'thou shalt not eat' in the Pentateuch (the
Five Books of Moses, or 'Torah'). See below.*
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> Jeremiah Chapter 7
> 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
> Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat
> ye flesh. 22 For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor
> commanded them in the day that I brought them out of
> the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices;
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> Isaiah Chapter 1
> 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide
> Mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers,
> I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash
> you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings
> from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do
> well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the
> fatherless, plead for the widow.
>
> Isaiah Chapter 11
> 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain;
> for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,
> as the waters cover the sea.
>
> Isaiah Chapter 66
> 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
> sacrificeth a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck; he that
> offereth a meal-offering, as if he offered swine's blood;
> he that maketh a memorial-offering of frankincense, as
> if he blessed an idol; according as they have chosen their
> own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations;
>
> "I shall be contented with the testimony of Philo on the
> present occasion, which he has given about the matter
> which I am here explaining in many passages of his
> treatises. And now do you take that work which he
> has written in defence of the Jewish nation, and read
> the following sentences in it.
>
> [Essenes: the name]
>
> (11.1) But our lawgiver (Moses) trained an innumerable
> body of his pupils to partake in those things, who are
> called Essenes, being, as I imagine, honoured with this
> appellation because of their exceeding holiness [Greek
> hosioteta = osiothta].
>
> (EGM 75) There is a portion of those people called
> Essenes, in number something more than four
> thousand in my opinion, who derive their name from
> their piety [Greek hosiotetos = osiothtoV], though not
> according to any accurate form of the Grecian dialect,
> because they are above all men devoted to the service
> [therapeutai] of God, not sacrificing living animals, but
> studying rather to preserve their own minds in a state
> of holiness and purity.
> ..
> http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/cou...9/hypothet.htm
>
> 'Nasaraeans, meaning, "rebels," who forbid all flesh-eating,
> and do not eat living things at all. They have the holy names
> of patriarchs which are in the Pentateuch, up through Moses
> and Joshua the son of Nun, and they believe in them-(2) I
> mean Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the earliest ones, and
> Moses himself, and Aaron, and Joshua. But they hold
> that the scriptures of the Pentateuch were not written by *
> Moses, and maintain that they have others. (Epiphanius,
> Panarion 1:19)
> ..
> "The Nasaraeans - they were jews by nationality - originally
> from Gileaditis (where the early followers of Yeshu-Maria
> fled after the martyrdom of James the Lord's brother),
> Bashanitis and the Transjordon . . . They acknowledged
> Moses and believed that he had received laws - not this *
> law, however, but some other. And so, they were jews
> who kept all the Jewish observances, but they would not
> offer sacrifice or eat meat. They considered it unlawful
> to eat meat or make sacrifices with it. They claim that
> these Books are fictions, and that none of these customs
> were instituted by the fathers. This was the difference
> between the Nasaraeans and the others. . . (Epiphanius,
> Panarion 1:18)
> ....
> http://essenes.net/sz17.htm
>
> Matthew 2:23 "He shall be called a Nazarene."
>
> ['Versions of the word "Nazarene"
> Matthew 2:23 uses the Greek word Nazoraios to refer
> to Jesus; in English this has traditionally (e.g. in the
> King James Bible) been translated as "Nazarene"
> (plural "Nazarenes"). However Mark 1:24 refers to
> Jesus as Nazarenos; in English this has traditionally
> (e.g. in the King James Bible) been translated as
> "of Nazareth"; however, because the correct Greek
> form of "of Nazareth" would be Nazarethenos or
> Nazarethaios, most modern translators prefer
> "Nazarene" here as well. "Nazarene" is also spelled
> in a variety of ways, including "Nazarean", "Nasarean",
> "Nazorean", "Nasorean", "Nazaraean", "Nasaraean"
> (plural "Nazarean", "Nasareans", "Nazoreans",
> "Nasoreans", "Nazaraeans", "Nasaraeans"). Modern
> groups which relate the Greek words Nazoraios and
> Nazarenos to the Hebrew Netzer (branch or shoot)
> prefer to use the transliteration Netzarim, the plural
> form of Netzer. A common Arabic word for "Christian"
> is Nasrani, believed to be derived from the same root
> as Nazorean, ultimately Nozrim.
> http://bibleocean.com/OmniDefinition/Nazarene ]
>
> "They [the Ebionites] say that Christ was not begotten
> of God the Father, but created as one of the archangels
> ... that he rules over the angels and all the creatures of
> the Almighty, and that he came and declared, as their
> Gospel, which is called Gospel according to Matthew,
> or Gospel According to the Hebrews" reports: "I am
> come to do away with sacrifices, and if you cease not
> sacrificing, the wrath of God will not cease from you."
> (Epiphanius, Panarion 30.16,4-5 )
> ..
> http://www.answers.com/topic/gospel-of-the-hebrews
>
> ['The Gospel according to the Hebrews was a Gospel
> which was once used by the Nazarenes and Ebionites.
> Eusebius said that GH was "the especial delight of
> those of the Hebrews who have accepted Messiah"
> (Eccl. Hist. 3:25:5). When speaking of the Ebionites,
> Epiphanius calls GH "their Gospel" (Pan. 30:16:4-5)
> and Jerome refers to GH as "the Gospel which the
> Nazarenes and Ebionites use" (On Mat. 12:13).
> ..
> While there is no reason to presume that there were
> three different Gospels called the Gospel according
> to the Hebrews, it is certainly clear that Nazarenes and
> Ebionites used different versions of GH. Epiphanius
> describes the version of GH used by the Ebionites as
> "called 'according to Matthew', which however is not
> wholly complete but falsified and mutilated" (Pan. 30:13:2)
> however in speaking of the Nazarenes he refers to the
> "Gospel of Matthew quite complete in Hebrew. preserved.
> as it was first written, in Hebrew letters" (Pan. 29:9:4).
> So it would appear that the Ebionite version of GH
> was "not wholly complete but falsified and mutilated"
> while the Nazarene version was "quite complete.
> preserved. as it was first written.".
>
> http://www.jios.org/The%20Synoptic%20Solution_jt.html ]
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> '8. He also said, I am come to end the sacrifices and feasts
> of blood, and if ye cease not offering and eating of flesh and
> blood, the wrath of God shall not cease from you, even as it
> came to your fathers in the wilderness, who lusted for flesh,
> and they eat to their content, and were filled with rottenness,
> and the plague consumed them.
> http://reluctant-messenger.com/essen...htm#Lection210
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