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1 | Animals in the New Testament? | Prov 12:12 | lionheart | 187339 | ||
MWLaine, Matthew 6:33 tells us to seek first the Kingdom of God. Where we run into problems is when we love things more than we love God.It's not necessarily things that are sin,it's when we elevate those things above God. God must be first in all things. So having pets is'nt sinfull,it's when we give them more attention than God. In Him, lionheart |
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2 | Animals in the New Testament? | Prov 12:12 | MWLaine | 187377 | ||
Lionheart, stjohn, and others, All of you who have helped in my edification on this issue deserve thanks. You are all my family members in Christ and as my family members I expected and recieved help on thrashing through what was happening in my spiritual life based on a disagreement with my sister over an animal. I had a disagreement with my sister on the length a person should go in providing Medical Attention to a pregnant cat. She had felt that the gestational period of the animal had been overshot and took the cat to a vet who wants to perform a C-Section delivery of the kittens. After delivery the vet was saying he was sure the cat is having trouble producing milk for the kittens and some alternate means of feeding them would have to occur. I responded to her that God made the animal to have kittens naturally and maybe she should just allow the cat to do what God had designed it to do. Were the cat to live or die I felt that God's Will be done. This got me called Hard-Hearted and told that anyone who would so torture or kill an animal would not slide gracefully into heaven. I don't think either of her comments were valid but Romans 14 puts me in a position in which I know I am right but why have the argument with someone who is at a different Christian maturity level. In the end I apologized for my callous words and asked "How about them Colts???". My position is known to all who have read these posts so I appreciate the call to Matthew 6:13 and Romans 14 and finally the truth that even the cats and dogs, living in the home, of a person who has found salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ benefit from the this persons new outlook on life. Well said and very edifying. |
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3 | Animals in the New Testament? | Prov 12:12 | DocTrinsograce | 187380 | ||
Dear MW, What can I say? Been there, done that! :-) I can empathize! I have had almost identical discussions with people. Ended them the same way, too... well, I said "Cowboys" rather than "Colts!" :-) I had about 20 milk goats. In feeding them I used to get them to eat in a certain order. The pregnant nannies first. Now, you can't talk to a goat. Goats don't communicate commands to one another via sound. They communicate by being rough with one another. Consequently, I used to use a long, axe handle. When I popped them and prodded them, they understood and got with the program. However, I got a lot of criticism for being "mean to the goats." Of course, the criticisms only came from those who had no clue about the nature of goats. (I also butchered quite a few baby billy goats. I enjoyed playing with them, too, but every animal on a farm has to pay for itself.) In the case of your sister, though, another verse comes to mind: "Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me?" (Matthew 20:15a ESV) This is one of the verse on which free enterprise is based. We may not agree with the sagacity of your sisters choice, but she does nothing wrong by expending resources on her cat. Indeed, if she did not, then she would violating her own conscience (cf Romans 14). These sorts of things only take place because we are a prosperous society. Thank you for an interesting discussion. In Him, Doc |
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