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NASB | Proverbs 12:12 The wicked man desires the booty of evil men, But the root of the righteous yields fruit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, But the root of the righteous yields richer fruit. |
Subject: Animals in the New Testament? |
Bible Note: 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. |