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HEY, PETA: God Gave Man Stewardship Over Animals Which Entails Hunting & Eating Them

Here is an excerpt from Doug Giles’ new book, Rise, Kill and Eat: A Theology of Hunting from Genesis to Revelation:

The Bible is crystal clear that there is a big, whopping, distinction between man and animals, although I’ll grant you sometimes men act like animals and vice versa. (Gen. 1:20-28; Ps. 50:10,11; Jer. 27:5; 1 Cor. 1 :25,26)

Oh, BTW, every time men acted like a beast, God didn’t praise them but condemned them because, hello, God expects more from men than monkeys because men, not animals, were created in his image and are commanded to follow his ways. Duh. (Job 35:10,11; Ps. 32:9; Ps. 73:22; Prov. 26:3; Eccl. 12:13,14; Mt. 28:18-20; Heb. 9:27)

Oh, and one more BTW, Jesus died to save men not animals. Just an FYI, in case you were muddy on that issue. (Isa. 53:5,8; Rom. 5:12-19; 1 Tim. 2:4-6)

Look, both men and animals were created by God and are his, but he gave the stewardship role over the created order to men not raccoons. Can you imagine if raccoons ran everything? This place would be more jacked up than the United States under Obama’s care, maybe.

Now, just because man has dominion over the critters doesn’t mean he’s to abuse them. The Scripture’s replete with instructions regarding how mankind is to care for the planet’s four- footed, feathered and finny friends.

That said, there’s an allotment for the domestication of animals and the hunting of animals and the Bible is chock-full of holy folks that owned livestock, fished and hunted and made clothing out of their hides; and there’s not one gnarly passage that condemns any of the aforementioned. (Exo. 21:28,29; Dt. 22:1-4; 1 Sam. 12:3; Job 1:3; Isa. 1:3; Lk. 10:34; Lk. 19:30-35; Jn. 10:1-14)

The abuses of the created order comes when men detach themselves from the Scriptural edicts of the proper treatment of the earth and its natural resources and not when it attaches itself to the dictates of the Verbum Dei.

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Doug Giles

Doug Giles is Pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Wimberley, TX, and is the founder of ClashDaily.com (290M+ page views). Giles is also the author of the NEW book, The Wildman Devotional: A 50 Day Devotional For Men. Follow Doug on Instagram and Truth Social at @thegilesway and on Twitter @TheArtOfDoug.

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