Part of the attack on Christianity is deconstructing the Bible, changing the language to fit the times. Leftists do it to the Constitution to pass laws that are in violation of the Constitution. Leftists in the Christian community do the same by agreeing to change the language of the Bible. There have been attempts to make scripture gender neutral for example, and now some alleged Christians are siding with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to change scripture because it’s “speciesist". These knuckleheads even make up words to create an issue.
PETA and their supporters in the Christian community think using ‘it” to identify an animal is wrong, and animals should be identified as ‘he’ and ‘she’. There’s lots of animals in the Bible. Would giving them a gender, that in the case of the Torah and the rest of the Old Testament, give more meaning and understanding to God’s Word?
Bruce Friedrich is PETA's vice president for policy, and claims to be a practicing Roman Catholic. How one could be an animal worshipper and Christian at the same time mystifies. He’s said some ridiculous things, and obviously doesn’t understand the meaning of Scripture.
Some of his observations:
"Language matters. Calling an animal 'it' denies them something. They are beloved by God. They glorify God." How do they glorify God? Do they pray, sing hymns, feed and clothe the poor? Glory in the Biblical sense means recognizing God's divine quality. How would an animal to that?
“What happens in slaughterhouses mocks God.” People know intuitively that "animals are 'who' not 'what.' ... Acknowledging it would better align our practices with our beliefs.” God requested a lot of animals to be sacrificed to Him. So I suppose He was having that done to mock Himself? Animals are understood to be who? Who was that masked raccoon? What practices and beliefs is this guy aligning?
“God’s covenant is with humans and animals. God cares about animals." I would think that’s a rather unanimous opinion among biblical scholars today, where that might not have been the case 200 years ago.” The second part of the quote is just made up nonsense. Of course God cares about everything in His creation. What He doesn’t have, is a covenant with animals. A covenant is an agreement between two people or groups of people, and they make a promise to each other, usually for a lifetime. People 200 years ago didn't think God cared about animals? What?
Then there’s a covenant between God and people, Again it’s an agreement. God made a covenant with Noah not to flood the Earth again. He made a covenant with David, He made a covenant with Abraham. Don’t read about any covenants where animals and God agreed to things. In CS Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, the lion had a covenant that he would sacrifice himself, but that’s fiction, which is what PETA and all the rest want to do with the Bible; turn it into a piece of fiction. In real life, Jesus did in fact sacrifice himself. Don't suppose PETA and their supporters can wrap their souls around that. I wonder, taking a poll, how many PETA member and Gaia worshipers are Christians? My bet would be they are anti-Christian bigots, atheists, pagan Gaia and animal worshipers.
The word itself, covenant, comes from the Hebrew word “to cut”. People in those days would cut a piece of meat, whether a he or she animal we don’t know, to seal an agreement. Sometimes they would share a meal of meat, he or she we don’t know, to seal a deal. Animal blood, he or she we don’t know, was sprinkled on altars to seal a covenant. I’ll bet all those sacrificed animals, he or she we don’t know, didn't have a covenant with God to be sacrificed.
Then there’s the problem of language. Gender specific terms are used differently in ancient languages than in modern languages. The PETA people and their supporters would just have to make stuff up again. Every time there’s an animal mentioned in the Bible, instead of ‘it’ there will be ‘he or she’. Really?
Which brings us back around to people that need to destroy tradition to gain power for themselves. Need to destroy the Constitution and the Bible…that would be quite effective, and there are people that claim to be Christians and Jews who will go right along with this.
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