Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on September 22, 2018, 06:53:44 PM

Quote from: CoinCube on September 22, 2018, 06:36:18 PM

Are you equally torn up about the millions of animals killed in terror every day to feed humanity or the plants ripped from the ground and consumed to feed those animals?

You completely dodged the point. It would also have been equally trivial for an omnipotent god to create a human that did not require to eat any living thing for sustenance.

But God did it the way He did because of the enjoyment to be found in doing things, with a wide variety of things available to do. God made some living things to be eaten, and to be filled with joy and ecstasy when they are eaten... and joy for the eaters, as well.

Consider. A plant is a much lower life form than a human. A plant will never become anywhere as great or as capable as a human. But the plant will become great like a human if a human eats the plant.

Consider Matthew 13:30:

Quote from: https://biblehub.com/matthew/13-30.htm

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.

Read the whole chapter to get the setting of the parable this passage is taken from - https://biblehub.com/niv/matthew/13.htm.

The point is "then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn." What happens to wheat that is gathered into a barn? People grind it into flower, bake bread, and eat it. Those of us who are saved are going to be absorbed into God... into greatness that we can barely understand anything about at all... even though the pain of grinding in this life isn't always fun. Those who are weeds will be collected, tied and burned.

Take your pick. You still have time to become one with God. Change your way, and believe in Jesus-salvation.

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