-
Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.
If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!
To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
D
I had a conversation about this with some other christian hunters. We are to manage wildlife the way we see fit to keep the animals in check. This keeps diseases and other wildlife in balance. Hunting is part of life either for food or for conservation purposes as God intended us to be in control over all the animals on earth.
If you hunt, kill and then let it rot, UNLESS IT IS AN INVASIVE, FERAL OR PEST SPECIES, then YES, it is wrong.
However, it is more of a moral judgement than a Christian principle.
Not for the past 8 years we haven't.
And what in the heck has that got to do with this subject?
What a profoundly Christian sentiment. Not!
Let's just generalise everyone with a conservation leaning as homosexual, shall we!
You sir, are an idiot.
However, it is more of a moral judgement than a Christian principle.
Not for the past 8 years we haven't.
And what in the heck has that got to do with this subject?
What a profoundly Christian sentiment. Not!
Let's just generalise everyone with a conservation leaning as homosexual, shall we!
You sir, are an idiot.
The Bible says this:
Prov 12:10 "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."
Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley
The General Deliverance:
Reason, set aside that ambiguous term: exchange it for the plain word, understanding: and who can deny that brutes have this? We may as well deny that they have sight or hearing.
Something better remains after death for those poor creatures also.
It may enlarge our hearts towards those poor creatures, to reflect that, as vile as they appear in our eyes, not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven. Through all the vanity to which they are now subjected, let us look to what God hath prepared for them. Yea, let us habituate ourselves to look forward, beyond this present scene of bondage, to the happy time when they will be delivered therefrom, into the liberty of the children of God.
William Wilberforce was inspired by John Wesley and consequently he co-founded the SPCA.
God has given us animals for food, for helping us work and for companionship. He wants us to respect them.
Quest
Prov 12:10 "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."
Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley
The General Deliverance:
Reason, set aside that ambiguous term: exchange it for the plain word, understanding: and who can deny that brutes have this? We may as well deny that they have sight or hearing.
Something better remains after death for those poor creatures also.
It may enlarge our hearts towards those poor creatures, to reflect that, as vile as they appear in our eyes, not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven. Through all the vanity to which they are now subjected, let us look to what God hath prepared for them. Yea, let us habituate ourselves to look forward, beyond this present scene of bondage, to the happy time when they will be delivered therefrom, into the liberty of the children of God.
William Wilberforce was inspired by John Wesley and consequently he co-founded the SPCA.
God has given us animals for food, for helping us work and for companionship. He wants us to respect them.
Quest
Hm. My take on it comes from Proverbs 12:10. Now I know about Genesis 1:28, too, but I don't believe God intended for us to kill off parts of his creation for pure pleasure. In the Proverbs passage he is implying we should at least take care of our own animals. I've never been hunting, myself, but the folks that raised me have taught me to not let the animal go to waste once you kill it. You know - skin, gut, cook, eat. I still like firing guns. Everyone where I live is a big hunting freak. I've even thought about using a paintball gun on a deer... but I've never gotten around to it. I wonder what the hunters would think if they saw a buck come bounding out of the brush with orange paint marks all over him. Who knows.. Maybe the orange would save its life? 
Nah. They'd probably rack it up as animal cruelty, slap me on the wrist and then let the hunters shoot it dead.
Nah. They'd probably rack it up as animal cruelty, slap me on the wrist and then let the hunters shoot it dead.