Vegetables.

I'm sorry I haven't written in a long time. I'm a failure as a blogger. I try my best, but the life of a college student is CRAZY!

So, you might be wondering why I'm talking about vegetables today. Here's my question: Were Adam and Eve vegetarians?

This question was forming as I was reading Isaiah 11:6-9. "the wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat..." I am assuming here that he is talking about the second coming of Christ--when he reigns over the earth. But was it like that before sin entered the world?

In Genesis 1:29, it says, "Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earty and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.'" He never says anything about the animals. Later on, in Genesis 9, God is speaking to Noah and says, "Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything."

Is it possible that no one ate meat until after the flood? Did God, perhaps need to cleanse all the animals to make them edible?

My roommate disagrees with my theories, and I see her points. She says that the Bible specifically mentions how Abel is a shepherd. And why would there be sheperds if there weren't sheep, meant for eating? (Although the sheep could be used for other things, like milk, wool, and sacrifices.) Also, aren't our bodies made to eat meat? Why would it be this way unless God specifically made us to eat meat--even before the fall?

I don't know, it's a very interesting topic. What do you think?

Genesis 9

Is Abortion Ever Justified?

Okay, well, I don't know if you knew this or not, but I actually have 2 blogs. I was trying to decide whether to get a blog on Blogger or on Wordpress, so I got this one, and on Wordpress I have a blog describing my pro-life views. I am finding that A LOT of time is needed to have 2 blogs, so I am (horribly) just copying-and-pasting my last blog entry...

I know that many people struggle with deciding whether or not abortion is right when the mother is in risk. All of the ‘hard data’ that I am about to share with you was recieved at http://abort73.com/index.php?/end_abortion/is_abortion_ever_justified, which is a pro-life website (for your consideration).

Before saying anything else, I want to give you some basics. It is VERY RARE that abortion can be used as to save the life of the mother. Former Surgeon General Everett Koop stated in the New York Times in 1996 that because of the advances in modern medicine, “partial-birth abortions are not needed to save the life of the mother.” Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Alan Guttmacher said that today it is possible for “almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save, life.”

When the life of the mother is threatened by pregnancy, everything should be done to protect the life of the mother AND her child. A child is not something that should be thrown away. During the last half of the pregnancy, the pregnancy can be ended by inducing labor and using neonatal care to save the life of the child (outside of the womb).

Now, according to the most recent report from the Centers for Disease Control, the oveall, pregnancy-related mortality rate in the US is .000118%. For every pregnancy-related death, there are 8,475 successful, live births. Therefore, one has to ask oneself, “Is a .000118% risk to the life of the mother enough to MORALLY JUSTIFY abortion?”

That is something to consider.