27 March 2016
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It's Good to Eat Meat from Animals (TMF:375)

Friday, April 01, 2016
Peace to Live By: It's Good to Eat Meat from Animals (TMF:375) - Daniel Litton
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       We note from this text that God gave “every green plant for food.” So, humans were originally created as vegetarians. Now, some of you who are vegetarians today will surely like this. Being a vegetarian is a healthy way to live. But, remember, nowadays God gives us, as humans, all animals to eat. It’s okay to eat them. We read the following in Acts chapter 11 the following from the Apostle Peter. In this text, he is talking about a vision he had just had: “Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air. And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’ But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common’ (Acts 11:6-9, ESV). So, God makes it clear that it’s good to eat meat from animals. God provides us meat and it should be accepted with thanksgiving.

God Gives Every Green Plant for Food (TMF:374)

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Gives Every Green Plant for Food (TMF:374) - Daniel Litton
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       For let’s continue the text. Notice how it says “them”: “And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” We note from this text that God gave “every green plant for food.” So, humans were originally created as vegetarians. Now, some of you who are vegetarians today will surely like this. Being a vegetarian is a healthy way to live. But, remember, nowadays God gives us, as humans, all animals to eat. It’s okay to eat them.

Was Eve Created the Same Day as Adam? (TMF:373)

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Peace to Live By: Was Eve Created the Same Day as Adam? (TMF:373) - Daniel Litton
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       But how do we know Eve was created on Day Six with Adam? The creation of Eve by God is discussed in more detail in Genesis chapter 2. But this text does not seem to indicate it was the same day as Adam. However, we know it was the same day from a verse in Genesis chapter 5 and verses 1 and 2, of which it says, “In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created” (1-2ex, KJV). This text, then, clearly shows us that Eve was created on the same day as Adam. Really, though, that’s not even necessary, for let’s continue the text. Notice how it says “them”: “And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.”

God Creates a Man & Woman (TMF:372)

Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Creates a Man & Woman (TMF:372) - Daniel Litton
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       But God didn’t stop on Day Six with the creation of the land animals. The Bible also tells us that God created a man and a woman on the sixth day. We read, continuing in the passage: “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Continuing on Day Six, first God created a man. Now, man was created superior to the rest of the creation, and not equal to the rest of the creation. Men and women are superior beings. Now, God gave mankind dominion, and he did this “over” all of the created plants and animals. That is why—in this day and age—man is able to eat animal. Animal should not freely eat man, but man can freely eat animal. Men and women can have farms whereby they raise animals. They can tame animals for their own purposes, like we have domesticated dogs and cats. They can breed animals for their purposes.

Let's Talk About the Dinosaurs (TMF:371)

Monday, March 28, 2016
Peace to Live By: Let's Talk About the Dinosaurs (TMF:371) - Daniel Litton
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       I want to take a moment here and talk about dinosaurs. According to what we just read about creation Day Six, dinosaurs had to be created on that day. This means that they lived alongside humans beings at least until the Flood of Noah. But how could dinosaurs live alongside humans and the humans live? I don’t think its fair to say that dinosaurs and humans lived in the same areas, though, they obviously crossed paths with each other from time to time. Let’s look at what is written in the Book of Job about one particular dinosaur. This is the Lord God speaking: ““Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!” (Job 40:15-19, ESV). So, this particular dinosaur was a vegetarian, and probably was the Sauropoda as we call it today.