The leather industry is often portrayed as natural, traditional, and even environmentally friendly. Yet behind every leather jacket, handbag, belt, pair of shoes, or watch strap lies the suffering and death of a sentient creature. From a biblical perspective, Christians should ask a simple question: Would the God of love approve of animals being abused and killed merely to satisfy human fashion? The answer is surely no. 1. Veganism as Prescribed by God Scripture begins with a

Introduction: Around 25 AD, Mary Magdalene, afflicted by “seven demons”, and having heard of Jesus’ name as a rabbi who had cured many sick and possessed people, walked ten hard miles from her home in Magdala to Capernaum, in order to seek Jesus out and beg Him to save her. Jesus then cast the demons out (Mark 16:9), and healed Mary “of evil spirits and infirmities” (Luke 8:2). This was the beginning of a beautiful relationship and an everlasting bond. In the first century, i

6. Fake Christians who Fattened Themselves in the Day of Slaughter James, the brother of Jesus and Jude, lashes out at the Pauline camp with no less intensity than Jude. James says to those Pauline “Christians” who are not truly compassionate in all their ways, “You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened (trephó) yourselves in the day of slaughter” (James 5:5 NIV). The Greek word, trephó, per Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, means fatten, and, by

Summary: Both Jude and James are Jesus’ natural brothers. Jude implies that Paul has sneakily crept into vegan Christianity (Jude 1:4-5), that the Pauline camp rail at veganism which they fail to understand, that they corrupt themselves by “understanding” animals physically (phusikós) (Jude 1:10) (cf. Holmes-Gore 1946, pp. 18-19), that they are evil-doers like Cain (Jude 1:10-12), and that they are “hidden rocks” in Jesus’ vegan Eucharist, as well as shepherds that feed thems