Animal Consumption, Cannibalism, and the Christ of Mercy. By Dr Chapman Chen
On 9 October 2026, the Facebook group Ancient Essene Wisdom for the 21st Century published an image (note 1) bearing the following text:
The false Yahweh...had long demanded human sacrifice, and now also encouraged cannibalism.
Yea, he told his Priests:
“By this shall all men know that you are my disciples,
That you eat human flesh and drink human blood.
For this is the bread and wine of my covenant.
Do this in remembrance of me.”
And so cannibalism had begun to spread throughout the land.
FOR HAVING FIRST EATEN ANIMAL FLESH, IT WAS NOT SO HARD TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.
The Book of Noah 2:56-61
The Holy Megillah: The Nasarean Bible of the Essene Way
Translated by Day of Greenleaf - Available at essene. org
Below please find my response:
The passage attributed to The Book of Noah 2:56–61 comes from The Holy Megillah, a modern religious reconstruction, not an authenticated ancient Book of Noah. Nevertheless, its underlying argument has important parallels in ancient literature.
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book XV:453-478)), Pythagoras is portrayed as warning that killing animals desensitises human beings to bloodshed, gradually eroding their moral resistance to killing fellow humans. He asks: “What evil they contrive, how impiously they prepare to shed human blood itself, who rip at a calf’s throat with the knife, and listen unmoved to its bleating, or can kill a kid to eat that cries like a child, or feed on a bird, that they themselves have fed! How far does that fall short of actual murder?” (note 2)
Likewise, 1 Enoch 7:3–6 depicts the carnivorous giants descending into escalating violence against humans, birds, beasts, reptiles and fish. Significantly, animals are portrayed as creatures against whom sin can be committed, not merely objects for human consumption.
Yet the image misleadingly attributes the flesh-and-blood Eucharist to Jesus. In my interpretation, the original Last Supper was a thanksgiving meal of bread and the fruit of the vine, anticipating the Kingdom of God (Luke 22:15–18), not a ritual of symbolic cannibalism (note 3). The Torah expressly forbids consuming blood (Lev. 17:10–14), and Jesus declared that He came not to abolish the Law but to fulfil it (Matt. 5:17).
Above all, Jesus twice proclaimed, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice” (Matt. 9:13; 12:7; cf. Hos. 6:6). His confrontation with the Temple's sacrificial economy embodied this principle.
The essential distinction is between a religion that takes innocent lives to satisfy human appetites and the Vegan Christ who gives His own life to protect the vulnerable.
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