Put down your Evil Knives; Follow the Vegan Christ! By Dr. Chapman Chen

“I desire COMPASSION, rather than sacrifice,” stresses Jesus (Matthew 9:13 NASB).

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full,” says Jesus (John 10:10 NIV).

Jesus warns against flesh-eating:- “Now beware in yourselves that your hearts do not become heavy with the eating of flesh…” (Luke 21:34, Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe — Old Syriac-Aramaic Manuscript of the New Testament Gospels).

Also, in Saying 87, the Gospel of Thomas, as translated and edited by Stevan Davies (2002), Jesus asserts, "Wretched is a body depending on a body". Now, how can a body be dependent on another body? Only if the body eats the other body.

Ultimately and most importantly, Jesus was a pioneer and martyr for animal liberation. Prior to the Last Supper, Jesus, in emptying the Temple of animals about to be slaughtered for sacrifice, and in calling the Temple-turned-butcher-shop "a den of thieves", debunked the business fraud of animal sacrifice and disrupted the chief priests' and scribes' lucrative revenue stream, who immediately afterwards conspired to destroy Him (Mark 11:15-18), eventually leading to His arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection on Easter (cf. Akers 2000).

So, put down your evil knives and follow the Vegan Christ!

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