Ok it's late and Im bored and this might ramble a bit but I got to thinking, The WBTS always proposes that everyone, b/f God gave Noah permission to eat meat, was vegeterian. Witnesses always talk about how in the New System we will all go back to being vegeterian since I think in Isaiah it says the the lion or wolf will graze and eat grass like the lamb or something and it was never Gods plan for us to eat meat.
This doesn't sound right to me. Why would God make animals begin to eat each other if it was not according to his plan? If all the nutrients that the animals needed could be consumed soley through plants b/f the flood how would that change after the flood. Some might say the world was perfect b/f Adam's sin so now the animals needed suplemental nutrition now that they were no longer in the garden of Eden, but for one imperfection was only passed down to humans b/c only humans had sinned. Animals r not imperfect and plants and vegetation certainly are not. Recently, plants and animals have suffered b/c of man-made pollution which makes them deformed and stuff but the industrial age was long after the flood so it stands to reason that both plants and animals were being produced @ the same level of quality that they existed @ in the garden of Eden. Second, the flood was centuries I think actually millenea after Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden of eden so if animals and humans could exist for thousands of years on a strictly vegan diet after the fall of the garden of Eden why couldn't they continue existing that way after the flood? What changed? Some might say that the flood caused all of the vegetation to die so they would have had nothing to eat. Well, what did all the herbivores on the Ark eat during the days immediately after the flood. If there was enough vegetation for some animals, who continued to exist down to this day as herbivores, to survive why wasn't there enough vegetation for the rest of the animals that became carnivores and omnivores to survive? Why did their dietary requirements all of a sudden necesitate the use of meat?
Another strange thing to me is that the bible says god took a rest on the 7th day. This is interpreted as a rest from his creative works. The WBTS says that he has not created anything since. Well, if he hasn't created anything since how did all the predators in the world get sharp teeth and fangs. If they were strictly on vegan diets wouldn't they have had large flat molars like bovines and horses and other grazing animals? How did the snake get his fangs, venom, and a detachable jaw? What would he have used those things for in the Garden of Eden? Paralyzing and then swallowing whole watermelons? Why would insects all of a sudden need to hunt and kill each other? Why would ants be given poisen stingers and instinct to work in groups to subdue prey 1000s of times larger than themselves?
And the explanation has always been that humans and animals needed extra nutrients that only meat could provide (which is queer because present day vegans have shown that a very healthy, albiet @ times extremely pale, skinny and sallow, existence can be had w/out any incorporation of animal based products in one's diet), but WHY IN THE HELL DOES THE VENUS FLYTRAP EXIST? The existance of this plant defys all explanations given in my mind. I mean it eats insect and has a very complex way of attracting, consuming and digesting them. Why would this plant or how could this plant have existed in the garden of Eden? Why would one plant require the consumption of other life forms when the rest of the plant kingdom is perfectly fine w/ getting nutrients from the soil and through photosynthesis. And if God gave the Venus Flytap the ability to do this after the flood than how the heck does that not count as an act of creation? If God basically reworked all carnivorous and omnivorous creatures from being herbivores to their present state how can the WBTS say that he rested on the 7th day and has rested since?
Ok I got that all out and Im not even going to ask that u read this but now I think I can go to sleep. I know that Im going to read this in the morning..well later in the morning and none of it will make any sense but I just had to get it out. thanx.