To say Jesus was a vegetarian is to completely deny the entire Culture and Religion in which He was Born and the method in which they practiced said Religion. Jesus followed the Law of Abraham which was inclusive of following the dietary and the Holy Day feasts, which without a doubt required Jesus and everyone else who followed and celebrated these Holy Days to eat meat.
It is willful ignorance to declare that Jesus was a vegetarian, its to completely ignore what is clearly laid out in Scriptures concerning how Jesus lived. I mean you can see it in the responses here, just outright willful ignorance of Scriptures that spell out the fact that Jesus ate meat and fish and used them to feed others. Such as saying Matt 3 is a mistranslation, utterly ridiculous logic there. Here is the actual Greek Word:
200. akris a locust
This same word is also used in Revelations
Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Would you like to tell me that out of the smoke came bread cakes? Get out of here, that is complete and total nonsense, while one may think that Locus and the bread you are speaking about can be easily mistaken in ENGLISH, there is absolutely no way that it would be mistaken in GREEK. So no sorry there wasnt a mistranslation, the Greek is clear, John ate Locusts which of course rejects the OP premise that he or Jesus or any of the other Early Christians were Vegetarians.
As for Jesus and Him being against the Sacrificial System, again everyone who tries to make this point is willfully ignorant concerning Jesus. He literally followed the Law of Moses, He was taken into the temple as a Child why? To follow the Law of Moses that says He was to circumcised.
He went to the Temple to Sacrifice Animals with His family, do you people just pretend that these things are not in the Scriptures to cling to your False Religions and lies about Jesus?
Luke 2:21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord
24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
If the Old Testament God is Satan as Art the not Christian says, then why on Earth would God deliver Jesus to people who were 100% faithful in following EXACTLY the Laws that were laid out by Abraham? If Jesus was so against the Sacrificial System and the Law of Abraham then why on Earth is He recorded over and over celebrating and following these Holy Days and Laws?
How about John, what was his father doing when he was told he was going to have him?
Luke 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
He was a priest in the Lords house for goodness sake!! Do you all even grasp what that man was doing day in and day out? And the God of that temple sent His Angel, the Angel Gabriel, while the man was literally preparing to Sacrifice Animals, to tell him that he was going to have John. And what did the Angel of the Lord of THAT Temple, the one that created the Laws for Sacrificing Animals tell him John was going to do?
Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
This Angel who was sent by the God of the Temple in Israel, the one that created the Law of Moses and the Sacrificial System , came to Johns Father, who was literally a PRIEST for the OLD TESTAMENT GOD, and that angel said John would be the one to prepare the way in the power of Elijah, a PROPHET for the God of Abraham (the one that set up the Sacrificial System, of which Elijah KEPT HIMSELF) for the Lord Jesus Christ.
The illogical logic that some of you possess to make the claims you do concerning who Jesus was, who John was and what God they served is mind boggling. Jesus and John both served the same exact God that created the Temple, and the Sacrificial System, the one that visited a PRIEST to tell him about his son in the MIDDLE of the Temple.
And besides that, once again it is completely and totally illogical to deny that it was God and say it was Satan that set up the Sacrificial System, when Jesus came and did LITERALLY everything that was set out in the Old Testament, for Sacrifices HIMSELF.
Heb 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
If you dont understand the Scriptures here, in short it says that the Temple was laid out as a PATTERN of what is in Heaven, and that everything in the Law that the Priests were doing were all foreshadowing what was to come. It then tells us that Jesus Christ Himself followed identically the same exact PATTERN that the High Priests did on the Day of Atonement, where they took the Blood of the Sacrifice and entered into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled Blood on the Altar for the forgiveness of Sins.
Jesus Himself went into the REAL Holy of Holies, which the Temple was a PATTERN of, and He Himself took HIS BLOOD because He was the Sacrifice, and put it on the Altar of God, so that we all who have Faith in Him can have their Sins forgiven.
So it is 100% illogical and willfully ignorant to continue to assert that Jesus was against the Sacrificial System as He LITERALLY followed in the place of the High Priests and Sacrificed Himself and then put His Blood on the Altar in the Holiest place for Redemption of Sin. The God of the Old Testament purposefully created the Sacrificial System to lay out the method in which Christ would come to Redeem the World. All of this is insanely retarded to do if that God is Satan and wants to keep others in bondage..
Hi Im Satan and I want everyone in bondage to me, so I am going to set up a System that first off at that time allows you to be clean from your Sins because of the Death and Sacrifice of the Animals, then in that System I will show the method in which the person SUPPOSEDLY coming to defeat me and set everyone free is going to 100% follow and thus defeat me.
Here is what Scriptures says about Christ and His Sacrifice:
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The God that Jesus served, He had all of this, the creation and use of the Sacrificial System, the sending of His Son to be the final Sacrifice, all planned before the World even came into existence. Yet people on this site want to say that Jesus was against the Sacrificial System? You must be thick...
