{"id":61269,"date":"2005-06-09T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=61269"},"modified":"2023-06-09T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T02:19:46","slug":"notes-on-animal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/notes-on-animal-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Animal Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Kindness Necessary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Exodus 23:5<\/strong>\u00a0If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exodus 23:12\u00a0<\/strong>Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deuteronomy 22:6-7\u00a0<\/strong>If a bird&#8217;s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deuteronomy 25:4\u00a0<\/strong>You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Proverbs 12:10\u00a0<\/strong>A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luke 15:4-6<\/strong>\u00a0What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, &#8216;Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Animals Kept as Pets<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>II Samuel 12:1-6<\/strong>\u00a0Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: &#8220;There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man&#8217;s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.&#8221; So David&#8217;s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, &#8220;As the LORD lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Job 41:5<\/strong>\u00a0Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Raising Animals for Use by Humans<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Proverbs 27:23-27\u00a0<\/strong>Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, And attend to your herds; For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations. When the hay is removed, and the tender grass shows itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in, The lambs will provide your clothing, And the goats the price of a field; You shall have enough goats&#8217; milk for your food, For the food of your household, And the nourishment of your maidservants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Corinthians 9:7<\/strong>\u00a0Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Subordinate to Humans<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genesis 1:28<\/strong>\u00a0Then God blessed them, and God said to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genesis 21:20<\/strong>\u00a0So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genesis 27:1-4<\/strong>\u00a0Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, &#8220;My son.&#8221; And he answered him, &#8220;Here I am.&#8221; Then he said, &#8220;Behold now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death. Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leviticus 24:21<\/strong>\u00a0And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Psalm 8:3-9<\/strong>\u00a0When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen-Even the beasts of the field, The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Psalm 115:16<\/strong>\u00a0The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD&#8217;S; But the earth He has given to the children of men.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew 6:26<\/strong>\u00a0Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew 12:11-12<\/strong>\u00a0Then He said to them, &#8220;What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark 5:13<\/strong>\u00a0And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Hunting<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Leviticus 17:13<\/strong>\u00a0Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Proverbs 12:27<\/strong>\u00a0The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, But diligence is man&#8217;s precious possession.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acts 10:10-16<\/strong>\u00a0Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth. In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. And a voice came to him, &#8220;Rise, Peter; kill and eat.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Luke 5:4-6<\/strong>\u00a0When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, &#8220;Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.&#8221; But Simon answered and said to Him, &#8220;Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.&#8221; So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Killing Animals for Protection<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Exodus 21:28-29<\/strong>\u00a0If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted. But if the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past, and it has been made known to his owner, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Samuel 17:34-37<\/strong>\u00a0But David said to Saul, &#8220;Your servant used to keep his father&#8217;s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.&#8221; Moreover David said, &#8220;The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.&#8221; And Saul said to David, &#8220;Go, and the LORD be with you!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acts 28:3, 5<\/strong>\u00a0But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. &#8230; But he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Use of Animals for Clothing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genesis 3:21<\/strong>\u00a0Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leviticus 13:47-49<\/strong>\u00a0Also, if a garment has a leprous plague in it, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment, whether it is in the warp or woof of linen or wool, whether in leather or in anything made of leather, and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a leprous plague and shall be shown to the priest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>II Kings 1:8<\/strong>\u00a0So they answered him, &#8220;A hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist.&#8221; And he said, &#8220;It is Elijah the Tishbite.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew 3:4<\/strong>\u00a0And John himself was clothed in camel&#8217;s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acts 10:6<\/strong>\u00a0He is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea. He will tell you what you must do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hebrews 11:37\u00a0<\/strong>They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Use of Animals for Shelter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Exodus 39:33-34\u00a0<\/strong>And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of badger skins, and the veil of the covering;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Use of Animals for Containers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genesis 21:14<\/strong>\u00a0So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Samuel 16:20<\/strong>\u00a0And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by his son David to Saul.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Use of Animals for Work<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I Samuel 16:20<\/strong>\u00a0And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by his son David to Saul.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew 21:7<\/strong>\u00a0They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindness Necessary Exodus 23:5\u00a0If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it. Exodus 23:12\u00a0Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-61269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-animal-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9473,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-does-god-say-about-respect-for-life-and-his-creation\/","url_meta":{"origin":61269,"position":0},"title":"What does God say about respect for life and His creation?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I just read your article, \"Did Jesus Eat Meat?\", and I have a question that I know I could find an answer to, but an educated perspective will be even better, in addition to my own research. 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