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CHRISTIANITY AND ANIMALS Among the ten commandments that Jahveh gave Moses on Mount Sinai,there is the one that exhorts us not to kill. However,if we think about it carefully,this a generic commandments bicause He does not tell us,as happens in the tenth commandment where He specifically tells us not to desire our neighbour's house, wife,servants and animals,whom we must not kill. Why is Jahveh generic in the sixth commandment? Because He does not,obviously,interpret this commandment as meaning humanity! While this commandment to us means "thou shall not kill other people",Jahveh interprets it as meaning "thou shall not kill other living beings",and therefore not only human beings but also animals. Proof that this is the correct interpretation of the sixth commandment is to befound in Genesis,which states that in the Garden of Eden there were no carnivorous animals,including the human couple,but only herbivorous animals " ... And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so ..." (Genesis 1:29)
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