By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew
“My favorite book in the Bible is the book of Genesis. It provides amazing facts about our origins, one of which is that before the great Flood people only ate plant-based food. Afterward, God gave permission to eat meat.
“John Calvin, in his commentaries on Genesis, emphasizes that this change reflected a broader shift in the relationship between humans and the rest of creation due to sin. Calvin said:
‘Before the flood, men were sustained only by the fruits of the earth; after the flood, they were permitted to use animal food, which was a new thing, and perhaps at first regarded with some repugnance.’
“If Calvin’s conjecture was right, it sounds like the first members of PETA might have been stowaways on Noah’s Ark!”
-Rev. Mark Creech
