The benefits of eating bugs

The Week ^ | March 1, 2014 | Daniella Martin

[imardmd1]

I don't think that it's too much of a stretch to assume that the flock was used for food, . . .

Yep. That is too much of a stretch, IMHO. That is not what the context calls for. There was no death before Adam's disobedience. By man came death, not vice versa.

Mankind was not eating flesh meat until after the flood they survived. That has been in force since then. From Adam's sin, up through Noah's time, people became a little more careful about what they were eating.

No sin was forgiven without a blood sacrifice. Obviously, Elohim did not accept vegetables as a substitute. The blood covered their sins, and the sheep skins covered their bodies as clothing.

But when the Messiah's earthly kingdom is established, the original practices will be reinstituted. See Isaiah 65:18-25.

But you see how the concept of theistic evolution turns a blind eye to these impossible contradictions, and is not a workable solution.

[matthew fuller]

"Mankind was not eating flesh meat until after the flood they survived. "

Is that somewhere in the Bible?

[imardmd1]

Conch . . .

Cheap and plentiful . . . in restaurants in Puerto Rico. It's the air fare that's expensive, to go there or bring it here, I'd bet. < big grin >

[imardmd1]

Yes. I gave you the central references, and encourage that you read through the context, Genesis 1:1 through to 9:7, especially 1:29-30 as compared to 9:3. It's not a big project.

(Please note that in the KJV or DRB Bibles with language of the 17th century, the word "meat" means what you and I call "food." In our language today, the "meat" only means "animal flesh, not "food" in the general sense." When reading these translations, put our word "food" in where those translators used "meat.")

[matthew fuller]

OK, I got it- meat doesn’t mean meat. Now I understand.

[imardmd1]

Very good. That gets a lot of readers new to the KJV or DRB, as do several other terms which were clear to the public of the translators 400 years ago, but confusing to us where the definitions have since changed, but which we are not aware of until we have done a little research.

Here's another curious one:

To us, "prevent" means "to stop" or "to keep something from happening." But to the DRB or KJV translators, "pre-" meant "before", and "-vent" meant "go" (from the Latin verb venire = "to go"). So to them, "prevent" meant "go before". To give the right sense, we should replace it with our equivalent word, which would be "precede."

That appears in the passage regarding the resurrection of believers at the Lord's second appearance:

>> 1Thess. 4:15-17 KJV
>> 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that
>> we which are alive and remain unto the coming
>> of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
>> 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
>> with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
>>and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
>> 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
>> with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
>> and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Here, one needs to mentally replace the word "prevent" (which I've underlined, and which to us now means something else) with our word "precede"; which restores the correct interpretation of verse 15, and brings the correct sense to the passage.

Just one word makes a difference!

(However, in the Old Testament Hebrew the word translated as "prevent" meant to us "anticipate" or "confront.")

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 3/02/2014 . Thanks aMorePerfectUnion.

[JoeProBono]

[ApplegateRanch]

Indeed! Just ask Elmer Fudd.

Lot of these stories over the last few years; is this push for bug eating part of Agenda 21?

[2ndDivisionVet]

[discostu]

I don’t really think people who eat all those expensive things give a damn what we eat. It’s not like we’re competing for those products. Meanwhile dingbats have been saying we’re going to be eating bugs any day now for decades, I remember a guy on Donahue back in the 70s talking the same crap. Of course if you eat Oscar Mayer bologna switching to bugs could be an upgrade.

[Texan5]

When I was about 8, my dad was in the Philippines with the military over Christmas.

Among the presents he sent to us on the ranch were boxes of bug candy-grasshoppers and ants covered with chocolate, caramel, etc. Being un-squeamish country kids my cousins, sibling and I sampled the stuff, while my mom and aunts laughed and waited for us to get sick-and were amazed when nothing happened-might have been because we very seldom ate sweets.

The chocolate covered ants were actually tasty, and sort of crunchy-but the grasshopper caramels were not as good...

[VR-21]

A friend and I who pretty much went through the same syllabus to become aircrewmen in the Navy, and having just completed SERE School were politely asked to leave the Enlisted Men’s Club at NAS Barbers Pt. because we got ‘overserved’ and started eating moths off the screen windows and giving ‘food shows.’ Yea, I was young once, and.....

[KosmicKitty]

The locked Renfield in an institution for eating bugs!

(Dracula reference)

[Slyfox]

Hey, do you know Charlie Robison?

[Texan5]

No, I don’t...

[Slyfox]

He is one of my favorite singers and he lives in your neck of the woods.

[Texan5]

Oh-okay-I’d heard the name, but didn’t know he lived around here. Kinky Freedman maintains an animal sanctuary not far away, too.