在西方,大部分基督徒现在并不信奉素食主义。基督徒该不该素食,如今仍是一个很有争议的话题。但有一个事实是:星期五是耶稣遇难的日子,信奉基督教的人,每逢此日斋戒一天,不食肉。还有基督徒认为《圣经》中的很多句子表达了神对肉食的鄙弃,比如:
创世记1:29
神说,看哪,我将遍地上一切结种子的菜蔬和一切树上所结有核的果子,全赐给你们作食物。
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.
创世记9:4
惟独肉带着血,那就是它的生命,你们不可吃。
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. |