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Good News for All Creation: Vegetarianism as Christian Stewardship

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I would absolutely recommend this book. It is a beautifully crafted, well-versed book that reads like a novel, but is full of information and facts to fuel your soul's mission on earth. The author combines the words of Christ, as written in the Bible, with facts and figures to communicate a strong message- do as Jesus did, and love thy neighbor- animals included!

This book is an excellent introduction to faith-based vegetarianism. "The Bible is God's handbook for our lives," the authors claim, making it ideal for Bible-oriented Christians. They also give good advice for how to promote Christian vegetarianism. A useful and well-written book.

Despite the often poor theology in this book, I was devouring it ravenously and planning to recommend it highly, especially to the many meat eaters I know. I had let go the statistic regarding animal extinction "before humans existed", although I did not understand how the authors could reference Creation and Eden and then speak as an evolutionist would.

The part that made me close the book and put it down for good, however, was the suggestion that when it was "not good for the man to be alone", the animals were the helper God provided for Adam. This helper is clearly woman. Adam had already surveyed God's animal creation and not found one like himself. This misinterpretation was too blatant to be overlooked.

Although a vegetarian diet ranks highly on my list of appropriate Christian behavior, belief in the Creation (which includes a mere few days before humans existed and NO extinction), and Christian marriage (which was instituted when God created Eve as a helper for Adam) ranks much more highly.

If the authors cannot be trusted to correctly interpret exceedingly clear and widely understood Scripture passages, their interpretation of much cloudier statistics certainly must be drawn into question.