The Bible doesn forbid eating meat, so why not?
We do not question the fact that God has allowed man to eat meat. However, the first 1600+ years of human history prior to the flood, there is no indication that man ate meat or cooked his food – with no recorded instance of sickness. We observe that God told man in Genesis 1:29 the ideal way to nourish his body: basically raw foods. This is the original diet for mankind. After this point, indeed there are many passages of scripture that refer to eating meat or consuming animal products. We simply teach that, since God’s ORIGINAL diet did not include meat, this is not the IDEAL way to nourish the body. There is no spiritual significance to eating meat or abstaining from eating meat (or any other food), only physical consequences.
