Excuses People Use to Try to Justify Killing and Eating Animals

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Excuses People Use to Try to Justify Killing and Eating Animals
By Derek - 6 Mar 2010

Hello,
 
I read your comment on how God doesn't support animal cruelty...but if the Flood occurred, then God killed untold millions of animals in one of the worst ways possible: drowning to death. The animals had done nothing wrong, and God was not angry with them, but he drowned them anyway. He was angry at humans, so if he's all-powerful then he could have easily just caused all humans to drop dead without destroying so much innocent life. But he didn't do that.
 
Doesn't that make God at the very least entirely indifferent to animal suffering? I do understand that sovereignty would mean he can do whatever he wants to anything he creates...but that's beside the point. From the biblical evidence itself, though, isn't it pretty clear that God abuses animals?
 
Thanks,
 
Derek