"And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that
creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." Gen. l: 30.

  In other words, the scriptures make it absolutely clear that all creatures have the free
will to choose to be vegetarian, to be compassionate towards other beings, or to deviate
from the commandment and to kill animals and eat them. God destroyed the world
because all flesh, humans as well as other creatures, committed acts of violence towards
other beings. We shall see that this command in Genesis is directly in line with the teachings of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, which was alluded to in both the times of the Torah and the New Testament.

    This is made abundantly clear in the Old Testament itself. Before the deluge, Deity
says that all creatures, and not just flesh and blood creatures, but the insects as well, the
"creeping things," shall be blotted out.

"So the Lord said, 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground,
man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made
them.'"  Genesis 6: 5-7

"Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.  And
God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon
the earth.  And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the
earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
Genesis 6: 11-13.

 These Scriptures are in Harmony with the Hindu's Institutes of Vishnu, the Laws of Manu
    and the Teachings of the Jains, but not with the teachings of Most of the Torah.

   Now these scriptures are not at all in alignment with most of the scriptures in the
Torah, which do not treat animals as sentient beings having free will, but as creatures to
be used by humans without concern for the welfare of the creatures.  Quite obviously
these scriptures are a remnant of the original vegetarian Jewish scriptures.  We have
seen in other pages how Jews named their Sabbath and a number of their holidays after
Shiva and Kana (Krishna), and how they named themselves as a people, as in Kal Israel,
after Kali, and after Uma, who are the mates of Shiva. So too, the attitude

             These Scriptures are Ignored by the Above Orthodoxies,
       Because they Convincingly Demonstrate that the Old and New Testament
                    and the Koran are Revised Documents,
          And Certainly Not Totally Inspired by an All compassionate God.
         Once Again, the Hindu Origins of Judaism are Clearly Demonstrated.

       Orthodox Jewish Rabbis as well as orthodox Christian and orthodox Muslim
teachers ignore these passages, because, like so many other parts of the Old Testament
which testify to the Hindu origins of Judaism, these passages show that the Old
Testament is indeed a revised document.  It was revised, quite obviously, by the
cattleman cult overthrowing the original vegetarian Jews worshipping Asherah, or
Asura, which was originally simply the name of God to the Hindus.

        Parallel Cases of Suppressing the Truth Among Christians and Muslims

    Generally speaking the orthodoxies of these faiths simply gloss over these scriptures
and ignore them, just as orthodox Christians choose to ignore the scriptures in "Epistle to
the Hebrews" that rather bluntly state that it was Jesus' mission to abolish the animal
sacrifices, and just as Muslims ignore the fact that the Koran praises the Sabeans, who
are worshippers of Saba, or Shiva, lord of creatures and protector of cattle. Moreover, it is Muhammad himself, the instrument of Allah, who gives us one of the most profound
affirmations of the alliance between other creatures and humans. In fact, Surah VI, Cattle states unequivocally that

 "There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you.  We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered.
Quran, Surah VI: 38

              The Reviser of the Original Vegetarian Old Testament
         Attempted to Numb Humanity's Sensitivity Towards Other Creatures.

 "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth.  The fear of you and the dread of your shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and
all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.  Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything."
Genesis 9: 1-3

1. Would a perfect Deity change its perfect mind?

2.  Would an All Compassionate Deity, who by definition loves all creatures infinitely,
    desire that these creatures live in fear and dread?

3. Would an omniscient Deity command that humans eat flesh even though it
    degenerates the body, and contributes to numerous forms of disease and an early
    death?

4. Isn't it more logical to understand that these scriptures were inserted by the revisers
   of the Bible in order to sanction the brutality of the meat and animal foods industries,
   and the exploitive practices of industry in general?

   And in the history of the Roman Catholic Church we have representatives of the
Church attempting to continue to numb humanity's consciousness that other creatures are sensitive feeling beings, such as Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century stating that animals have no souls, and Rene Descartes in the 17th century stating that animals are like clocks, simply mechanical beings without spirit.

   If one reads the Summa Theologica of Aquinas, however, one discovers that Aquinas
asserts that consciousness (or sentience), and free will are qualities of the immortal soul,
which, Aquinas says, is only possessed by humanity. Yet sentience and freedom are
clearly ascribed to other creatures in the scriptures of the quoted above.

   We see clear examples of the attempt to numb our sensitivity towards the sacredness of all life in several places in the New Testament. In in 2 Peter 2: 12, scriptures attributed to Peter, cruelty toward animals is blatantly affirmed as part of orthodox Christian belief: other creatures are described as  "irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed." And in "Acts of the Apostles" the absurd scriptures "Rise and kill and eat" in "Acts" should be a clear indication to the objective reader whose brain is unclouded by an addiction to animal flesh, that these scriptures were obviously not inspired by a Deity of infinite love, but were inserted to sanction the profits derived from the slaughterhouses. "Rise and kill and eat" is seen three times in "Acts," demonstrating that the rewriters of the original teachings of Jesus were trying, by repetition, and by the sheer quantity of the writings, to overpower the vegetarianism of Jesus and his earliest
followers.

   Even scholars defending the animal rights movement and defending Hinduism and
Buddhism often ignore the consciousness and free will of other creatures.  One strongly
suspects that the Hindus and Buddhists are simply being as diplomatic as possible in
attempting to get along with carnivorous sects.  But many people of these faiths believe,
and some of their scriptures teach, that humans can be reborn as other creatures.  For
example, those who for example eat beef will be reborn as cows in order to suffer the
very pain that they cause cows to suffer in this lifetime by eating the flesh of cows.
 

   Too many animal rights advocates and even some Hindus and Buddhists are still
overly human-centered rather than creation-centered, asserting that other creatures are lower forms of consciousness than humans.  The fact is that most humans are simply unaware of the drama of consciousness and free will that exists in other creatures. Most of the teachings of the Jains, Hindus and Buddhists, however,  have such an understanding of the capabilities and sacredness of other creatures.  And the Jains, or Ganas, as we shall see in the section on Gan Eden, were an integral part of the religious culture of India and therefore also were an integral part of the origins of Judaism.  Indigenous cultures retaining their ancient beliefs, such as some of the Hopi, the Maya, and the Polynesians and Hawaiians, however, were quite cognizant of the sentience and free will of other creatures. The Hopis say that in the beginning all animals lived harmoniously together and communicated with each other, and that it was after the fall from grace that such harmony and communication ceased.

   I will not dwell long on the fact that it is not difficult to raise dogs on strictly vegetarian
or vegan food, or that, though more rarely than canines, even some felines have become vegetarian as well. Nonetheless these are documented occurrences. I myself refuse to be involved with pets because of the fact that human domination seems always to be part of the relationship.  I do not deny, however, the karmic bonds uniting animals and their companions.

   Some humans are adamant that other creatures have no intelligence and rather
ignorantly support their arguments by pointing to cities, TVs and rocket ships, as if all
these were not dependent on the massive exploitation and slaughter of other creatures.
The pollution of the earth, air and water of earth are the indisputable corollaries of
industrial sects defending their exploitation of creation. Whereas seventy-five years ago
the waters of nature outside of industrial centers were drinkable, today they are not.
Those who call the trinkets of industry examples of progress delude themselves.
 

   Psalm 90, verse 10, written by Moses, states that "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away."  Since Moses' time we have had the industrial revolution and supposedly an age of science. Nonetheless, all the inventiveness of the geniuses of industry, science, and medicine have not added five quality years to the life span of 70 to 80 years.  And Moses, moreover, lived to be 120, and wrote scathingly of the Israelites craving to eat flesh. In addition, Moses wore the Hindu bindi on his forehead, and the the word Exodus, Ex-Odus, means the leaving of the Hindustan people.

   While I at this time feel the correctness of my using industrial products such as a
computer in order to point out the evils of industrial cultures that subdue the earth and
have dominion over other creatures, my ideal is to live harmoniously with creation as it
is, as is taught in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, and by the Jains.
 

      The Necessity to Become Creation-Centered Rather than Human-Centered.

   Admittedly when virtually all of our educational institutions our religions and
governments state that animals are here for humans to use, or that we shouldn't be
concerned with them, one can understand how humans are conditioned to ignore
the sacredness of other creatures.  We need to focus more on being creation-centered
rather than being human-centered, as Sirach and Esdras indicated.  If we substitute
Deity for He in Sirach's scripture above, thereby eliminating the male chauvinistic notion of deity being a male, then Sirach's quote rather perfectly describes the creation-centered rather than the human-centered attitude. Other pages of this web site demonstrate that the earliest Jews were matriarchal as well as patriarchal and venerated Goddesses such as Kali, Uma and Bala.

  Those who tell you that God changed his mind from commanding vegetarianism to commanding carnivorism are telling you lies and supporting a rich establishment making profits through brutally slaughtering animals and selling their poisonous cholesterol-laden corpses to eat. A perfect would not, by definition, change its perfect mind. An all loving Deity would not, by definition, desire the brutality involved in the exploitation and slaughter of creatures. An omniscient Deity would not, by definition, command humans to eat the unhealthy and degenerating diet of animal flesh.