Biblical backing for animal rights issues

(Originally written May 9, 2006 in 3 Subject Book)

Animal Rights

Rights/Duties

Sentient  Rights

Genesis 1:26, 9:1-7 Divine image bearers exercising dominion

Genesis 2:16-17 - Pre-Fall diet, vegetarian??

Deuteronomy 12:15, 20 - Israelites may eat meat

Proverbs 12:10 - ethical treatment of animals

Mark 7:18-19: "Are you so dull? He asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn't go into their heart but their stomach, and then out their body" (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean).

Luke 12:24 - humans are more valuable in God's eyes than animals are

1 Timothy 4:1-5 - humans can eat animals

Isaiah 11:6 - the wolf, the lamb & the child

Sparse notes on an environmental seminar

(Originally Written May 1, 2006 in 3 Subject)

Stewardship Seminar

Dr. Spiegel - Philosophy department
Dr. Whipple - Biology department
Professor Reber - Earth & Science department

Professor Reber

In 1967, Lynn Townsend White blames the Christian ethics for the current environmental problems. The Christian ideal of nature being for man demands Christians to exploit the earth.

This work by White sparked the Christian Environmental Ethics movement.

In 2006, the pendulum has swung to where most environmentalists see the Christian stewardship concept as one of the strongest environmental ethics in play at the moment.

Background of Reber

-Rural, recycling, Mennonite concept of servitude