What's eating you?
I was recently asked about "eating people"...where in the Bible does it say that it is a sin? As I began to think about it I have only come up with a few shallow arguments. In Numbers the two women agreed to cook and eat their sons so as not to starve but after the first cooked hers the second refused and the king was mortified when he found out what happened. Obviously it was not considered to be a viable option to them however the Scripture did not say it was wrong. In Deuteronomy God says that because of their disobedience the people would be forced to eat their children to survive, so again it is associated with sin though it is not specifically stated to be sin. Another observation is that it is always associated with killing and the question I was asked was that if the person was killed in an accident would it be wrong to eat them. Now I must say that this person was not thinking of doing this only proposing a hypothetical question that the Bible does not seem to address directly. What are your thoughts? e-mail me at Revthomsmith@aol.com.