WWJD, If You Were a Lamb?

1/2026 by April Joines

By April T Joines 🌸 1/21/2026

Sacrifice….I don’t think that people are entirely evil who eat meat, but I think that people who don’t care about the animal being murdered are evil. I don’t think that people that have no compassion for animals are going to manage to create much good in the world at least not in the lives of the animals that they are murdering. I was trying to think about how when I was growing up. I wanted to be a vegetarian, but I had to wait until I was 14 years old because my mom told me that my dad would not allow me to be a vegetarian. all I know is that Jesus used to like lands and the first time I ever saw a bunch of them in a field on my way to school looking at the school bus window. I had no idea that we had them in our local area so I got really happy. I’ve never really actually in my whole life. I’ve never eaten a lamb. I used to have a lamb chop shirt and I didn’t like how the lady called herself lamb chop and she was supposed to be like best friends with a lamb. What are you gonna do chop it head off later and eat its butt for breakfast, or for brunch? And how about this false eyelashes oh my gosh can you say like make up overload?? when we were kids in our church play at our Baptist Church. We used to always have a nativity scene. My favorite part about it was Jesus of course, but the animals like we had a camel a cow, a sheep, a goat, traditional farm animals, but never once that I think about chopping their head off and eating them I think when Jesus was a young man, he ate lentils, figs, bread, cheese, milk, honey, olives, dates, dip, palms, and then travel to distant lands, but he told Peter when they went fishing to feed the lambs feed my sheep and feed my lambs, so it’s important to have the right intention when you were having a burnt animal sacrifice like just like if you’re going hunting, you shouldn’t just try to kill every animal in sight just because you have a gun or a cross go. Especially when there’s a whole entire grocery store full of dead animals that no one has eaten yet and you can’t justify you’re wrong action by shooting an animal because of your intention being good when honestly what good comes from putting a bullet through an innocent animal.? to an extent I agree with Seph that it’s better to have you know a prayer before you have your meal and just give thanks for the food if you don’t have any, but when you go to the grocery store, there’s a whole meat section that has hundreds of animals that haven’t been bought yet so hunters to go around saying oh I’m just teaching myself how to be prepared for if we go off the grid and don’t have animals in the grocery store for food anymore but then the problem is they’re still dead animals in the grocery store and there’s no need to kill an innocent deer. So people their intentions aren’t really all that good. They don’t have good intentions for the animals. What about the Bible verse that said do not eat the flu or the blood of any living thing so if you kill an animal and you eat its flesh, doesn’t the scripture contradict itself?

I tried to understand that in 4300 BC during the age of Taurus when the bull is being sacrificed as the first burned offering after Abraham and the Lord had burned an animal ram offering instead of Isaac the son of Abraham being sacrificed, they took a ram which is really no longer necessary today. We have plant-based food so being a vegetarian is an option for anyone God is not going to love you less or tell you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven if you don’t eat lambs, sheep, goats, or cattle or cows and if you try to exert Dominion over them and then think that you have the right to murder them just because God says that we can use animals for an nourishment doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the right course of action.. It’s more civilized to grow sweet potatoes and yams and corn and the land of milk and honey. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the land of animals that have been slaughtered. of all of the offerings the most sacred to God it was said where the 12 loaves of bread representing the 12 tribes of Israel, burning an animal sacrifice with something done with great reverence and right intention to try to get the children of Israel, not to worship a bull really it was the main intention when Moses was being given the 10 Commandments and the Israelite started having a wild party down in the valley, melting their silver and gold jewelry to make a bull statue that they were worshiping that really made God angry. He didn’t want people to have false titles. He didn’t want people were tipping a bull statue.Molech, the bull God …Pagan that people were worshiping God, had to punish the children of Israel and he became fierce and so he ripped apart the animal and he poured his blood on an monitor and then he consumed the flesh of it called it a sin/atonement/burnt offering or a peace offering eventually God wanted there to be peace, but he had to have a wrathful kind of fierce quality about not accepting them worshiping a bull after they left Egypt they were given MANNAH a kind of bread while Moses was on the top of the Mount Sinai writing down the 10 Commandments the children in the valley started going bonkers and made a bowl to worship that was not good and so I think that was the intention of God to rebuke them and that is why later in the scripture it says do not eat the flesh or blood of any living thing and there’s a list of animals specifically not to be eaten pigs and animals that have talons that includes turkeys, eagles, and chickens. if people feel so desperate for food and cannot be happy with plant based options or fake meat or protein you can get 19 g of an impossible burger at Burger King instead of the dead cow and keep getting mad cow disease… who can think clearly when they have heart disease atherosclerosis and colon cancer from eating poisonous meat? at this point in the game, it is optional more people are becoming vegetarians. You can be a Christian and also be a compassionate vegetarian. It’s not some kind of a rule book that you have to be an Old Testament bigot and you have to have an alter at your house and sacrifice cows and lands to be considered a true Christian. It doesn’t work that way your heart is what is the meaning what is pure and that was what I think this young man was trying to say was it’s your intention that that is true you should have an intention to feed your family, but you should also be thankful for what you were given. If God gave us animals do you think he would approve of us killing them in front of him if we didn’t need to it can be a bloody mess to slaughter an animal do you know how much blood comes from it? It’s disgusting disgusting and about children. They don’t need to see that horrific event happening and if you have to consider calling yourself a Christian or if being a Christian is contingent upon whether or not you sacrifice animals that is not the way to heaven, so there are millions of vegetarians in the world and there’s no rule that says that they can’t enter into the kingdom of heaven, but God did say you can’t enter the kingdom of heaven, unless you were like little children, children, and so you should be as innocent as a lamb, but Jesus loved lambs and he made bread for people after they went fishing, probably because he didn’t want his friends in the boat, eating the slimy guts of fish because there was something in the Bible and the Old Testament, where Moses said, do not eat the flesh or the blood of any living thing so at some point, God contradicted himself and seems like a hypocrite. I’m sure that he would approve of me being a vegetarian and still allow me to go to heaven in my family if we never sacrificed any animals or eat meat according to my studies anymore, vegetarians live longer have less heart disease and are better athletes in some cases… will you be the judge decide for yourself what you feel is right for your dietary needs, but I wouldn’t want to be a lamb or a sheep or a goat or a deer in your backyard. Have a blessed day, everyone.