How does GOD view hunting?

[NY Bowhunter]

Are we murderers or did heput wildlife on the Earth for us to harvest? I think I know the answer. I know what I've been taught anyway, but I'd like to hear your perspective on it.

[manuman]

It is obvious that we don't consider it 'murder' to harvest, kill, bag, or shoot an animal. The antis are doing a number on the general public when we have to go to great lengths to defens and define the hunt. I don't mind it though, and ahver encountered many people that don't see it as I do. The majority of people are neither hunters or antis, but, rather nonhunters, and 99% of the ones I talk to have no problem with responsible hunters that arwe in it for more than just the 'trophy' aspect. The first questuion I always get is, Are you going to eat the meat? The next question is concerning how I view the trophy aspect, and ,honestly, I am always wanting to take that big one, but the trophy aaspect takes a backseat to the joy of the hunt itself. I also think, and some may consider this a stretch, but, I think there is some symbolism in the allowance of hunting. The death of the animal to provide sustenance, and the skins as covering are the same themes we find in the sacrificial system of the OT.I truly believe that there is a parallel to the sacrificial system, and to the hunt. When an animal is killed to provide for us , as not only instructed, but encouraged in the Scriptures, see Genesis' account of Nimrod, the first hunter, I think that the sacrifice is still an integral part of an animals death. At least for me, when I kill an animal, it takes on this connotation, and I take it serious.I also believe that the thrill of the hunt is God given as well. He has instilled into some of us, the desire to seek game and it only makes sense that we enjoy the pursuit and its challenge.So, to answer the question, I believe that it is God 's idea by design to hunt. On the one hand, it reflects and is a reminder of the fact that death is necesarry to sustain life, just as Christ's death , as the sacrificial Lamb brings life through His death. Secondly, it is given from Him to not only to pursue game, but to enjoy the pursuit--to some of us, and not to all. That is why some like to hunt and others don't. We need to respect those that don't, because they don't have this instilled to them, and they , in turn need to respect that we do. I think tha twe do a disservice to the game and to hunting when it loses this significance and is reduced to beiing all about the size of the rack.

[Chuck7]

Good to see ya here NY Hunter .Here are a few verses for ya that are on top of my head.
Proverbs 12:27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.



Genesis25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison

Gen.1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

[m.t.hands]

hey ole buddy good to see you here, i think we all know how God feels about hunting and taking animals for the usefullness of life, this is why i only kill what i'll consume, other than coyotes, they are really rough on our goats and calfs[:@], i dont know how he feels about goof though[:-], j/k hope all is going well for you, your game bag and livewells full, and you have a good day on the course or the field, BTW that was a beautiful bow kill you had

[mr-pirk]

N.Y. Bowhunter, God told the Israelites that deer and gazelles were to be eaten. They were/are wild animals, so I have to assume God endorsed hunting.

M.T. Hands...you sure that yote soup might not be okay?[8D]

Thanks
Mr-Pirk

[Rebel Hog]

Deut.14: 3-6

[3] Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
[4] These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
[5] The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
[6] And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

[Chuck7]

Great verses Reb.
I'lltry to remember those. I know from studying the Weight Watcher's list that Venison is on the very top of the list as most healthy. More lean than most fish. Tasty too.
C7

[Alex The Hawk]

The Law Of Moses does provide remedies to the hunter, he must wash before entering the village including cloth and shoes. essau was a hunter amd so was Jacob.

The first taxidermist was God, he took skins of animals and tanned them and made clothes for the first 2 people after they had sinned.

the Antis don't know what they are talking about, in 1990 I argued this point at the Florida Game and Fish commission befor etheir panel of experts and against this woman that represented anti-hunters.

she left in a stage of shock when I made her confess that animals, according to her had more value than human babies as she was also a pro-abortion advocate.

the commission and the governor that was present really looked down on her and she was never allowed to return to speak on behalf of the antis. LOL

[manuman]

That's always my first question to a radical anti--if they say they are in favor of abortion, then they have nothing to say to me.

[DaveH]

Like Alex already said, it was God who killed the first animals to clothe Adam and Eve. It was also God who commanded the sacrifices of animals to Him and saw this as honorable. He honored Abel's gift of animal sacrifices far about Cain's plant gift. He gave us all hooved animals for food originally and eventually included ALL animals in the list of foods to be eaten. I doubt that He would have done any of these things if it were not the right thing to do.