Vegetarians

Paul Harvey, much beloved radio personality, once quipped, “Vegetarian is an old Indian word for ‘doesn’t hunt well.'” I like vegetables, but I am no vegetarian; I like meat – all kinds. I like beef, pork, chicken, fish, and squirrel. You didn’t expect the last one, did you? Did you forget that I grew up in rural Alabama? l’m convinced that there are many Bible vegetarians today. There is no meat in their diet because they don’t hunt well. They do not search or hunt through the Scriptures as they should. Jesus declared: “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39 KJ\/). Had the Pharisees truly searched, they would have known that Jesus was long awaited Messiah (John 7:52). In contrast to the Pharisees, the Bereans were great hunters. Of them, Luke records, “These were more…