The Vegan Christian

That a Christian can be vegan has been written about on other sites. I didn't really think about it as a philosophy of life when I began eating an animal-free diet. But really the Bible says that carnivores will be herbivores when it all ends. And we were not carnivores until the Fall according to the Genesis account. So I just feel that I'm there a little ahead of time, maybe. I did notice that after I went completely vegan that I felt a lightness inside that seemed to have a spiritual source rather than a physical one. At the same time I am not questioning that God told people they could eat meat. But when Jesus speaks about divorce, He tells His listeners that they were given permission because they were hard hearted and that that wasn't God's ideal or command at all. It was a concession. I am also aware that Paul warns against anyone telling anyone they can't eat anything for salvation reasons. So I'm not preachy about this lifestyle. I only know that it is good for your health if you do it in a healthy way and that the way animals are treated in the food industry is very good moral justification for stepping outside the animal-based diet for conscience's sake.

Blogged

I wasn't intending to begin a blog. I went to a site in this blog that had a vegan recipe and I wanted to see others. It seemed that the only way to see more of the site was to have a blog myself. And then all the decisions that came with creating it almost paralyzed me. What was my signing name? What was the title? It all felt so significant, and I just wanted to see a few more vegan recipes.
So here I've been blogged, and although I'm uncertain what this blog will cover, I'm pretty sure it will contain some discussion of vegan cooking and also some discussion of things spiritual that I'm learning.
For example, what led me to this site was an entry on chocolate bread pudding. The writer had pictures and even told me where someone else had featured the recipe. I copied the recipes that I liked from both sites and then had to create this blog to see more. But what led me to look up bread pudding was that I had one in the oven I was trying from McDougall's recipe book and it was still bubbling after two hours in the oven. Was there an error in the recipe? Did I read it wrong? After double checking the book and then looking at other vegan bread pudding recipes on the Net, all seemed to be fine. But what I noticed was that all the puddings were in shallow pans. I had put mine in a round casserole that had it shaped deep and not wide. So the liquid took longer to bake down. Lesson learned.