Jesus Vegans is now Wellspring Community

The short story is–my community blog is now http://www.wellspringcommunityblog.wordpress.com

Now for the longer story.

Jesus Vegans was going to be the name of the community I am starting. But I realized that in order to be more welcoming of people who are not Christians, I wanted to change the name.

I didn’t have the wherewithal to change the blog name, so even though I tried changing the name of the community to something less Christian, the link to the site was always going to be http://www.jesusvegansblog.wordpress.com

I decided to start another site, http://www.veganvisions.org

I realized that I did not want to limit my outreach to only vegans. There are a lot of wonderful people in the world who share so many of my values, and are not yet vegan. I do want to inspire such people to look into the community, and be supported in becoming vegan by living here. So therefore, once again, I changed the name.

I went back to my http://www.wellspringcommunityblog.wordpress.com. The history of how this blog got started–with my family being willing to be a community of sorts for about a year–is so inspiring to me.

So if you want to see what I am up to during the corona virus crises, check out http://www.wellspringcommunityblog.wordpress.com

You can learn lots about me in this blog as well.

Sending you love during these challenging times.

Why Jesus Was Most Likely A Vegan: Doesn't the Bible say he ate fish?

I would say that it is impossible to prove 100% that Jesus was a vegan. However, there is so much proof, just from the four gospels, that he was a vegan. And if you take the whole counsel of the Bible into consideration, the probability grows exponentially. I recommend that you read the book mentioned below if you want to be able to refute every argument people bring up about how the Bible does not support veganism.

According to Ryan Hicks, author of Why Every Christian Should Become A Vegan, Jesus did not eat fish in John 21:10.

“Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish (opsarion) which ye have now caught.”

Hicks explains, “It is very important to note that John uses a word that does not reference the actual animals we call “fish” when using the word “opsarion.” the etymology of this word is a little vague, but in my research of hundreds of Ancient Greek texts I found it used in a lot of ways including mainly referring to plant-life.”

I encourage you to look up this section in Ryan Hick’s book, found on page 146-148

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“…we see that Jesus Himself refers to the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand and the…four thousand and never mentions fish,” says Ryan Hicks in his book, Why Every Christian Should Be A Vegan.

When I looked into the Bible for verification, I was happy to see that this was so.

(Jesus said) When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? and they said, Seven. Mark 8:19-20

(Jesus said) Do ye not yet understand neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?  Matthew 16:9-10

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Did Jesus eat broiled fish for sure?

³⁶ While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

³⁷ They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. ³⁸ He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? ³⁹ Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

⁴⁰ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. ⁴¹ And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”⁴² They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³ and he took it and ate it in their presence.

Jesus shows that he is not a spirit and that he has a real body. Notice that the text does not say he ate the fish–but he took “it.” Is it possible that the “it” was the honeycomb?

Although vegans do not eat honey, I think we could give Jesus a break and say that he still was a vegan even though he may have eaten something that did exploit bees. Sometimes vegans make exceptions, correct? And we don’t know how the honeycomb was gotten. Maybe the bees miraculously decided to leave the honey–so Jesus could have it! We just don’t know. We can’t prove that he was exploiting the bees.

Thanks to Ryan Hicks, author of Why Every Christian Should Be A Vegan for inspiring me to look deeper into the scriptures and discover this.