What did the carnivores/predators eat on the Ark?
score:15
Genesis 6:21 has your answer
You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
Upvote:3
When we read in Genesis Ch.7 that Noah was to take with him seven of all clean animals, of course taking both male and female/ and two of all unclean animals, also male and female.
Scripture then continues in verse 3 saying
also seven each of birds of the air, both male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth. (NKJV)
As we know, birds lay eggs that can either be eaten as such or hatched for a supply of poultry. Also, nobody is taking into account the fish that would be available. The bible clearly states later in verses 17-24 that he destroyed all living thing that breathes air and lives on dry land, never speaking of things that swim in the waters below.
The simple answer may be that the carnivores ate fish
When I think even deeper into the situation, animals such as small rodents would procreate rapidly and maybe were also used as a protein source for the animals. Bugs may have been another source of protein for some.
Upvote:6
In addition to Affable's answer, there is also Genesis 9:3 which indicates that at least mankind did not eat meat before the flood:
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
It is arguable that animals did not prior to the release from the Ark, as well - they also were not afraid of men until after (the previous verse):
The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.
However, regardless of whether animals were carnivorous prior to the flood or not, we know that God provided for them via Noah's efforts to lay-up stores in the 100 years before the flood.
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
More post
- 📝 Will we still feel affection towards others when we are in heaven?
- 📝 If Christ has all power to perform miracles, how is that that "he could there do no mighty work" save that He healed a few?
- 📝 What reasons do Christians have to believe there is one God?
- 📝 Is Judas Iscariot ever depicted in religious art with one of those silver or gold coloured Halos?
- 📝 How do the Catholic and LDS views of what a prophet is differ?
- 📝 What happens to retired Popes like Pope Benedict?
- 📝 What does the Bible say Christians should or should not do on the Sabbath?
- 📝 What is the difference between obeisance and worship?
- 📝 What is a brief history on the idea that the Pope is the Antichrist?
- 📝 What does "see" in "the Holy See" mean?
- 📝 Unique Catholic Blessings of local Churches?
- 📝 Who are the people depicted in Dionisius' famous icon of Christ's descent into hell?
- 📝 How does the Mormon Church reconcile the following claim with the Bible? "The Church of Jesus Christ was well established in the time of Adam."
- 📝 According to Catholicism, why are some demons more difficult to cast out than others?
- 📝 From a Lutheran perspective, how can we attain unity of mind while disagreeing with our brothers and sisters?
- 📝 How do Protestants understand the "unforgivable" sin?
- 📝 Has it always been difficult for churches to reach the next generation?
- 📝 According to Catholicism and Revelation are we going to be able to eat meat in Heaven or the Garden of Eden?
- 📝 According to the RCC is it allowed to have more then one wife?
- 📝 What is the basis for not believing sola scriptura?
- 📝 The unicorn as a Christological figure
- 📝 What does Matthew mean by "if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out", etc.?
- 📝 Why did they have such a good memory?
- 📝 When was the number of the beast, 666, first identified as referring to Emperor Nero?
- 📝 Where did the idiom "asking Jesus into your heart" come from?
- 📝 A curse be unto you
- 📝 Is this melody part of the French church mass?
- 📝 How can Luke 9:49–50 be reconciled with the idea that Christ is the only way?
- 📝 Mormons believe in more than one god so how do they reconcile this belief with 1 Timothy 1:17?
- 📝 How does uniting to Christ's suffering work?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What evidence is there from scripture for why Daniel did not eat the King's food?
- 📝 What defined a "clean" animal prior to the flood when mankind did not eat meat?
- 📝 What did the carnivores/predators eat on the Ark?
- 📝 What does it mean that Jesus fulfilled the law but did not abolish it?
- 📝 What were the Nephilim, and what role did they play in the Bible beyond just being mentioned?
- 📝 What effect did the Reformation have inside the Catholic Church?
- 📝 What effect did the 1897 decree regarding the Johannine Comma have on Catholic scholarship?
- 📝 What did Jonathan Edwards have to say about the fact that he owned slaves?
- 📝 What doctrinal changes did the Westminster Confession bring to the Church of Scotland?
- 📝 According to the LDS faith, did Noah build the Ark in America?
- 📝 What was inside the Ark of the Covenant?
- 📝 What is the basis for the belief that the wise men did not arrive in Bethlehem until several months after the birth of Jesus?
- 📝 A problem with Purgatory: How could Jesus say what he did to the repentant criminal on a cross next to him if Purgatory existed?
- 📝 Why did this Early Version of the Watchtower Magazine include Crosses, and what do these other Symbols on the Magazine Represent?
- 📝 What is the basis for King Melchizedek actually being Jesus? Where did this idea come from?
- 📝 At what point did the Roman See start self-identifying as the Catholic Church?
- 📝 How could the Egyptian magicians do what God did through Moses?
- 📝 What did Paul mean when he called Jesus the "firstborn from the dead"?
- 📝 Which year did Jesus die? What is the most commonly held view
- 📝 According to Protestants following the Reformation, what did Jesus mean when he said "do this and you will live"?
- 📝 What is the Catholic Church's historical position on capital punishment: how did we get here?
- 📝 What did "one baptism" in the Nicene Creed mean back then?
- 📝 What did Jesus write on the ground?
- 📝 What role did the Donation of Constantine have on the development of the doctrine of Papal supremacy?
- 📝 What did the Early Church Fathers think about pets (animals) going to Heaven upon death?
- 📝 What did the early church fathers (pre-5th c.) teach with regards to the doctrine of baptism as a necessity for salvation?
- 📝 What did the fathers of the early church think of Tertullian?
- 📝 Since when did the Catholic church accept Protestant baptism, and what was the original rationale for accepting?
- 📝 What did the Dominicans have against the immaculate conception?
- 📝 How long, and in what cases did Catholics participate in the Black Fast?