Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth - everything that has the breath of life in it - I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. (Genesis 1:29-30 BSB)
In the beginning, men and animals eat plant for food. All are vegetarian.
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things. But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. (Genesis 9:3-4 BSB)
After the flood, God told Noah that men are allowed to eat meat (Genesis 9).
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you. (Leviticus 20:25 BSB)
You must not eat any detestable thing. (Deuteronomy 14:3 BSB)
God instituted the kosher diet for Israel (Leviticus 11).
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality." (Acts 21:25 BSB)
Since kosher diet is only for the Israelites, Christians continue with the post-flood diet given to Noah by God.
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. (Isaiah 11:7 BSB)
During the reign of Christ in the Millennium, carnivores will become herbivores. But will men become vegetarian again? It was not mentioned.
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