I work for my mom in her salon, and she and most of her customers are fairly religious. So the subject of church comes up pretty often and theological discussions are pretty common as well. Today, Mom's friend was getting her nails done and talking about how man's diet was originally just vegetables until Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge. I can't help rolling my eyes at this every time I hear someone say it.
The other day, Mom and I were talking with another customer about stuff in the Bible that we had issues with. One of the things that Mom brought up was that if Adam and Eve were supposed to be the first two people on Earth, then when their sons got married, where did their wives come from? And where did the other tribes mentioned around the same time come from? I pointed out that the OT was really just a history of the Jews, and wasn't concerned with chronicling the origins of gentiles (it's the Christians that tried to take the Hebrew scriptures and make them apply to the entire world anyway).
So even if we assume that God created some physiological change in Adam and Eve after they "fell" and that was what caused the need for animal proteins in our diet... unless I'm overlooking something somewhere (it's been a while), the scripture doesn't even mention the dietary guidelines (if any) of our gentile ancestors. We may even assume that YHWH didn't have anything to do with their creation. So why is it that all humans share this same basic dietary need if it was all dependent on the fall of Adam and Eve, when clearly other human beings were already in existence elsewhere?
Seems pretty arrogant to me when people assume that the eating habits of animals all over the world were determined by two people who disobeyed an order from someone who hadn't taught them right from wrong in the first place. Human beings are simply not that important.
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