📜 Compassion and Creation References in Scripture and Christian Tradition - c.1400 -2024 ✨🌱🍇🍞
Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) 1828 – 1910 CE The First Step (1892): “As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” Biblical Sources Writer / Source Approx. Date Key Idea or Quotation Moses / Hebrew Scriptures c. 1400–1200 BCE Genesis 1 : 29-30 – Humans and animals are nourished by plants; no killing in Eden. Prophet Hosea c. 750 BCE Hosea 2 : 18 – God makes a covenant “with the beasts of the field.” Prophet Isaiah c. 700 BCE Isaiah 11 : 6-9; 65 : 25 – Peaceful kingdom: “They shall not hurt or destroy.” Jesus of Nazareth c. 4 BCE – 30 CE Matthew 9 : 13; 12 : 7 – “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” Mercy valued over bloodshed. Paul the Apostle c. 5 – 67 CE Romans 8 : 19-22; 14 : 20-21 – Creation longs for liberation; do nothing that makes another stumble. (Bouth vegan's and the sacrificed animal) Early Christian Writers Writer Dates Work / Quotation Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Cle...