God accepts animal cruelty?

The problem is that what constitutes "cruelty" to one person or culture, may not to another, therefore who is right. I'd say the rule of thumb is if you are killing, maiming, or causing pain (emotional or physical) to an animal for no reason but your amusement... that would definitely be sinful in God's eyes. The rest would have to be case by case? Animal testing? Not sure, some animal testing has led to great advancement in medicine. Consumption? In most cases, but clearly we are a country that over eats if anything, so is it completely necessary?

Cruelty to Animals is an invention of Man... !! If He addressed every Sin that could be committed in Our Bibles? We wouldn't be able to lift the Pages let alone climb the latter to get to them... !!

Uhm the bible also doesnt clearly state not to poke your own eyes out or chop off your own limbs I cant imagine god anticipated us being so stupid as to farm large numbers of animals to the point that we poison our own water supply with pig and chicken feces so that we can eat dead animal meat that is not even a part of our natural diet....i think God thought this was a convo he would never have to have because he didnt expect us to sabotage our own health to this extent I seriously dont think god saw us testing mascara on bunnies thousands of years ago humans do a lot of counterproductive dumb ****

No he does not. Animal abuse is a sin.

Proverbs 12:10 "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."

Psalm 145:9 "The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made."

Numbers 22 "Balaam's Donkey and the Angel" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbe...

James 4:17 "So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."

the Abrahamic faiths give men dominion over all animals and women

both are property

theres a fun passage in Leviticus about liability in the event an oxen is injured .. or is it killed .. anyway .. by one man having dug a hole that the oxen falls into

in fact I think there may be several scenarios contemplated

classic early tort law

You're asking if Mr. Sacrifice-an-animal-to-prove-you-love-me cares about animals, sure. The only way god can eat meat is if his peons sacrifice the animal for him, that way he gets to hold up his hands and say "I didn't kill Cecil the Lion."

God orders animal sacrifices in the OT.

Not at all...

"The righteous one is caring for the soul of his domestic animal, but the mercies of the wicked ones are cruel" (Proverbs 12:10. Bible).

The Bible addresses 'dignity' not 'cruelty.' That is because the term 'cruelty' is subjective nonsense based on nothing.

If I take a snap shot of someone with a hunting rifle in a helicopter killing timber wolves from above, you could call that 'cruel.' If I show you the snap shots of those same timber wolves several hours earlier trapping a baby elk, separating it from its parents just far enough away so that they can hear its impassioned cries for help, then torturing it for hours with bites and scratches while it screams in abject fear, finally devouring its viscera while it is still alive until it draws the parents out instinctively to come to its defense, then trapping and killing the parents in the same manner----would you be as offended by the person with the sniper rifle in the helicopter?

We can define 'cruel' as any act of nature against any other act of nature. We could just as easily call it 'justice' once we learn that modern elk instinctively spread diseases to other animals just like themselves and wiped them out so that they could take their territories, just like the red squirrel was wiped out by the grey squirrel because grey squirrels instinctively bite them and transmit a virus to which the red squirrel has no immunity. Was that 'cruel?' That is not even the final story or perspective, just another snap shot. There is no fluffy bunny scenario in nature, only cold blooded heartless killers from micro level to mezzo level to macro level each of whom use chemical and biological warfare to wipe out their competitors.

That is why scripture tells us in so uncertain terms NOT to emulate nature, but to guide it. When we emulate nature under the foolish presumption that any of these snapshots or combinations of them contain some mysterious occult knowledge to teach us, we end up masking the same type of absurd warfare behind terms like 'animal cruelty,' while we pursue 'justice' by sending yet any 'human offender' to live in a cage and be deviantly raped and tortured or be recruited into criminal gangs to come out and return the favor to us later. Instead, the Bible describes something called 'dignity.' This is also called 'honor' (Greek: 'time' pronounced 'tee-may'). Every animal has its own threshold of honor, including the human, who is actually not one animal but many life forms operating in a perfect balance. Our 'gut flora' and 'blood microbes' alone contain uncountable numbers of animals, without which we would not be alive, for example. We also have direct inextricable connections with other larger animals known by the Hebrew phrase 'neshamah chay' translated 'breath of life.' This makes us incomprehensible beings made in the image of an incomprehensible Creator, since God is not any one particular life form either but is revealed through the perfect balance of many highly advanced life forms known as His 'elohim,' which together embody all of His Names, (attributes, qualities and wisdom). We strongly resemble this construct, unless we decide to 'pretend' that we are simple and isolated simian creatures and concoct absurd narratives about the origins of those fictitiously isolated creatures. This is actually an example of an act of 'indignity,' since it mocks what we actually are by attempting to reduce us to defamatory narratives representing only pallid shadows of our true state, from the perspective of nature and God.

Similarly, we are able to offend the honor of any creature by reducing them to functionaries inside of equally obtuse and simplistic narratives. This invites reinforcing behaviors, like the ones you find so offensive. If I recognized the specific connection that any particular animal actually has to myself and saw their treatment as my own treatment, I would be loath to mock them or encourage a mentality that diminishes their value in any way. If I recognize that their life blood is my own dignity, I would make certain not to invite any mentality that offends 'us.' It is greatly offensive to punish a human for 'animal cruelty' only to have them raped and tortured, then have this great offense return as hate for all creatures--including a special hate for the same creature for whose mistreatment they are being punished. All of this is pure evil spreading more evil.

Instead, God addresses mentalities, not physical treatment, since the good mentalities lead to dignity, even when they appear to be violent. This form of violence is dignified and preserves honor. If animals were immortal, we could all embrace their gentle treatment as a universal good. In reality, the issue is about HOW they die and WHY, not IF they die. Those who refuse to manage them intelligently, simply let them grow to old age, allowing 'nature' to kill them, wasting most of what they are when viewed as an important element of a larger system. This might seem kinder until we return to examining what this actually does to their dignity. To be eaten alive by microbes that typically only feed on carcasses and corpses is an almost unimaginable indignity, but this is what you are doing to most 'domesticated' animals when you let 'nature' slowly wear down their immune system until it can no longer maintain itself. Yes, we can use drugs to kill them quickly after we realize they are in pain, which is actually the modern definition of 'animal kindness' since the social groups tasked with ending 'animal cruelty' actually kill more individual animals than the meat industry. Even they recognize God's wisdom in ending animal life. However, they do it foolishly and wastefully, extracting and producing expensive medicines from nature that are not available to most animals anyway, and these essentially suffocate them on a cellular level. The fact that this is done 'quickly' gives the appearance that it is dignified, when it is exactly the opposite. God forbids suffocation of animals because of the mentalities involved. These mentalities give the false impression of dominance as the 'inferior' dying animal is made to feel powerless. By bloodletting instead, the animal is killed at the height of their strength and is able to outlet their fear and struggle with honor and dignity until they submit. There is no shame in this death, nor any residual impression of inferiority, only the recognition of the power and honor of the strong and healthy system of animals responsible for their 'sacrifice.' They actually enter that system themselves and serve it through many material resources on micro, mezzo and macro levels. Their mentality strengthens and honors the system, contributing to it rather than placing blame upon it for unequal treatment and mentalities of evil that spread lies and false narratives of inferiority and superiority, dominance and forced subservience or delusional scenarios of separate competition leading to a 'winner,' rather than union and worthwhile sacrifice representing a concerted effort to fulfill the grander designs of nature and the full will of God.