By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

In the week since he was shot dead while eating a homeless man’s face and dubbed a “cannibal zombie,” the world has learned more and more about Rudy Eugene’s life before he got a taste for flesh, including that he was a devout Christian.

Although he no longer went to church regularly, the 31-year-old from Miami, Florida, was proud of his bible study lessons and often sent inspirational text messages to his friends, or made religious status updates on Facebook, such as recently writing a verse from Psalm 59 that read, “Deliver me from my enemies, O my Lord; Defend me from those who rise up against me. For the Lord God is my defense,” reported the Miami Herald.

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Many of his postings on the social media site mention “Zoe Life” — a phrase both associated with Haitian life and with born-again Christians, and his final message on May 18, proclaimed: “ZOE LIFE IS ETERNAL!!!!!!!!!”

On May 24, two days before he viciously attacked Ronald Edward Poppo, chewing off much of his face, Eugene attended a Bible-study session at a friend’s North Miami Beach home and even discussed with pal Bobby Chery how they could become better people in the eyes of God, with Rudy vowing to give up marijuana.

While childhood friend Johansen Aurelus, with whom he attended Bethel Baptist Church as teenagers, used to call him “preacher” because he liked sharing Bible verses always kept his Bible handy.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Rudy’s longtime girlfriend claimed that a voodoo curse – not synthetic drugs called bath salts - turned him into a violent, raging zombie before being shot dead by police.