What does the bible say about not eating blood?
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Gen. 9:4 says: "Only flesh with its soul--its blood--you must not eat." \n\nOdindmar says: "Getting a blood transfusion is not eating. It is injected into your system in order to save your life. Not an act against God's will." This is not true. In a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusion really be obeying the command to "keep abstaining froom...blood? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly in his veins?
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that individuals and families must make personal decisions regarding medical care and organ donations. As a religion, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the scriptures demonstrate a clear pattern indicating the sacredness with which Jehovah God (and thus god-fearing humankind) views all creature blood.\n\n\nPredates Mosaic Law.\nFor example, over a thousand years before the birth of Moses, the pre-Israel, pre-Jewish, pre-Hebrew man Noah received what the scriptures record as only the second restrictive command on humans (after Garden of Eden's tree):\n\n"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it [that is, lifeblood] and of man" (Genesis 9:3-5)\n\n\nJewish Law.\nLater, God's feeling regarding blood was codified into the Mosaic Law. This part of the Law dealing with blood was unique in that it applied, not just to Israel, but also to non-Jewish foreigners among them. It's also interesting that besides forbidding the consumption of blood, the Law also mandated that it be 'poured out on the ground', not used for any purpose.\n\n"No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust." (Lev 17:12,13)\n\nBy comparison, it's significant that the Law also forbid the consumption of ceremonial animal fat, but that didn't apply to non-Jewish foreigners and it DID allow the fat to be used for other purposes.\n\n"The LORD said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use" (Lev 7:22-24)\n\n\nEarly Christian era.\nThe Christian era ended the validity of the Mosaic Law, but remember that the restriction on eating blood preceded the Mosaic Law by over a thousand years. Still, does the New Testament indicate that Jehovah God changed his view of blood's sacredness?\n\n"[God] freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses" (Eph 1:6,7)\n\n"[God's] beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins... and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood" (Colossians 1:13-20)\n\n"we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood." (Acts 15:19,20)\n\n"For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity." Acts 15:28,29\n\n\nModern times\nSome will claim that the bible's command to "abstain" from blood only applies to eating it, and does not apply to the use of blood for other purpose. If that form of respect for blood were common among Christendom, one might wonder then why so many (who ostensibly follow the book of Acts) so happily eat their blood sausage and blood pudding if they truly respect blood according to some limited understanding of Acts 15:20,29. In fact, respect for blood and for Acts and for the Scriptures themselves is too rare among even supposedly god-fearing persons.\n\nAn honest review of the Scriptural pattern over the millenia from Noah to the Apostle Paul teaches humans that blood is to be used for a single purpose: acknowledgi
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Jesus ate no unclean meats.\nIsaiah 66:15-17For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.16- For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many,17- They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, EATING SWINE'S FLESH, AND THE ABOMINATION, AND THE MOUSE, SHALL BE CONSUMED TOGETHER SAYS THE LORD.\n  I don't think we have seen the Lord come back with such fury, as spoken in these verses, so this  is yet to come, and we can see quite clearly from these verses, unclean meat is still considered unclean meats today as well as in the Old Testament.
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I only know of OT ones:\n\nLeviticus 19:28 - Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD. \n\nDeuteronomy 14:1 - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead.
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CHRISTIANS DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW JESUS; DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT, "FOR ALL SEEK THEIR OWN, NOT THE THINGS WHICH ARE JESUS CHRIST'S."--(PHIL.2:21)\n  ** TEXTS THAT INVOLVE THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS:\nGEN.18:7-8; LEV.11; 20:25; DEUT.14; ISAIAH 66:17; EZEK.22:26; DAN.1:8; MATT.3:4; LUKE 24:41-43; ACTS 10:10-14; 1COR.3:16-17; 9:27; 2COR.6:17; AND REV.21:8.\n----TO ME; IF THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS WEREN'T VALID FOR TODAY; THEN WHY OH WHY WOULD THE LORD PLEAD WITH FLESH NOT TO EAT UNCLEAN MEAT--(ISAIAH 66:15-17). ALSO NOTICE DEUT.14:4 "SHALT NOT EAT ANY ABOMINABLE THING" AND REV.21:8 "...THE ABOMINABLE SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH."\nI COULD GO ON AND ON; BUT I TEST YOU TO TEST IT FOR YOURSELF LIKE SDA'S HAVE:\n#1. COOK HAM WELL DONE.\n#2. LOOK UNDER MICROSCOPE ON HAM.\n#3. YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED OF WHAT YOU WILL FIND!\n\n**By the way JEWS don't eat pig either.
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Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”\n\nSo, the bible clearly states that he is dead, not in heaven or the hell that the churches teach. He is in the ground!\n\nTo learn more about what the bible really teaches, have your bible ready and visit www.watchtower.org, or you can contact me.
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Some Sabbath Churches believe in only eating the clean meat and not the unclean meat because it's in the Bible.\n\n** TEXTS THAT INVOLVE THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS:\nGEN.18:7-8; LEV.11; 20:25; DEUT.14; ISAIAH 66:17; EZEK.22:26; DAN.1:8; MATT.3:4; LUKE 24:41-43; ACTS 10:10-14; 1COR.3:16-17; 9:27; 2COR.6:17; AND REV.21:8.\n\n----TO ME; IF THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS WEREN'T VALID FOR TODAY; THEN WHY OH WHY WOULD THE LORD PLEAD WITH FLESH NOT TO EAT UNCLEAN MEAT--(ISAIAH 66:15-17). ALSO NOTICE DEUT.14:4 "SHALT NOT EAT ANY ABOMINABLE THING" AND REV.21:8 "...THE ABOMINABLE SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH."\n\n\nNow there's only the SDA church that I know of that are against eating the clean meat; they preach on the clean and unclean meats, but decide on themselves that in the future there are going to be diseases in the meat. Such as Mad Cow, Deer disease and etc.\nBut God says to the SDA's in 1Tim.4:1-3 ;  that they can eat the clean meats; but some are so brainwashed in the church that they forgot what God said.\n\nWell someone mentioned blood too; here's the text\n"Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood."--Lev.17:12. [also look at Lev.17:14)
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under the mosaic law, jews were required to sacrifice animals and the blood was to atone for their sins (leviticus 4:4-7, 13-18, 22-30,   16:11-16) \nhowever, the blood of animals only covered sins for a short while and sacrifices had to be made frequently. when Jesus came to earth, he was perfect. his blood could cover all sins once for all time (hebrews 9:11,12). this is for all people who will accept the truth about Him. those who do not accept Jesus as the only salvation, or those who sin unrepentantly will not receive the blessings of Jesus's shed blood. \nwithout a perfect human dying, there could be no salvation. in the garden of eden, adam sinned and thus every man, woman and child decended from him will inherit sin (romans 5:12). using the biblical principle of an eye for an eye etc(deuteronomy 19:21), a perfect life must be given for a perfect life. therefore, the perfection adam lost for mankind, Jesus bought back with his life.
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"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Leviticus 20:13.\n\nuse that one if you dont believe paul
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There's a passage of Scripture that speaks of how "A LITTLE wine is good for the infirmities of the stomach", and the Bible speaks openly of it's SYMBOLISM involving purity. Therefore, I would say, don't drink it in excess, for being drunk displeases God and damages the Temple (us) in which He wants to dwell.
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Actually the Bible says we are allowed to eat meat. \n\nHowever there is a discussion about this in Romans 14. It basically says that eating meat is not bad in of itself, however if a person feels like it is bad, then it is bad for them and we are to respect that.\n\nAlso as for Daniel, he did not eat meat because the meat that was available to him was from animals that had been sacraficed to idols (other gods). (Dan 1:8-15)Daniel didn't want to eat that meat because he felt like it went against God, so he and 3 others asked that they only be given vegetables to eat. The king over them worried that they would not be as healthy if they did not eat meat, but they allowed it. At the end of a period of time, Daniel and those who ate only vegetables became stronger and healthier than those who ate the meat sacraficed to idols. It was asomething God did supernaturally to prove to the people He is God. But that was an isolated event. People today don't usually sacrafice animals to other Gods, but if they did, then yes, it would be wrong to eat that particular meat.
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You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.
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Leviticus 11:7 - And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. \n\nThis chapter talks about what you can eat.
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Jesus' blood is what the Bible speaks about alone, it is the only way to God. God has no mother as the Bible states He is the Alpha and the Omega. The virgin Mary was a good woman but the Bible didn't put her above God or said that she was in Heaven. The Bible says that the only way to Heaven is through Jesus Christ. Follow Him only and what the Bible says.
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That has been the pagan practices of a very Old Tradition when man was still grappling for an answer for what is a better offer to their God.. a young blood, an enemy's blood, a basket of fruits, an animal blood, a virgin's blood, a hunter's kill, a stranger, a sinner, a witch, criminal or yourself as a sacrifice? Is it really okay to kill in the name of God.\nIn Ezekiel 18: 32 God declared that "For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord. Repent and live.'\nMeaning even He is oppose to killing. All He wanted is for you to go back to being good so that you could live.\nIsrael at that time of Ezekiel had even blamed God for being unjust and so God then told them "Is it not your ways that are unjust?" a simple question that proved man got the wrong interpretations on the words of God and they did what God did not tell them to do.\nBut that killing part was even seen by Jesus when he spoke to his disciples. John 16:1-3 "All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; IN FACT, A TIME IS COMING WHEN ANYONE WHO KILLS YOU WILL THINK HE IS OFFERING A SERVICE TO GOD. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.\nThat kind of killing is being done by one major religion who thinks they are offering service to God and they really think they know God so much which they dont.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the scriptures demonstrate a clear pattern indicating the sacredness with which Jehovah God (and thus god-fearing humankind) views all creature blood.\n\nPredates Mosaic Law.\nFor example, over a thousand years before the birth of Moses, the pre-Israel, pre-Jewish, pre-Hebrew man Noah received what the scriptures record as only the second restrictive command on humans (after Garden of Eden's tree):\n\n"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it [that is, lifeblood] and of man" (Genesis 9:3-5)\n\nJewish Law.\nLater, God's feeling regarding blood was codified into the Mosaic Law. This part of the Law dealing with blood was unique in that it applied, not just to Israel, but also to non-Jewish foreigners among them. It's also interesting that besides forbidding the consumption of blood, the Law also mandated that it be 'poured out on the ground', not used for any purpose.\n\n"No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust." (Lev 17:12,13)\n\nBy comparison, it's significant that the Law also forbid the consumption of ceremonial animal fat, but that didn't apply to non-Jewish foreigners and it DID allow the fat to be used for other purposes.\n\n"The LORD said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use" (Lev 7:22-24)\n\nEarly Christian era.\nThe Christian era ended the validity of the Mosaic Law, but remember that the restriction on eating blood preceded the Mosaic Law by over a thousand years. Still, does the New Testament indicate that Jehovah God changed his view of blood's sacredness?\n\n"[God] freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses" (Eph 1:6,7)\n\n"[God's] beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins... and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood" (Colossians 1:13-20)\n\n"we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood." Acts 15:19,20\n\n"For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity." Acts 15:28,29\n\n\nFor most Jehovah's Witness parents, they would never "let their child die" but would work with every health care professional they could find to pursue every non-blood treatment they could think of.
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They can, but through faith choose not to.  It should be mentioned that only 13% of those refusing blood are witnesses.  The Bible says the blood is the soul, so by taking a blood transfusion, you are infusing someone else's soul into yourself.  The Bible also teaches not to take in blood.\n\nMany great medical achievements have happened as a result of their refusals.  Doctors had to develop methods to avoid excess blood loss, always a good idea.  UCLA now does bloodless liver transplants.  \n\n100% of people taking blood experience side affects.  Blood transfusions lowers the immunal response, with large transfusions used to shut down the immune system for transplants.  The immunal response is a lot like that of AIDS.  If you get sick after a transmission, its with a rare illness, not a common one.\n\nIn England, the blood supply is no longer considered safe, due to mad cow disease.  Anyone under 18 can only receive a transfusion of blood imported from America.