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Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

but how do love the Lord your God?
if you me keep my commandments
so if we love God we should also keep his commandments

this includes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

then we should not eat blood but how will you do that there's blood all over the meat you eat you may not see it because it is already cooked but it is still there that is blood just that it is cooked

11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 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. 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

what does it really mean? do not eat meat of all flesh?
 

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Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

but how do love the Lord your God?
if you me keep my commandments
so if we love God we should also keep his commandments

this includes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

then we should not eat blood but how will you do that there's blood all over the meat you eat you may not see it because it is already cooked but it is still there that is blood just that it is cooked

11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 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. 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

what does it really mean? do not eat meat of all flesh?

No, it means the blood must be drained from the animal before cooking.

Satanists, to defy God, drink blood in their ceremonies.
 

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It is not what goes into the body that defiles a person, it is what comes out of a person's heart - that is what is defiling.
but blood is not food
that was said when they were eating food without washing hands
blood was forbidden to be eaten in the very beginning of time
 

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It is not what goes into the body that defiles a person, it is what comes out of a person's heart - that is what is defiling.

and @stredaleve

We still are not to eat or drink the blood.

Acts 15:19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
 

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The liquid blood is the life. It must be completely drained. All that is left is muscle and organs.
but in this modern day does it really being completely drained of blood? i don't think it is

and my family is also eating blood stew with intestines i have tasted it before i quit eating it and it was very tasty
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but in this modern day does it really being completely drained of blood? i don't think it is

and my family is also eating blood stew with intestines i have tasted it before i quit eating it and it was very tasty
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How was the animal killed? Is that what they actually call the dish? Blood stew?
 
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We still are not to eat or drink the blood.
That is correct. The blood must be completely drained from the animal, therefore even strangled animals are forbidden. This does not mean that Christians are to be vegetarians. It simply means that Christians are to abstain from consuming blood.

This is still applicable to Christians, since (a) God placed a high value on the blood of clean animals offered as sacrifices to God before the sacrifice of Christ, (b) the life of the "flesh" (body) is indeed in the blood (as medical science has confirmed) and we are not to consume blood and (c) the shed blood of Christ was for the remission and cleansing of sins, as well as the purchase price of our redemption, and there is no limit to the value of the blood of Christ. Therefore blood has a very special spiritual significance.
 

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Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

but how do love the Lord your God?
if you me keep my commandments
so if we love God we should also keep his commandments

this includes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

then we should not eat blood but how will you do that there's blood all over the meat you eat you may not see it because it is already cooked but it is still there that is blood just that it is cooked

11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 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. 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

what does it really mean? do not eat meat of all flesh?

We could make up a whole new set of rules with the NT by pulling out this verse and that verse an compiling a list similar to the 613 for the children of Jacob... but then what would or should we do with the following verses?


Here Paul expresses how it is supposed to be:

"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not" I Cor 10:23

But then Paul gives the example where a change of our direction may be needed so as to not offend the other guy:

"If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:" I Cor 10:27-28


"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." Col 2:16-17

They are "a shadow"!

"Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh." Col 2:20-23

If they are but a "shadow" where do we find the reality? Carnal food, such as meat and potatoes, water and yes even blood are still only shadows of God message. We are to drink blood, the blood of Jesus, but not the physical red blood that emptied out of his physical body 2000 years ago. It is not available any more than that body of flesh and bone in which he was veiled or housed or dwelled is available to us.

The Israelites were not eat the blood, because that was the life of the beasts they killed and ate... but it was a carnal or natural life. In the beginning men were apparently vegetarians [Gen 1:29], but that seemingly changed as per Gen 9:3-4 but without the blood. [Perhaps this is like moving from milk to meat about which Paul wrote.] Still that is carnal. That is flesh! That is the temporal "type or shadow" of the reality which is Not temporal with some imposed limit. A man often imposes limits on himself and tries to similarly limit other men. God's reality has no limits as God Himself has no limits except as He has allowed men to limit Him in accord with their own wills.

The reality is we are to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus [See John 6:53]. What Paul has written is sometimes perhaps written for the reason Moses wrote things to allow men due to the hardness of their hearts [See Matt 19:18] to continue to have a glimmer of hope for Reality while still walking fleshly ways while still having "time". To continue that way is double mindedness which cannot continue indefinitely... [that there should be time no longer:]

"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" Acts 17:30

So where is the prohibition against this food or even the blood of animals for one walking in the Spirit? What does the Spirit say? "What is it?"



 
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if you me keep my commandments
so if we love God we should also keep his commandments

this includes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Hi, stredaleve, welcome to the forum! I like your little piggy avatar.

Jesus said to keep HIS commands. Where did JESUS command us not to eat meat with blood in it?
 

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That is correct. The blood must be completely drained from the animal, therefore even strangled animals are forbidden. This does not mean that Christians are to be vegetarians. It simply means that Christians are to abstain from consuming blood.

This is still applicable to Christians, since (a) God placed a high value on the blood of clean animals offered as sacrifices to God before the sacrifice of Christ, (b) the life of the "flesh" (body) is indeed in the blood (as medical science has confirmed) and we are not to consume blood and (c) the shed blood of Christ was for the remission and cleansing of sins, as well as the purchase price of our redemption, and there is no limit to the value of the blood of Christ. Therefore blood has a very special spiritual significance.

That is correct as God told Noah.

Genesis 9:
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
 

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Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

but how do love the Lord your God?
if you me keep my commandments
so if we love God we should also keep his commandments

this includes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

then we should not eat blood but how will you do that there's blood all over the meat you eat you may not see it because it is already cooked but it is still there that is blood just that it is cooked

11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 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. 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

what does it really mean? do not eat meat of all flesh?
If you want optimal health stredaleve, abstaining from these things is in your interest.
 
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Ohhhhh!!!.....isn't this a part of there old covenant according to your logic in other posts?? ...what happened on this one CL??

Funny, QT :p

Not when it is written in the New Covenant as a command. Acts 15.

Acts 15:19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
 
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If you want optimal health stredaleve, abstaining from these things is in your interest.

Yes, I agree. Health is one thing. Sin is another. What used to be a sin, is no longer a sin, ever since Gentiles were allowed by God to receive the gospel, where before they were considered like unclean meat, and the Jews were to separate themselves from them both. That's the point - what is sin - whether you believe it or not, except for eating blood from things just strangled. For instance, I wouldn't eat a rat, but if I had to, it would NOT be a sin anymore.

But I do remember last year when I couldn't afford any meat and only ate mostly beans and rice, with salads and fruit and my blood test (that I get every 3 months) showed an extreme drop in my cholesterol. It went down to a normal range. My doctor told me she had never seen that big of a difference in any other patient. When I started being able to afford meat again, my cholesterol went back up.
 
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No, it means the blood must be drained from the animal before cooking.

Satanists, to defy God, drink blood in their ceremonies.
I think there's more to it than just defying God -- yes, there is that, but I think there is more. People get a feeling of being "high" from drinking blood, especially from an animal freshly killed. What appears to be happening is that they are absorbing the "life energy" of the animal's soul so it makes them feel very alive. The downside, in my opinion, is their consciousness will become less human and more like "the beast." Psychologists are mystified by the "symptoms" shown in people who drink blood in magic rituals.

Most people, even sinners, receive some waters of life; but if people abuse it, they are cut off. Before the Flood, no one had to worry. Everyone had relatively easy access to the waters of life; and people lived a long time. That changed; and the access to the waters of life was restricted. This made humans feel weak -- their souls were feeling weak. So they were permitted to eat clean animals -- but not the blood. The blood was too addictive. It would weaken their souls even more after the initial high. We are told about "souls" craving flesh.

Deuteronomy 12:20 When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
 

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Yes, I agree. Health is one thing. Sin is another. What used to be a sin, is no longer a sin, ever since Gentiles were allowed by God to receive the gospel, where before they were considered like unclean meat, and the Jews were to separate themselves from them both. That's the point - what is sin - whether you believe it or not, except for eating blood from things just strangled. For instance, I wouldn't eat a rat, but if I had to, it would NOT be a sin anymore.

But I do remember last year when I couldn't afford any meat and only ate mostly beans and rice, with salads and fruit and my blood test (that I get every 3 months) showed an extreme drop in my cholesterol. It went down to a normal range. My doctor told me she had never seen that big of a difference in any other patient. When I started being able to afford meat again, my cholesterol went back up.
You say CL, 'health is one thing. Sin is another'....that's a curious division! I would say, anything that diminishes one's optimal function is sin.....God's standard is perfection, nothing less.