Is It Ok To Consume Food That Has Blood?

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, bopeep1909 said:

I like a nice juicy t-bone steak cooked medium. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that in the eyes of God.

I prefer medium rare myself but........If I were living in a country under something like Islamic law, where such were illegal, I would not offend that government so as to cause persecution upon myself or others, no I would give up my preference.

[Guest Teditis]

Doesn't ALL meat have blood in it? You can't get rid of it... just bleed most of the blood out of it. But blood still remains.

You can't cook it out of it either... it remains, just more cooked. So I don't see the logic in most of these responses.

There's an "other" meaning to the verses that tell us not to eat blood.

[Qnts2]

1 hour ago, Teditis said:

Doesn't ALL meat have blood in it? You can't get rid of it... just bleed most of the blood out of it. But blood still remains.

You can't cook it out of it either... it remains, just more cooked. So I don't see the logic in most of these responses.

There's an "other" meaning to the verses that tell us not to eat blood.

During butchering, there are methods to remove the majority of blood. Then while the meat is within 72 hours, salt will draw out the majority of the rest of the blood. 

The logic for me is simple. Gods says not to consume blood so blood should not be consumed, to the best of our ability. That is the literal meaning of the verses.

 

[Guest Teditis]

5 minutes ago, Qnts2 said:

During butchering, there are methods to remove the majority of blood. Then while the meat is within 72 hours, salt will draw out the majority of the rest of the blood. 

The logic for me is simple. Gods says not to consume blood so blood should not be consumed, to the best of our ability. That is the literal meaning of the verses.

 

I understand what you're saying but my point was that most people just don't go through

the trouble of drawing out excess blood... not back then, in "Biblical times", or now. Besides

the meat is saturated with blood... it's impossible for us not to consume blood whenever we eat meat.

Therefore the Scriptures must be referring to something more specific here since it doesn't mention the caveat

of "to the best of your ability"...

[HAZARD]

There are tribes in Africa that drink blood like we drink water.

In the Old Testament, God told Israel not to eat blood.

Lev. 17:11, 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.
Lev. 17:14, 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.
Deut.  12:23, Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

Jesus came to fulfil the Old Covenant laws and gave us a new covenant. In Col. 2:16 it is stated;

Coll. 2:16, 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:

So it seems one is allowed to eat and drink what one desires. Personally, I would not drink blood, ever, but I do eat meat well done.

 

[HAZARD]

I would never even consider drinking blood.

[tigger398]

Sorry but drinking blood is just gross lol

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, tigger398 said:

Sorry but drinking blood is just gross lol

Well, I certainly would not take a person's blood in a glass and drink it down for breakfast. I am not a vampire. But a nice piece of meat that has blood in it is not against what Scripture says. What meat doesn't have blood in it. Then a person would have to be a vegetarian?

In Christ, these food laws are obsolete, and the New Testament gives no blanket instruction for the church concerning food (Romans 14:14; 1 Timothy 4:3). Romans 14:1–4 teaches, “Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else’s servant?” Scripture allows the Christian to have individual freedom regarding the consumption of meat and how it’s cooked.

http://www.gotquestions.org/eating-meat-with-blood.html

[MorningGlory]

5 hours ago, Ezra said:

Since that is your own spin on it, we will simply disregard it.  From the time of Noah to the first century AD, it was the same prohibition. 

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. (Genesis 9:3,4).

 

Is it possible that the verse above is a prohibition on eating raw meat?  Or creatures that are still alive? Or worse yet, cannibalism? 

[missmuffet]

28 minutes ago, MorningGlory said:

Is it possible that the verse above is a prohibition on eating raw meat?  Or creatures that are still alive? Or worse yet, cannibalism? 

Yes,MG I believe those verses that Ezra posted Genesis 9:3-4 is referring to cannibalism not eating a steak that is cooked rare or medium.

After the global flood, God gave Noah permission to eat meat. "Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything” (Genesis 9:3). However, God specifies that the “food for you” does not include fellow human beings. People are treated much differently from animals: “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind” (Genesis 9:6).

http://www.gotquestions.org/cannibalism-Bible.html