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Those commands are talking about sacrificial animals, and animals for food, and their blood. The Mosaic law also said this about those fleshly animal sacrifices:
It said you have to pour the blood of those animal sacrifices on God's altar of sacrifice. Do you do that, CynicalBear, or do you just observe certain parts you select from the Mosaic Law to obey?------------------------------------------------------------
But the holy things which are due from you, and your votive offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place which the Lord will choose, and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat.
Deuteronomy 12:26-27
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Among numerous other superceded laws, here are just a few of many possible examples showing how the Mosaic Law also declared the following obsolete laws, which the New Covenant of Jesus Christ did away with:
When was the last time you obeyed any of those Old Covenant laws, CynicalBear? (Or do you just like to pick and choose which of the many laws in the Old Mosaic Covenant you are willing to obey?)------------------------------------------------------------
If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24
For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
Leviticus 20:9
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 20:13
A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:27
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s and he shall go out alone.
Exodus 21:2-4
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Exodus 21:7
You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
Exodus 22:18
Whoever sacrifices to any god, save to the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed.
Exodus 22:20
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(You are espousing and living under the old, defunct Mosaic Covenant (at least part of it), which you obviously "pick and choose" from for yourself, obeying some of those laws, and rejecting the others. As Jesus said, He brought us a "New Covenant" to live by, and it is not the same as the "Old Covenant".)
Many times, even before the "Last Supper", Jesus said, "You have heard it said...but I say...", and He changed (by His Sovereign Will) some law or precept from the old Mosaic covenant. Our Lord also commanded us to "eat His flesh", and "drink His blood". It is very arrogant and foolish to disregard those solemn commands which came directly from the mouth of Our Lord.
So, are you then saying that drinking HUMAN blood is OK since The OT Law did not specifically prohibit it?
“‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.’
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter:
“The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
The complicating factor here is that the VERY FIRST prohibition against eating blood came long before the Mosaic law was given.
So Catholics cannot use the *It's only under the Law* tactic any more.
Genesis 9:4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life , that is, its blood.
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
That is NOT Old Testament or Mosaic Law. It hasn't been superseded or obsolete under the new covenant. And please don't come back with that lame comment about the blood being from animals sacrificed. It says and from blood, not and their blood.