1) Various pagan groups believed that the life of an animal, including humans, came from the blood, not from God.
2) They also believed that by consuming the blood or various organs including the heart and/or the liver that you could acquire the attributes of those enemies.
God didn't want them thinking that they could acquire these attributes and He wanted them to understand that all life came from God, even animal life.
In addition the prohibition about eating certain foods was because various animals commonly carry certain diseases. Trichinosis comes to mind.
When Jesus gave the bread of life discourse in John 6 and performed the consecration at the last supper He was making it clear that life come from God alone.
I hope this sheds light and does not add heat.
It sheds light and creates heat based on which side of the equation you’re coming down on.
But that can’t be helped. It comes with presenting the truth.
Thanks for the insight. That was very enlightening.
I think that you are assigning motives to YHWH which, while seemingly self-evident, are not necessarily true. In that is the inherent assumption that we are so much more intelligent and informed by way of comparison to our forefathers, and by way of that intelligence and information, we gain the hubris to change for ourselves what YHWH said was eternally defined.
It is the same old lie, right from the Garden: 'YHWH didn't REALLY say...'