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To: CynicalBear; metmom; Mark17

You keep making the same irrelevant argument.

Christ ended the mosaic laws about eating. It is in the Bible look it up.

Can you not understand the difference in God’s gift to us with the “His Body and Blood”? Do you not distinguish between the “Body and Blood” of Jesus versus the blood of an animal that you slauhghter for eating?

Jesus told us directly to do this for our salvation. To me you are like the Pharisees that try to follow the strict laws of the Jews, but ignores the intentions of Jesus.

You keep calling Jesus a sinner for taking and giving us “His Body and Blood”.

Let try to understand your argument that it is against God’s law to eat blood. Can Jesus change that law with regard to “His Body and Blood”?


1,515 posted on 01/29/2015 7:22:09 AM PST by ADSUM
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To: ADSUM
>>Jesus told us directly to do this for our salvation.<<

No, He didn't say the physical flesh or the physical blood. He said that His words were spirit and that the flesh profits nothing. I suppose you also believe Jeremiah actually ate the physical scroll also?

>>Can Jesus change that law with regard to “His Body and Blood”?<<

And then the apostles change it back again after His ascension?

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.

Do you see any exceptions in that statement? It's preposterous to think that the apostles sent a letter to all the churches to tell them not to eat blood but then have them sit down and drink blood.

1,518 posted on 01/29/2015 7:47:23 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: ADSUM
But God did NOT end the prohibition against eating blood in the NT but rather reiterated it at the Council of Jerusalem.

Acts 15:12-29 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,

“‘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.”

1,560 posted on 01/29/2015 1:52:34 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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