[Campion]

Can you demonstrate one phrase in the Old Testament where God instructs anyone to drink the blood?

Oh, the old blood hangup. The OT tells you exactly why you aren't to drink blood: "For the life of every creature is its blood; its blood is its life" (Lv 17:14)

Which is exactly why Jesus, who is God, promulgates a new law in commanding us to drink His blood: because we must have his life within us.

It's always funny that you guys are hung up on OT ritual prohibitions. Do you eat pork? Mix linen and wool? Those things really *are* symbolic; when the reality comes, the symbol goes away.

[HossB86]

Which is exactly why Jesus, who is God, promulgates a new law in commanding us to drink His blood: because we must have his life within us.

Which is what we have when we believe on him by faith alone. The only blood that saves is Christ's shed blood on the cross, not in some unbiblical ritual that Roman Cultists practice.

When we're saved, we are regenerated by the power of God Almighty; we have his Holy Spirit -- he makes us new, resurrects our dead souls to eternal life. His life in us is his Holy Spirit given to us through faith by grace.

Not some a piece of bread.

Hoss

[MHGinTN]

The commandment was FOR ALL THEIR GENERATIONS and as far as I can tell Jesus was in those generations through Mary. If Jesus had violated that commandment on Passover night, BEFORE the blood was shed to seal the covenant, well then Jesus would not have been the lamb without spot or blemish. Look at the passage in Luke 22. Compare it to the passages you keep pushing to support this heretical drinking of blood. Is God double-minded? No? well then, how do you reconcile / comprehend the different passages to be of the same meaning? By knowing the wording is a classic use of metaphor. You need not ignore the generations of Jesus, the commandment repeated in the old Testament, and the Times of The Lord to find a common ground for the seemingly disparate passages.

[RnMomof7]

Oh, the old blood hangup. The OT tells you exactly why you aren't to drink blood: "For the life of every creature is its blood; its blood is its life" (Lv 17:14)

UMMMMMM Jesus and the apostles were under that that "old blood hang-up"law thing ...Jesus had to keep the WHOLE LAW PERFECTLY in order to fulfill it and to die the perfect SINLESS LAMB..

That included the entire levitical law.. and not eating blood..