Why Can't I Drink Blood?

HARK! said:

Gentiles are baruch every day when they turn their lives over to the covenant that YHWH made with Israel, and accept Yahshua, as their Messiah to lead them from the bondage of lawlessness.

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"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Luke 13:24-28 "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

HARK! said:

Why not? Aren't bacteria and parasites, YHWH's creatures?

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I didn't say it was forbidden. I said it wasn't smart.

Why WOULD you drink blood?
There are so many other much more delicious options out there...

Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you , will seek to enter and will not be able.

HARK! said:

He was speaking of Pharisaic doctrine, the Talmud. That along with the death decrees, for those who hear and obey YHWH's law, is what was nailed to the torture stake.

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I’m sorry - I’m not sure if this is something that needed a reply from me.

As far as the teachings being from Judaism that’s what I meant. And we are no longer under “the Law” meaning the extensive Mosaic law (and all that was added to it). But we are of course bound to dictates of Christian love.

I’m not really interested in arguing specifically about blood.

I see you weren’t actually asking a question though.

My concern is that we must not pull verses from here and there and apply them against each other in a narrow, literal sense.

HARK! said:

Why not?
(CLV) 1Ti 4:3
forbidding to marry, abstaining from foods, which God creates to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who believe and realize the truth,
(CLV) 1Ti 4:4
seeing that every creature of God is ideal and nothing is to be cast away, being taken with thanksgiving,
Didn't Abba call it food in Genesis or Leviticus?

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Probably not.
Must look for and find the Particularly Jewish Sites to find the actual meaning,
which is lacking in those who think they can disobey (to start with) before they (as if) 'determine' which meaning lets them fit to their liking and continue doing what they do, lawlessly.

So much tradition is wrong, (especially about Jesus Blood), it's not likely possible to convince someone who trusts in tradition to turn from it.

HARK! said:

Yahshua said:

(CLV) Mk 7:15
Nothing is there outside of a man, going into him, which can contaminate him, but those things going out of a man are what is contaminating the man....


...(CLV) Ac 15:20
but to write an epistle to them to be abstaining from ceremonial pollution with idols, and prostitution, and what is strangled, and blood.

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I have understood Jesus means, nothing you eat, contaminates you spiritually. There is no food that could kill your soul. But it may be better not to eat everything. Because Jesus says:

Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mat. 5:17-19

And it is said that we should not eat blood, and it is also said:

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:3

Therefore, I recommend not to eat blood, if you love God.

I think it is also good to think, even if it would not be wrong, is it good to do so. Even if everything would be lawful, everything is not necessarily good for you.

1213 said:

I have understood Jesus means, nothing you eat, contaminates you spiritually. There is no food that could kill your soul.

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What about killing someone else's soul ? destroying their faith by disobeying Jesus ?

I think the Apostles warned about this, and said it is better not to do something , even if it is permitted, if doing something causes another to stumble - if doing something destroys their faith ...... (probably in Corinthians, but I'm not sure)....

Martin Luther probably loved God before he got saved.
He thought he was obeying God's commandments,
until God showed him otherwise, and he was willing to repent.

HARK! said:

John 14:15 New King James Version
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

(CLV) 1Jn 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we may be keeping His precepts. And His precepts are not heavy,

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Again I can’t tell if this needs a response.

Peace to you.

HARK! said:

(CLV) Mt 15:24
Now He, answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

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Jesus tried to tell the lost sheep of Israel not to throw stones, not to get angry, not to murder. They did not repent. In 66 AD the Jews attacked and started to kill the Roman Army. In 70 AD they lost the war. Many Jews starved to death, were killed, or captured and made to serve as slaves. They should not have attacked. They should have learned to turn the other cheek.

Matthew 11:71 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”

God has done a wonderful thing. God has tamed Gentile Christians.

Erev Tov.

HARK! said:

Why not?

(CLV) 1Ti 4:3
forbidding to marry, abstaining from foods, which God creates to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who believe and realize the truth,

(CLV) 1Ti 4:4
seeing that every creature of God is ideal and nothing is to be cast away, being taken with thanksgiving,

Didn't Abba call it food in Genesis or Leviticus?

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Nope. No one even knew what bacteria was then. When he said " every creature" no one would have thought. " Oh, that includes bacteria. "
That's probably why he originally gave so many rules about what foods they could eat, because of lack of food preservation and no knowledge of germs and bacteria.

HARK! said:

These are very good points.

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"I think it is also good to think, even if it would not be wrong, is it good to do so. Even if everything would be lawful, everything is not necessarily good for you."

Oh, so it's a good point when he says it, but not when I say it?