Can Christians eat pigs blood?

Mark51 · Apr 10, 2019

There was only one use of blood that God ever approved, namely, for sacrifice because “life“ is in the blood. (Leviticus 7:26, 27; 17:10-14) This decree recognizes God’s command not to eat blood, as given to Noah and his sons and, therefore, to all mankind.

Under the Christian arrangement, offering animal blood was no longer necessary because of Christ’s sacrifice. (Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 9:12-15; 10:1-4, 8-10; 28, 29) The Christian congregation, under the direction of the holy spirit, ruled on the matter of blood.-Acts 15:22, 28, 29; 21:25.

Misuse of blood (ingesting) shows disrespect for such a sacrifice.

yeshuaslavejeff · Apr 10, 2019

"Follow Jesus" He never transgressed, and never will. Go, and do likewise, sin no more. Simple, true, Biblical, leading to life, from life in Jesus.

ewq1938 · Apr 11, 2019

pilgrimage said:
I have a recipe for black pudding that uses 2 cups of pig blood. I was going to get some in a tube but I didn't know if Christians are bound to not eat blood?

Not eating blood was for Jews of the old covenant, not for Christians. There is no law against eating blood for Christians in fact we drink Christ's blood and many take that strictly literal.

Gregory Thompson · Apr 11, 2019

Soyeong said:
I cited a lot of verses to support my position, so if you think that they would have disagreed, then please explain why.

The Bible does not say anything about efficiency being relevant or about the Mosaic Law being inefficient, and if you think that this was evidenced by Scripture, then please cite it. The Mosaic straightforwardly did was it was given to do and did not do what it was not given to do. Everything taught in the NT is based on and in accordance with what was taught in the NT, so there is nothing that was improved. You can't have a better set of instructions for how to walk in God's ways without following a better God with better ways.

In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, so following it is about expressing our faith in God to guide us in how to rightly live. Living by faith is always associated with living in obedience to God's will, such as with the examples of saving faith listed in Hebrews 11, whereas disobedience to God's instructions is referred to as breaking faith, such as in Numbers 5:6. In James 2:17-18, he said that faith without works is dead and that he would show his faith by his works, so obedience to God's Law is what faith looks like, which is why Paul said in Romans 2:13 that it is only the doers of the Law who will be justified and not the hearers. Trusting God through refusing to follow His instructions is not a concept that is found anywhere in the Bible.

There are certainly night and day differences between how health it is to eat clean and unclean animals and there are an incredible amount of parasites and diseases that have been transferred to humans through eating unclean animals, so perhaps health had something to do with it. However, in 1 Peter 1:16, we are told to have a holy conduct for God is holy, which is a quote from Leviticus where God was giving instructions for how to have a holy conduct, which includes Leviticus 11:44-45, so God associated His holiness with refraining from eating unclean animals and following those instructions is about testifying to the holiness of our God. So there is much more to it than being survival information for starting up a new settlement.

I find the main different between the above perspective and my own is premise of understanding, that's all.

To follow the above instructions in my current calling, would be disobedient, since I am not under the law, and being under the law would be generally inefficient to completing my assigned tasks.

But one person has this gift and another that.

mmksparbud · Apr 11, 2019

ewq1938 said:
Not eating blood was for Jews of the old covenant, not for Christians. There is no law against eating blood for Christians in fact we drink Christ's blood and many take that strictly literal.

Go ahead and drink it---
Act_15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Act_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.
Act_21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

ewq1938 · Apr 11, 2019

mmksparbud said:
Go ahead and drink it---
Act_15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Act_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.
Act_21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

I agree with commentators that say all these things were part of pagan religious rituals fully unrelated to recipes for blood sausage. They also drank the blood uncooked and raw. It isn't a prohibition from using blood in recipes.

mmksparbud · Apr 11, 2019

ewq1938 said:
I agree with commentators that say all these things were part of pagan religious rituals fully unrelated to recipes for blood sausage. They also drank the blood uncooked and raw. It isn't a prohibition from using blood in recipes.

Well then--eat it---you will never answer to me for what you do! It clearly says to stay away from idols AND from things strangled AND from fornication And from blood. So as long as those are not being done in a pagan ritual I guess you're good to go on them all.

ewq1938 · Apr 11, 2019

mmksparbud said:
Well then--eat it---you will never answer to me for what you do! It clearly says to stay away from idols AND from things strangled AND from fornication And from blood. So as long as those are not being done in a pagan ritual I guess you're good to go on them all.

Context matters. The part about blood is definitely regarding how the pagans would drink blood during religious rituals. It is way out of context to say they opposed making and eating blood sausages.

mmksparbud · Apr 11, 2019

ewq1938 said:
Context matters. The part about blood is definitely regarding how the pagans would drink blood during religious rituals. It is way out of context to say they opposed making and eating blood sausages.

Right! Take one out of 4 and apply it to something else---if it works for you so you can have what you want, then......Of, course they also had pagan ritual sexual orgies and I guess they must have strangled animals in their rituals also. Whatever helps you from having to give up something you want.

ewq1938 · Apr 11, 2019

mmksparbud said:
Right! Take one out of 4 and apply it to something else---

That's what you have done. I have kept it in context with the other 3.

mmksparbud · Apr 11, 2019

ewq1938 said:
That's what you have done. I have kept it in context with the other 3.

So you think I have only taken blood out of context---silly me---and here I thought I had put all 4 on the do not do list.

"Greeks of very past times used to sacrifice a bull to Dionysus Zagrea- one of the precocious forms of god Dionysus. They believed that eating his raw fleshes would drink the blood of god and take his force. Much later, the Christianism substituted the blood with the wine, and used it as symbol of blood of Christ. Simultaneously, following the Judaic tradition, the Christians prohibited the consumption of animal’s blood because the immortal soul lives in it. The punishment for such signs, according to the 67th rule of the Synod of Troulos, was the aphorism and the lost of eternity. The Byzantine State, connected with the Christian church, imposed severe punishments to those sold or ate blood foods. The 58th Neara, one of the laws of the emperor Leon the Wise, imposed humiliating hair cut, confiscation of property and exile to those who broke the prohibition. However, the tradition was powerful and the Christians did not stop using animal’s blood in certain foods, just as the pagans did."
Blood in food

hu1tz · Apr 12, 2019

mmksparbud said:
Yes, He did. I told him I was going to tell his Rabbi. "You don't know who he is!" As he walked away grinning and munching on the pizza.

u should just have told him that the pepporoni pieces were made from the un-kosher part of those kosher pigs. that probbly would have stopped him.

mmksparbud · Apr 12, 2019

hu1tz said:
u should just have told him that the pepporoni pieces were made from the un-kosher part of those kosher pigs. that probbly would have stopped him.

I doubt it--he was very unconventional with a wicked sense of humor!

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