Originally posted by Velns
I see, so as there is still some blood left in red meat especially in steak then clearly this is more of a "religious" matter for for you rather a "touch ye not the blood at all under any circumstances" matter, or you would not be able to eat red meat? A bit like kosher or halal food.
So it is not only a health issue but even more important then that is what blood means to God. One has to acknowledge the huge amount of times blood is spoken about in the Bible and how important it is to God even to the point of asking for a "life for a life" if one spills anothers blood and the result is a death.
Also here is a little info on Jesus's blood and how this relates to all blood:
"God’s guidance about blood."
"He told Noah that humans should not consume blood. Then in the Law, God revealed that the only approved use of blood was on the altar—for forgiveness of sin. By those directives, God was laying the groundwork for the supreme use of blood—the saving of lives by means of Jesus’ ransom. (Hebrews 9:14) Yes, God’s guidance was with our life and well-being in mind. Discussing Genesis 9:4, 19th-century Bible scholar Adam Clarke wrote: “This command [to Noah] is still scrupulously obeyed by the oriental Christians . . . No blood was eaten under the law, because it pointed out the blood that was to be shed for the sin of the world; and under the Gospel it should not be eaten, because it should ever be considered as representing the blood which has been shed for the remission of sins.”
This is a brief statement on blood and the sacredness of it. God wanted us to understand his view of blood and even had the statement made that "ones life is in their blood". To God blood is different then any other system or product in anything alive even in the animal world.
We could possibly eat any part of an animal except the blood as God addressed. And that reason is blood is sacred to God and is not to be consumed in any fashion at all ever.
He did not at all ever even hint that blood could be used for anything other then in a sacrificial event.
And if one were to administer by the use of a transfusion ones blood into another human, then one would be injecting ones life into anothers body.
Did God ever give humans the right to do that? Do we have the right and authority from God to do that?
Yes we as humans should use all at our disposal to save another human from possible death if another has met with an accident. No problem with that at all.
But again has God given man the right to use blood that he holds sacred and told us very clearly to not inject into our bodies?
Serious stuff......