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   From: sam@spade.invalid   
      
   James wrote:   
      
   > blood: What a Bible doctor wrote.   
   >   
   > Notice what was said to Noah:   
   >   
   > -- New King James   
   > Genesis 9:4  "But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its   
   > blood.   
   >   
   > Yes, before the Mosaic Laws came, God forbad Noah and his family to   
   > eat (drink) blood. That is how precious it is to God.   
   >   
   > Next notice the Mosaic Laws:   
   >   
   > -- New King James   
   > Leviticus 3:17  `This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your   
   > generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor   
   > blood.' ''   
   >   
   > So the eating of blood was reinserted into the Law Covenant.   
   >   
   > But Christians are not under the Law Covenant. They were done away   
   > with by Jesus' death.   
   >   
   > -- New King James   
   > Romans 10:4  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to   
   > everyone who believes.   
   >   
   > -- New King James   
   > Colossians 2:14  having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that   
   > was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of   
   > the way, having nailed it to the cross.(stauros- an upright stake)   
   >   
   > So now we are past those Mosaic Laws and now are into Christianity. Is   
   > it there also? YES. Christians can't drink blood either. But there is   
   > more. The way Luke, the doctor, worded it, engulfs a lot more. Here is   
   > the Scripture:   
   >   
   > -- New King James   
   > Acts 15:20  "but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted   
   > by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from   
   > blood.   
   >   
   > Notice here he didn't say 'eat' blood, but to "ABSTAIN" from blood.   
   > Strong's Concordace defines what "abstain" found in translations as:   
   >   
   > "Strong's Ref. # 567   
   >   
   > Romanized  apechomai   
   > Pronounced ap-ekh'-om-ahee   
   >   
   > middle voice (reflexively) of GSN0568; to hold oneself off, i.e.   
   > refrain:   
   >   
   > KJV--abstain."   
   >   
   > Thus, besides drinking blood, Christians are to "refrain" from blood,   
   > such as getting a blood transfusion, etc.   
   >   
   > Sincerely James   
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   Would you refuse a blood transfusion if it were the only way to save   
   your life?   
      
   Would you refuse a blood transfusion for your child if it were the only   
   way to save his life?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)