Bible Question: How can you tell the difference? I mean, the Bible passage says, that you should abstain from blood! (Acts 15:29) And that is in the New Testament!And if I can accept a hosp-transfusion, why can´t I eat blood? What´s wrong with eating blood like in food and stuff, not just drinking it like that.... |
Bible Answer: Grace, This is from an prior post of mine and is offered for support for what Hank has already said. As Hank said, it is essential that all scripture be taken in context to be properly interpreted. Let me also add, you must interpret scripture with scripture, as the Word will NEVER contradict itself. The letter sent to the Gentiles said they would “do well” (commanded?) if they abstained from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled and from sexual immorality (Act_15:29) . Three of these were addressing the eating habits of Gentile Christians. The Gentiles were not bound to the ceremonial Levitical Law (1Co_8:8), but they were not to use their liberty to be a stumbling block to there Jewish neighbors either (1Co_8:9). If they abused their liberty they would be sinning against their brethren, and thus, would be sinning against Jesus (1Co_8:12). I think the instruction for the Gentile Christians to abstain from sexual immorality here does not mean the common acts of fornication, as this was recognized as wrong by all Christians. This was instructions for the Gentiles to observe certain marriage regulations spelled out in the Levitical Law which prohibited marriages between relatives. This was something most Gentiles of that time thought little of. The Gentile believers here were simply asked to give up some of their "rights" as a display of their love for their Jewish brethren. Read 1Co_8:1-13, that will help put this in perspective. God's Word is true! retxar |