Leviticus 17-18
This year, I plan on reading the Old Testament of the Bible within the 2012 calendar year. Follow me on this journey! Please, if you have questions or comments... let me know!
Scripture Thought (What I Learned):
Chapter 17: Don't Eat Blood
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If anyone kills an animal and does not offer it as a
sacrifice to the Lord, shall be cut off from among the people. (Leviticus 17:1-4)
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You shall not offer sacrifices to anything or anyone, except
God. (Leviticus 16:7)
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"The Life of the flesh is blood" (Leviticus 17:11)
o I don't normally talk about other
religions or beliefs outside of my own thoughts and the LDS teachings. But the
issue of blood, and the belief of the Jehovah's Witnesses is interesting to me.
They believe that your soul is in the blood. That is why they do not believe in
blood transfusions or donating blood for that matter. Here is why I don't agree
with that, but again this is my own opinion.
§ Jehovah's Witnesses will use these
scriptures to say that our soul is in our blood, but clearly it is saying that
without blood, the body dies. Just as if you were to take out most any parts or
organs in the body it would shut down.
§ That does not mean that the soul is
in any one of those parts of the body. Think about it, something like 2/3 of
our body is made up of water, could water be our soul? I don't think so.
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Here are some other
scriptures that mention NOT drinking or eating blood. But probably for
other reasons.
o Acts 15:20 and 29
o Genesis 9:4
o Leviticus 7:26; 17:14
o 1 Chronicles 11:19
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No one should eat blood (Leviticus 17:12 and 14)
Chapter 18: Sexual Abominations
The Lord
speaks to Moses and reveals to him some of the abominations of other lands, and
how Moses must instruct the children of Israel so that they do not perform the
same sexual abominations.
- Thou shalt not have incestuous relationships with anyone that is close to kin. (Leviticus 18:6) - I would say that this follows with modern day thought.
- Thou shalt not commit adultery (Leviticus 18:20)
- Thou shalt not engage in homosexual relationships (Leviticus 18:22)
- Thou shalt not commit bestiality (Leviticus 18:23)
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