JayJayDee
Avid JW Bible Student
Jews eat kosher meat, do you? And kosher meat is not just hanging up the animal and bleeding it out.
The word "kosher" is not found in the Torah. It is attached more to later Judaism than to ancient practices.
We show respect for blood by not eating it or consuming it in any way. It is sacred to God and due respect is to be given to the reason why God forbids its consumption in the first place.
In the Law that Jehovah gave the Israelites, he commanded: As for any man . . . who in hunting catches a wild beast or a fowl that may be eaten, he must in that case pour its blood out and cover it with dust. . . . I said to the sons of Israel: You must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh. (Leviticus 17:13, 14)
Gods command not to eat animal blood, first given to Noah some 800 years earlier, was still in force. Jehovahs view was clear: His servants could eat animal meat but not the blood. They were to pour the blood on the groundin effect, returning the creatures life to God.
The more elaborate ritual attached to later kosher definitions were more about rabbinical interpretation that God's written word.
All God required was for the blood to be poured out on the ground...nothing more. Modern Jews cannot even eat an egg that has a speck of blood in it. That is their interpretation, not a command in scripture.
Do JWs eat steak that is not well done? You eat blood all the time in your meat yet you take a passage that is about animal blood in meat and put so much emphasis on blood tranfusions.
We take God's word as law, not man's over the top interpretation. Why do you think Jesus castigated the Pharisees at every opportunity? He said that they 'strained out the gnat, but gulped down the camel'...both considered "unclean" under the law.
There is nothing in God's word that forbids the consumption of a rare properly bled steak.
I am sure even you can see the difference between eating a piece of juicy steak and guzzling down a litre of blood. Seriously