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I can't even count thirty laws without daydreaming. How do you deal with this impossible number?For non-Jews, 7 categories of laws (7 Noahide Laws) comprising about 30 laws altogether.
For Jews, 613 depending how one counts them.
This is incorrect. This is a ban on eating live animals.For example, when Noah got off the ark, God told him that he could eat of all the animals of the ground, but the blood, that represented the life, or the soul of the animal, was to be returned to the ground. It could not be consumed.
So can non-jews eat blood or crossdress or disobey parents? Because those are not apart of the Noahide lawsFor non-Jews, 7 categories of laws (7 Noahide Laws) comprising about 30 laws altogether.
For Jews, 613 depending how one counts them.
We can eat blood, we can cross-dress, but disobeying parents is a no-no.So can non-jews eat blood or crossdress or disobey parents? Because those are not apart of the Noahide laws
This is incorrect. This is a ban on eating live animals.
It says,
But, flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.
The flesh with its soul = a live creature.
Lol... That's crazy... SmhWe can eat blood, we can cross-dress, but disobeying parents is a no-no.
Leviticus and Deuteronomy are for Jews, not for non-Jews. These rules are not part of Noahide Law.It says there that the blood is the soul, or life of the animal. The blood was forbidden, not the meat.
Here are other scriptures that explain it:
(Leviticus 3:17) “‘It is a lasting statute for your generations, in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or any blood at all.’”
(Leviticus 7:26) “‘You must not eat any blood in any of your dwelling places, whether that of birds or that of animals.
(Leviticus 17:10) “‘If any man of the house of Israel or any foreigner who is residing in your midst eats any sort of blood, I will certainly set my face against the one who is eating the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people.
(Leviticus 17:13) “‘If one of the Israelites or some foreigner who is residing in your midst is hunting and catches a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten, he must pour its blood out and cover it with dust.
(Deuteronomy 12:16) But you must not eat the blood; you should pour it out on the ground like water.
(Deuteronomy 12:23) Just be firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the flesh.
(Acts 15:20) but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
(Acts 15:29) to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!”
(Acts 21:25) As for the believers from among the nations, we have sent them our decision in writing that they should keep away from what is sacrificed to idols as well as from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
Leviticus and Deuteronomy are for Jews, not for non-Jews. These rules are not part of Noahide Law.
Acts is not part of my scripture.
Exactly.It says there that the blood is the soul, or life of the animal. The blood was forbidden, not the meat.
Here are other scriptures that explain it:
(Leviticus 3:17) “‘It is a lasting statute for your generations, in all your dwelling places: You must not eat any fat or any blood at all.’”
(Leviticus 7:26) “‘You must not eat any blood in any of your dwelling places, whether that of birds or that of animals.
(Leviticus 17:10) “‘If any man of the house of Israel or any foreigner who is residing in your midst eats any sort of blood, I will certainly set my face against the one who is eating the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people.
(Leviticus 17:13) “‘If one of the Israelites or some foreigner who is residing in your midst is hunting and catches a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten, he must pour its blood out and cover it with dust.
(Deuteronomy 12:16) But you must not eat the blood; you should pour it out on the ground like water.
(Deuteronomy 12:23) Just be firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the flesh.
(Acts 15:20) but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
(Acts 15:29) to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!”
(Acts 21:25) As for the believers from among the nations, we have sent them our decision in writing that they should keep away from what is sacrificed to idols as well as from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
Really?? So is isaiah part of your scripture?Leviticus and Deuteronomy are for Jews, not for non-Jews. These rules are not part of Noahide Law.
Acts is not part of my scripture.
No, as the verses in Genesis showed you, one who is not Jewish can eat blood. Those other verses explain why Jews can't eat blood; they have nothing to do with non-Jews.They were quoted to explain what is being referred to. Blood has always been forbidden to eat in the Bible, before the Mosaic Law, in the Mosaic Law, and to the Christian congregation.
No, as the verses in Genesis showed you, one who is not Jewish can eat blood. Those other verses explain why Jews can't eat blood; they have nothing to do with non-Jews.
No, you are misunderstanding.The verse I quoted in Genesis says that the soul is in the blood and cannot be eaten:
"Only flesh with its life—its blood—you must not eat."-Genesis 9:4.
This was said right after Jehovah said that man could eat the animals. This is referring to the blood of the animal. It was forbidden. They were allowed to eat the animals but they could not eat the blood.
The full context is this:
"Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. Just as I gave you the green vegetation, I give them all to you. 4 Only flesh with its life—its blood—you must not eat."-Genesis 9:3, 4.
Humans were allowed to eat the animals, but they blood the were forbidden from eating.
What laws do you think need to be kept today? 10? 600+? Don't mind being thorough but I see some responses that are miles long so be somewhat concise
That is such a gross interpretationNo, you are misunderstanding.
Here is how Rashi, a Mediaeval Rabbi and Torah commentator and one of the greatest of such, understands this verse:
flesh with its soul: He prohibited them [to eat] a limb [cut off from] a living creature; i.e., as long as its soul is in it, you shall not eat the flesh. — [from Sanh. ad loc.] [i.e., if the limb is cut from the animal while it is alive, it is forbidden to be eaten even after the animal expires.]
with its soul, its blood: As long as its soul is within it.
flesh with its soul…you shall not eat: This refers to a limb of a living creature. And also, its blood, you shall not eat- This refers to blood of a living creature. — [from above source]
Here is how Ramban understands this verse,
'[T]he sons of Noah have been admonished against eating a limb cut from a living animal, as is the opinion of the Sages, but not the blood of a living animal, as is the opinion of Rabbi Chanina ben Gamliel.' -Ramban, Commentary on the Torah, pg 132.
Ramban asserts one can even eat the blood of a living animal if one is not Jewish.
Neither say anything about eating blood being prohibited to non-Jews.
No, you are misunderstanding.
Here is how Rashi, a Mediaeval Rabbi and Torah commentator and one of the greatest of such, understands this verse:
flesh with its soul: He prohibited them [to eat] a limb [cut off from] a living creature; i.e., as long as its soul is in it, you shall not eat the flesh. — [from Sanh. ad loc.] [i.e., if the limb is cut from the animal while it is alive, it is forbidden to be eaten even after the animal expires.]
with its soul, its blood: As long as its soul is within it.
flesh with its soul…you shall not eat: This refers to a limb of a living creature.
And also, its blood, you shall not eat- This refers to blood of a living creature. — [from above source]
Here is how Ramban understands this verse,
'[T]he sons of Noah have been admonished against eating a limb cut from a living animal, as is the opinion of the Sages, but not the blood of a living animal, as is the opinion of Rabbi Chanina ben Gamliel.' -Ramban, Commentary on the Torah, pg 132.
Neither say anything about eating blood being prohibited to non-Jews.
No it doesn't. There is no contradiction between these verses. One is only speaking directly to the Jewish people. There is no contradiction between non-Jews being allowed to eat blood and Jews not being allowed to eat blood. The Mosaic Law is only for Jews. If it says Jews can't eat blood, that means nothing to non-Jews, who, as we can see from Gen 9:5, can eat blood (according to the Jewish interpretation).The Bible does not contradict itself. There are many other scriptures that tell us directly we cannot eat blood. It is in the Bible. I quoted direct scriptures that say it is forbidden. I didn't even misunderstand or interpret the scriptures. Just explained them exactly as they state the command.