Actually the law on the consumption of blood started with Noah when he was first given permission to consume flesh. This was long before the formation of the nation of Israel and the written Law.
Genesis 9:4-6 ....
"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. 5 Besides that, I will demand an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand an accounting from every living creature; and from each man I will demand an accounting for the life of his brother. 6 Anyone shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God’s image He made man." Blood and life are interchangeable. Sacred to God.
The sanctity of blood meant that it could not be consumed, no matter the method of administration. It was reinforced in the Law of Moses, (Leviticus 17:13-14) and restated again for Christians. (Acts 15:28-29)
If you as a physician, told one of your patients to abstain from alcohol or any other drug and they refrained from taking it by mouth, would it still be consuming it if it was injected straight in to their veins? Would they be "abstaining"? If a patient cannot consume food, are they not fed intravenously?
Acts 15:28-29....
"For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things: 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!"
Things strangled were not properly bled, so were not fit for consumption by God's people. Jews already knew this but the statement given to Christians was primarily for the benefit of Gentiles who were used to sacrificing to idols, consuming blood, and the meat of unbled animals. They were also used to committing immorality, so hence the directive to abstain from fornication as well.
Can I ask how much the average doctor knows about the downside of blood transfusions? How informed are they by a system that is proving every day how little it cares for its patients in comparison to how much it cares about its bottom line. The medical system as it operates in the west today is a money-hungry juggernaut. That is not to criticize the doctors who appear to be as hoodwinked as their patients when it comes to writing prescriptions. That is what medicine is today.....pills for this and pills for that, but not a real cure for what ails anyone. Anyone who threatens their profit margins will be dealt with. They have governments wrapped around their little finger so they can enforce ridiculous laws based on their false information and bogus studies.
Powerful drug companies classify medicines such as cannabis as a schedule 1 drug...right up there with heroin. Yet there are no recorded deaths from cannabis overdose. In fact there are no dangerous side effects compared to accepted pharma drugs. Opioids for example.
Now it is revealed that their motive in demonizing cannabis is not because the drug is dangerous, but because it is so beneficial that it could put many truly dangerous pharma drugs in the trash where they belong.
There is a groundswell of opposition now that the truth is out there and the real motives of the drug companies has been revealed. If Cannabis is going to be used, big pharma wants to control its efficacy and its cost. Making it hard for the average person to even get a script for its altered composition, which because it is a whole plant medicine, will reduce any beneficial effects. They will make sure that the cost will be huge for the consumer. People could grow it in their gardens for free, but the law listens to criminals who are robbing us blind.
The official studies are thin on the ground because big pharma won't conduct them, but the testimonials on a vast range of illnesses are too numerous to deny.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI4e6id6XBz7WyWJyTyEXWeTsNrfLJhDy
Another promising therapy is stem cells. An amazing discovery into how our own stem cells can heal so many problems within our bodies. All they need to do is harvest these stem cells from the patient's own body, concentrate them, and re-inject them into the problem areas to form new cartilage, new tissue and repair organs. But the medical big wigs will make it sound like 'quackery' because it is so simple and cheap, utilizing the body's own repair system, and it has the potential to replace a lot of expensive surgery and drug treatments. Profit is again the driver for downplaying this therapy, and keeping these treatments out of reach for the average person.
It appears as if the lid is being lifted on a whole range of institutions that we once trusted, but now we see how corrupt they were all along. God actually said he would do this in the end times....and its happening.
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed." (2 Peter 3:10 ESV)
"Love of money
IS the root of all evil".
Sadly, I believe that most doctors are kept in the dark as much as the public is?