Jehovah's Witnesses...Why do you not eat blood but eat pork?

Question

Leviticus, Chapter 11

and the pig, which does indeed have hoofs and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud and is therefore unclean for you.

Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch; they are unclean for you.

However, in the New Testament, this law was "lifted." Because of Jesus' death on the cross (and resurrection),
sacrifices were no longer needed as Jesus was the final sacrifice and faith in Him was the only way man could be pure before God. It was no longer necessary for God's people to leave by these strict rules.

Was not the eating of blood also in the old testament?

Answer 1

Under the Law. the pig was among the "unclean" animals Jews were not to eat. They were never to eat the blood from the "clean" animals. Before meat was consumed, the blood had to be drained first. Under the Law, the only use of blood was for sacrificial purposes ONLY by the priests at the temple. After the Law came to an end, pork was allowed as a food for Christians, but the blood had to be drained before the meat could be eaten.

The command for Christians to "abstain from blood" was a carry-over from what God said to Noah about blood, showing that Jehovah considered eating blood a violation then and now. Acts 15:20

Answer 2

You are right, of course, the Mosaic law covenant is no longer in effect. And of course, Christians were never under the law covenant. Does that mean that we can now eat pork and blood? Well, we can certainly eat pork. Does that mean we can eat blood? No. The law involving blood came into being long before the Mosaic law covenant. Thus, Noah was told how to handle blood when he wished to eat meat. What about the first century Christians?

Notice Acts 15:20. It very specifically commands Christians to abstain from blood.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 3

"Simply be firmly resolved not to eat the BLOOD, because the blood is the soul and you must not eat the soul with the flesh. You must not eat it. You should pour it out upon the ground as water. You must not eat it, in order that it may go well with you and your sons after you, because you will do what is right in Jehovah’s eyes." - Deuteronomy 12:23-25

"Keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from BLOOD and from things strangled and from fornication. If YOU carefully keep yourselves from these things, YOU will prosper. Good health to YOU!” - Acts 25:29

What does the pork have to do with blood?

Answer 4

i never eat both blood and pork. Isaiah 66:1-17. A true Jehovah s witness never eat pork and blood. The health laws was never abolished by Jesus Christ Matthew 5:17-20. 1 John 2:7 there is no new commandment. 3 John 1:2 ...be prospered in health. If you eat pork you are a false witnesses of Jehovah. Your God is your stomach Philippians 3:19 you eat as you please there is no temperance in you, that is indulgence of appetite. You misled people because you want them to disobey Jehovah. You are the children of the enemy of God. I John 3:4,7,& 8.