Is it a requirement that Christians abstain from blood?

Question

Acts 15:19 Hence my decision is not to trouble those from the nations who are turning to God, 20 but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:28 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 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 21:25 As for the believers from among the nations, we have sent out, rendering our decision that they should keep themselves from what is sacrificed to idols as well as from blood and what is strangled and from fornication.”

I'm so sorry about your husband "my Brother" my dear Sister. We will be there to welcome him back in the ressurection. Agape

Answer 1

The only blood that a christians can "use" is Jesus ´s Blood the forbidden is because if you truly believe in Jesus no matter if you are going to heaven or earth will have everlasting life if you disobey is because you don´t believe in resurrection and because of cowardy, and cowards will be destroyed (revelation 21:7)

Answer 2

At one time, the Watchtower society commanded its adherents (Jehovah's Witnesses) to stick to this scripture strictly. yet in the process the final decade or so, the Watchtower has softened its stand on blood transfusions. Now, Jehovah's Witnesses are allowed to settle for what the Watchtower calls "minor blood fractions." the place do those "minor blood fractions" come from? they arrive from DONATED BLOOD! to that end, Jehovah's Witnesses settle for blood tranfusions. yet in an attempt to skirt around Paul's command in Acts, they merely settle for blood after this is been separated into particular fractions. To make concerns greater complicated, there are some fractions they settle for and a few that they gained't. i'd additionally ask the witnesses why they permit women folk to communicate of their congregations? a million Corinthians 15:34-35 instructions women folk to be SILENT at church. this is each bit as clean as Paul's command to ABSTAIN from blood. yet for some reason, the Witnesses do no longer take heavily Paul's command for women folk to be silent. this is merely yet another occasion of the JWs choosing and selecting which parts of the Bible to take actually.

Answer 3

I don't think it is a requirement per se but it is good advice to be followed.

In I Cor, during that time the gentile world offered their best animals for offerings to their pagan gods. Paul spoke about this because the Israelite Christian would be offended if a meal consisted of meats purchased at the marketplace where they were normally sold to those for offerings to pagan gods.

It was a request that the Gentile should not do something that would offend their Jewish brothers.

I personally don't like my meat to bleed. Give me well done.

Answer 4

Is it a requirement that Christians abstain from blood?
According to these scriptures, yes
The method of killing for that time was to cut the throat and drain all the blood. I know that some christians like their steaks rare. Rare meat is not a sin if the blood is drained off.
My wife told me to quit preaching cause I started meddlin in her food. ha It is healthier to totally cook meat.

Answer 5

yes brother we are required to abstain from blood. a very dear friend of my family (also a brother) just had a very bad heart operation without blood and he lived to tell. my husband was on morphin (also a brother) and the hospital had him sign a paper and they gave him blood and three weeks later he was gone. people think that we don't take care of our family because we don't take of blood. look what happened to my dear husband of thirty five years. he did not know he was signing the paper. yes we did have the brothers down and it was to late to do anything. but I have one thing on my side a perfect judge Jehovah and Jesus Christ who will deal with them. www.watchtower.org. my husband had ms for years. that is what keeps me going, knowing that I will be able to run into his arms real soon. now I am taking care of my daughter 28 mentally handicapped and my son adam 25 with a mild cp.

Answer 6

That is speaking of blood from the sacrifices to idols.

Christians are "washed in the the Blood of the Lamb".

Answer 7

The Bible is the authority in Christian life. So yes, it is a requirement to abstain from blood. Those scriptures make it very clear.

Answer 8

Yes it is.

It's just like if you had a liver problem and your doctor told you to abstain from drinking or eating alcohol.
Would you have it intravenously put into your body and reason, "well, I'm not exactly drinking it"? If so, you are going completely against your doctors orders to preserve your life.

Answer 9

You are not to drink blood.
No blood drinking.
It was very common in the old days.
Still practiced in a part of the world.
Won't say which one.
Might offend someone.

Answer 10

I think the answer to your question would be included in here. Specifically in verses 7-13.

1 Corinthians 8

1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. 3But the man who loves God is known by God.

4So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. 5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), 6yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

7But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols? 11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.