Lev.17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood:
Through Science or by your own conjecture, can you explain this?
Is it possible this is where our spirit dwells, mainly in the blood?
How could Moses have written this approximately 1490 BC?
2007-11-23 08:47:26 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
At the cellular level, blood = life, literally. So, I would suppose God knew that, told Moses something like it, and Moses wrote it down, and today you're reading it, and understanding it even better than Moses understood it. (My guess is, Moses' understanding of it was simply, if someone sheds too much of their blood, they die - a less sophisticated understanding, of course, but it does still capture the essence of what God meant.) Also, the meaning is spiritual in this way: Jesus' shed blood gives us eternal, spiritual life in heaven with God.
2007-11-23 08:55:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lev.17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood:
Through Science or by your own conjecture, can you explain this?
Sure. Blood transports oxygen to the rest of the body and keeps tissues alive. It didn't require a rocket scientist to make observations about blood and human life. Without it, you die. But I would also argue that the oxygenation of the human brain (with consciousness) is the most important indicator of life, not how the "flesh" lives.
"Is it possible this is where our spirit dwells, mainly in the blood?"
There is no such thing as the spirit. When people donate blood, does it mean they lose a part of their soul? As blood regenerates quickly, does that mean people regenerate their soul? Or better yet, some people have more blood than others -- are their souls bigger?
Blood cells have a physical purpose. As with the rest of the cells in the human body. That is all, no supernatural thing makes sense.
"How could Moses have written this approximately 1490 BC?"
So you have a date now? According to the Bible, Moses did kill people, which wouldn't exactly have been bloodless. In any case, I think consciousness is an indicator of human life for our purposes, not a mammalian transport system that can be cultivated in a lab.
2007-11-23 08:59:07 · answer #2 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It sounds like the beginning of the science of anatomy. As we later understood that blood (specifically red blood cells) supplies oxygen to all parts of the body, thus resulting in the life of the flesh (or body). Your body would not be considered animate life without blood flow. He is not wrong, this would have to be true for him to write that down physically. I suppose you could take this to a spiritual level, but honestly it is a statement supported by science and maybe should not be read into any further.
2007-11-23 09:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The contents of blood are no mystery:
Blood is a specialized bodily fluid (technically a tissue), composed of a liquid called blood plasma, and blood cells suspended within the plasma. The blood cells present in blood are red blood cells (also called RBCs or erythrocytes), white blood cells (including both leukocytes and lymphocytes) and platelets (also called thrombocytes). Plasma is predominantly water containing dissolved proteins, salts and many other substances. Plasma makes up about 55% of blood by volume. Most animals have red blood, which is bright red when oxygenated, due to hemoglobin. Some animals have different colored blood, for instance, a horseshoe crab has blue blood.
2007-11-23 09:18:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the blood is the component that delivers oxygen and nourishment to the entire body, the statement as presented in Lev. 17:11 is correct.
2007-11-23 08:53:15 · answer #5 · answered by timbers 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
has to do with the remission of sins under the law of the Old covenant.
thats why they call Jesus a river of life, the blood matters, for it was God's own blood, not mary's, and not Joseph's, that was coursing through the Lord Jesus. that is how He purchased the field with the hidden treasure (parable) and the one costly pearl.
Moses was in the presence of God on a daily basis, who knows the secrets that were revealed to him.
2007-11-23 08:54:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were those who sacrificed animals for God. Perhaps that's where this was derived from because Moses knew what happens to an animal when it looses its blood.
2007-11-23 08:56:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could he have written it? Well it's pretty simple - because believe it or not, people bled in 1490 BC just as they bleed today.
They're no denying they had knowledge of a "life blood" or liquid.
2007-11-23 08:54:34 · answer #8 · answered by nixity 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well it would be easily observed even in ancient times if I were to give you a good slash with my sword you would eventually die after a few minutes of profuse BLEEDING, so no blood=no life, the soul, or the source of life has to be in blood. Pretty ignorant but at the time it sounded reasonable.
And no you don't have to be a hematologist to figure this out, a kid with a 5th grade education could have answered this. lol
2007-11-23 08:54:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
They might have just been making the point that they realised blood was a good thing.
It does say, life of the flesh, I don't personally think that it equates to the spirit.
2007-11-23 08:51:50 · answer #10 · answered by Mancloud 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋