Drinking blood?

Question

I'm doing a report on this, so I'd like to see what people will say.

If vampirism back then was anything like modern vampirism today (pretty much people who get REALLY sick if they don't drink blood, and a few side effects to light and stuff), would you get sent to hell for drinking blood, if it prevented you from getting sick, gave you energy, and made you feel a whole lot better, and calmed down cravings, if you were a Cathlioc, or Christan(sp)?

Sorry if that's kinda hard to understand, but I would really like to hear serious opinions.

I also ment to add, this is Human blood.

Answer 1

People make and eat blood sausage, so it's not as gross a topic as you might imagine.

Answer 2

There is no disease that causes a person to need to drink human blood. There have been various theories that "vampires" might have suffered from extreme anemea and tried getting iron from drinking blood, but I'm not at all sure that would even work, it certainly doesn't require human blood, and it doesn't cause light sensitivity and other "vampirelike" symptoms. These sorts of theories are most often put forward by non-academics that know very little about what they are talking about.

Answer 3

When Noah and his family exited the ark, they were instructed for the first time that they could eat animal flesh. However they were not to eat the blood, out of respect for the life of the animal.
Gen. 9:3, 4: “Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you. Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat.”
In early Christian times, the apostles re-stated this as a reminder. Acts 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!”
There are many diseases that people can contract from ingesting blood, besides the fact that it would displease God. I haven't done research on this particular disease you are referring to, but in this day and age there are many alternative treatments for conditions where blood transfusions used to be considered necessary. There are probably other ways of getting the nutrients they need.
Of course, I have learned that the Bible does not teach hellfire as a punishment...but that would be another question!

Answer 4

My nutrition professor told our class about "blood shakes" which are given to severely anemic starving children in third world countries. So I understand what you mean about people being sick otherwise, but the blood in the shakes came from animals which were killed for meat anyway.

I wouldn't say only vegetarians are going to heaven, so I doubt those people are bound for hell for that. I think the status of their eternal soul would only be in question if they're killing people for the blood.

Answer 5

Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

This tells us exactly why these laws dealing with the eating of blood were important, "The life of the flesh is in the blood:" The soul of all flesh is in its blood. Only the blood can make atonement for the soul for sin. Back in Moses day, it was the blood of animals that made atonement on a annual basis; then Jesus Christ came and made the final atonement with His blood Col 2, to atone for sin for one and all times. Christ's blood is the only atonement now, and His precious blood was shed for all those that believe and come to Him in repentance under His blood.

Lev 17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

God did not want the practices of heathen pagan worship to even enter into the cities and camps of the children of Israel, when they had entered into the promise land.

Lev 17:13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

Suppose to bleed out the animal before you eat it.

Lev 17:14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

This law required that all animals that they did eat would be properly bled before being prepared to eat as food. This would stop the putrefying the meat before it was eaten.

Answer 6

I heard that a very, very small percentage of people need to drink blood. That is the truth, their not vampyres just have a physical sickness

Answer 7

one time I sweat blood. it really freaked out those 12 dudes that followed me