Cofty points out that since God gave permission to the
Gentiles to eat animals found dead (unbled!) Det 14:21, God also established by doing so
that the blood of such dead animals is not sacred because had it been sacred
it could not be eaten along with the flesh by anyone including Gentiles without
violating God’s law to mankind (Gen 9:4)
In Nu 15:31, the penalty for deliberately violating any
command stated in the law was death, but even if someone could be executed for
eating animals found dead (unbled) for deliberately doing so, the person would
be executed for despising God’s command; that would be the charge against such
person and that would be the reason for his guilt and execution –despising God’s
command; eating an animal found dead (unbled) would not be the reason for such
person’s execution because there is no penalty stated in the law for doing so
except the resulting state of ceremonial uncleanness –but not death or any other penalty. Albeit
the act of a Jew eating an animal found dead did not incur the death penalty
and that is the point –according to cofty.
(Genesis
9:4) 4 "Only
flesh with its life—its blood—you must not eat. . .” is God’s command
to mankind, so by God giving Gentiles permission to eat an animal found dead
(unbled) as he seemingly does does in Deut 14:21, a distinction is made between the blood of a
slaughtered animal that is going to be
eaten (and it is forbidden for such animal to be eaten by anyone whatsoever without being bled) and the blood of an animal found
dead which is allowed to be eaten by Gentiles. There is a distinction
between both sorts of blood.
Cofty appears to say
that when a person eats a found dead unbled animal, according to Gen 9:4 such
person is also eating the blood of such animal, but unlike Gen9:4 the life of
such dead unbled animal is not in the blood with the carcass (that is to say God does not require such blood to be poured out) and
that is why God allows such blood to be eaten with the carcass. And now cofty
says that technically it would be as if the blood of the dead animal is
eaten by itself, and by derivative: ”
Blood was sacred insofar as it
represented a life that had been taken by a human.” –as cofty argues in his OP.
But is that
the way Jehovah sees it? Can a worshiper of Jehovah consume blood taken from live
humans or from live animals? -to
drink a couple of glasses of blood or
more from a live cow or from a live human; it sounds shocking but is it a sin considering cofty's theory?
That is the question that needs to be answered.
