THE PENALTY.
"The soul of the flesh is in the blood...'No soul of you should eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst should eat blood.' For the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood by the soul in it. Consequently I said to the sons of Israel: "You must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh, because the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it will be cut off". (Lev 17:11,12,14).

THE FINAL ADMONITION FROM THE APOSTLES.
"The Holy Spirit and we ourselves have favoured adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from…blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper." (Acts 15:28,29).

FREEDOM FROM THE PERSONAL BLOODGUILT OF OTHERS.
"Hence I call you to witness this very day that I am clean from the blood of all men, for I have not held back from telling you all the counsel of God" (Acts 20:26,27) (including and regarding blood). "My decision is not to trouble those from the nations who are turning to God, but to write them to abstain...from blood". (Acts 15:19,20).

FOR THE ATONEMENT OF OUR SINS.
"The soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it". (Lev 17:11).

VIOLATION OF GOD'S LAW TO PRESERVE PRESENT LIFE, LEADS TO LOSS OF ETERNAL LIFE.
In cases of humans receiving transfusions of blood from one human or humans into other human bodies, that human soul is cut off from God, for the reason stated by Him: "…because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it". (Lev 17:11).

Whether blood contamination is transfused (ingested) into one through the skin using an hypodermic needle, or by hand through the mouth, it reaches the same blood stream, the stomach, and other parts of the body. It is in this way "eaten". (See Lev Ch.17 above).

The "eating" of the blood of others has proved to be a devastating way of ruining physical lives, as has the result of such physical perversions leading to the deadly A.I.D.S. virus, transmitted along with other diseases such as SYPHILIS, MALARIA and HEPATITIS etc, by means of transfusions. In addition, using the organs of others for transplants has also proved to be another means by which these diseases are transmitted.

There are of course alternatives, such as the plasma expander Saline. But the mortality rate among those who have blood transfusions has been around 50%, many of these due to circulatory overload and blood group incompatibility. Finally, blood taken orally from the flesh of animals violates God's law. How much more so when transfused from one human to another?

INGESTION: To put in, thrust in. To introduce (ailment) into the stomach (or mouth). (Oxford Dictionary).

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