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).

OUR OWN "WITNESS BEARER" BLOOD, IS JUDGED, AND ATONES FOR 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 ON BLOOD ALSO CUTS ONE OFF FROM ETERNAL LIFE.
In cases of humans receiving transfusions today, the blood from one human or humans transfused into other human bodies: This act cuts them off from God for the reason stated by Him, "because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it" (meaning their prayers are cut off also).

Whether blood contamination is transfused (ingested) 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", and is against the unchangeable law of the Giver of all life, God. (See Lev 17:11 above).

The "eating" of the blood of others in this way has also proven to be a way of ruining physical lives. Contempt for this law from God is manifest through such transmitted perversions as the deadly A.I.D.S. virus, SYPHILIS, etc. It is also manifest in other diseases such as MALARIA, HEPATITIS etc. All these are by means of blood transfusions. In addition, using the internal organs of others for transplants has proven to be another identifiable means by which such diseases are being transmitted.

There are of course other alternatives, such as the plasma expander Saline. The mortality rate among those who have blood transfusions has been around 50%, many of these by circulatory overload and blood group incompatibility. Blood taken orally, from the flesh of animals, violates God's law. HOW MUCH MORE SO WHEN BLOOD FROM A HUMAN IS TRANSFUSED ("eaten" by ingestion) INTO ANOTHER HUMAN, BY A HUMAN? HOW CAN ATONEMENT FOR SUCH INDIVIDUALS BE MADE? "For there are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three are in agreement." (1 John 5:7). Finally, such offenders will stand before the awesome presence and judgement of God.

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

25/8/89.