Responses (1)
▪ Christians are commanded to ‘abstain from blood’ (Acts 15:28, 29) There the eating of blood is equated with idolatry and fornication, things that we should not want to engage in.
▪ Animal flesh may be eaten, but not the blood. (Gen. 9:3, 4; Acts 15:19, 20; compare Leviticus 17:13-16.) Similarly, any food to which whole blood or even some blood fraction has been added should not be eaten.
▪ Blood transfusion is really the same as eating blood. (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly into his veins?