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To: Savage Beast
You are the first to have that opinion.

While Man is supposed to be steward of this Earth (thus humans should try to be environmentally friendly and not support animal cruelty--as long as those policies are not detrimental to humans and are feasible), animals are not on the level of humans, and the Bible is pretty clear that eating animals after the Flood was acceptable. The Passover lamb was even required, and Christ probably ate lamb (as one of the kind freepers who gave an opinion stated).

The question is what constitutes blood in that verse (Acts 15:20). Is there some way to get rid of every last red blood cell, piece of hemoglobin, even blood plasma from meat?

P.S. Using the scientific (currently scientific) definition of blood, meat juices are not blood. Such juices are produced in the muscle tissue and while it serves a similar purpose to blood in transporting oxygen, it doesn't use hemoglobin, but rather myoglobin.

Another helpful freeper typed how that freeper prayed and asked God to make that freeper's food pure before eating, along with giving a useful verse in Colossians 2.

11 posted on 03/07/2007 5:52:03 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
You are mistaken; I am not the first to as that question (I didn't state an opinion). It was asked me by a very wise Hindu man, and the question did not originate with him.

You gave me considerable information, but you did not answer the question.

22 posted on 03/08/2007 5:15:59 AM PST by Savage Beast (MESSAGE TO BUSH: Free U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean NOW!!!)
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