“Jesus would have been breaking the law by eating blood vlad. Not two ways around it.”
No, He was not breaking the law. He, as God, could do as He wills. And you keep ignoring what I already referred to: Jesus declared all foods clean (Mk 7:19). Since He was God, His command superseded the earlier command that certain foods be regarded as unclean (Lev 11:1-8).
Also, the Old Testament dietary regulations passed away, for “These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink” (Col 2:17, 16).
And, as I mentioned earlier, the mention of not eating blood in Acts 15:20, 29 was suggested by James to keep Jews from being scandalized by the conduct of Gentile Christians. These pastoral provisions were only temporary. One, for instance, concerned abstaining from meat sacrificed to idols, yet later Paul allows eating meat sacrificed to idols as long as it doesn’t scandalize others (Rom 14:1-14, 1 Cor 8:1-13).
Also, the Old Testament specifically bans eating blood really for one reason: “The life of every creature is the blood of it; therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood.” (Lev 17:14, Deut 12:23) They could not eat animal blood because it contained the animal’s life, but there is one Person whose life you must have in you, “Christ who is your life...” (Colossians 3:4)
Your argument is mute. Jesus as a man was born under and subject to the law. Furthermore, Jesus would have been sinning if He caused the apostles to break the law by eating blood as they were also subject to the law and they most certainly were not God. If that would have been real blood as Catholics claim, Jesus would have been sinning.
>>Also, the Old Testament dietary regulations passed away, for “These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.<<
At the last supper Jesus had not yet died and arisen. Both Jesus the man and the apostles were still under the Old Testament laws.
>>These pastoral provisions were only temporary.<<
Again, mute even if so. Jesus and the apostles were all still under the Old Testament laws at the last supper.
Bottom line. If Jesus and the apostles had actually eaten real blood they would have been sinning.