Horrors of Black Pudding

Blood Food

Thinking: "To be put to death for being raped - there is a Biblical law for that too - looks like double trouble, and not fair at all!"

The Bible teaches that such as black pudding is a horror, and the New Testament equals it with adultery [Acts 15; 21:25]. Granted that, Christians who eat black pudding and look down on adulterers, are they not vicious clowns - or is it central Bible content for non-Jewish Christians that no one takes seriously?

Sane humans do not need Jesus at all, he says [Mark 2:17; cf. Matthew 9:12-13]. That saying is vital an could give you a fulfilling, long and happy life, if you find the better ways of living. But till you have woken up to go for health above Jesus and his confusing maim-yourself-teachings, go for facts, and believe very little that others tell you - guys that seek to profit from you by making you a "flock sheep" to shear. Now the view that eating blood food is about as bad as adultery is central for all under the deal of gentile followers (Acts 15; 21:25):

James spoke up: "Brothers, it is my judgement that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood."

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided - all agreed - and wrote a letter, saying, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.

You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell." [cf. Acts 15:13-29 passim; 21:25].

Rubbing it in

Adultery is at least put en par with black pudding - with blood food. Speaking against adulterers while eating blood food seems unfit. And what is more, blood food is hardly ever shunned and demonised by Christians today; it is different with adultery.

Refrain from despairing sillily about how much a hearty meal that contains blood food, such as hamburgers with blood proteins in them, could enrage the God of Acts 15 and Acts 21:25. Or:

Wild men learnt, too late
Blood pudding was not to be on the plate.
Delicate home-made black pudding.

One may add that according to the Christian faith God himself decided to make blood food of his Son. Christianity even nowadays focuses on wine called blood as part of its figurative, cannibalistic ceremonialism and ritualism. The most severe flaw of such a scheme is that of using Jesus as a scapegoat - that is, to let morally depraved guys escape retributions at the expense of someone else (Jesus), who did not even want to die for non-Gentiles. He said about that much. Mind that thinking vicarious sacrifice is great and divine, is not a mark of good and sound moral. Anyway, the scheme of God as we read of in the gospels, apparently failed, and only then then net was cast over gentiles.

"Do not back the wrong horse [American]." Which is worst, eating Wurst or adultery? Maybe you fancy it is adultery, but how can you be sure [Acts 21:25]? When God set out to drown all of mankind, he let Noah live and have drunk sex with his daughters and not get up to paradise (die). Why? God found favour with him. But there is more:

Blood in the ancient world

"Keep my words to be worthy of me," insisted Jesus and had a lamb slaughtered. You could be called to do even "greater" works [John 14;12]. Who knows?

Consider you are called to do greater works than goofing like "I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I haven't come to abolish them but to fulfill them." [Matthew 5;17-20, excerpt].

Now, the Old Testament would have removed any eater of blood food.

• "This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood." [Lev 3:16]
• "Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people. (This law amounted to a death sentence in the ancient world.)" [Lev 7:26-27]
• "Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood - I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people . . . Therefore I say to the Israelites, "None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood." [Lev 17:10, 12, 14].
• "Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it." [Lev 19:26]
• "You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord. [Deut 12:24-25]"

Observe: "It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins [Hebrews 10:4]." That outlook goes against large atonement parts of the Law of Moses [Leviticus 16 tells a completely different tale. Two goats ritually handled yearly, and one of the butcherd, were the one thing needed to save the people from their sins, it says. God instituted it. As you may have observed, there are over 120 self-contradictions in the Bible. Which will you favour?

Adultery in the ancient world

Adultery: We read that the sons of Jacob had sex with the concubines of their father. They were not prudish. They also attemped to kill a brother. Instead of revering such nasty people, listen to such as "If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has dishonoured his father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. [Leviticus 20:10-11]."

Now the Law of Moses came only after those "deeds" were done; the twelve sons of Jacob were not put to death, after all. And by the way, "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. [Leviticus 20:13]." "If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal [Leviticus 20:15]."

There is still more where these passages came from. They are opposed to modern forms of "have fun" in some circles.

Gentile take-overs

Peter had a vision on a flat roof of a house in Joppa (Jaffa). He saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air in it. He heard a voice telling three times, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."

Right then three men from Caesarea stopped at the house. The Spirit came upon them.

The apostles said, "God has granted even the Gentiles repentance." [Acts 11:5-18]

Peter's vision suggests that eating reptiles and other ritually unclean animals - Gentiles - was all right. Reptiles (and Gentiles?) were called clean and then were later killed and butchered in millions, for some nasty reasons. Why were there no pairs of yearly atonement goats to ward off the tragedies, as God had instituted for his people a long time ago as a lasting ordinance [Leviticus 16]? That side of the tale seems to be awfully overlooked.




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