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Podcast: Wrestling with Theology
Episode: Moment of Meditation: No Blood (Genesis 9:4)
Description: But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. Genesis 9:4
Your life is in your blood. Without blood, nothing in your body works properly.
When God allowed us to eat meat, He commanded that we drain the blood completely from the animal. Blood is the central focus of every sacrifice: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life” (Leviticus 17:11). God prepared the sacr...