Showing posts with label Human life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human life. Show all posts

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Human Life in Genesis 9:4

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Life is presently understood to include animal life, which understanding is also reinforced by science. Due to this orientation, most believers consider the forbidden  "meat with blood still in it" as referring only to "any" animal meat. 

Also, the exclusion of human meat became inherent in this belief as it is ordinary for preachers to believe that nobody will eat "human meat", even if "human blood" is no longer on it. 

In the previous article entitled Prohibited Meat and Immorality, a question was asked whether not not the word "life" stated in Genesis 9:4 refers only to "human" life to the exclusion of "animal" life. For immediate reference, the verse is restated, to wit;
4The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it. I forbid this because the life is in the blood.(Genesis 9:4, TEV)
Considering the importance of each and every word in the verse in the interpretation, then let's dig deeper on the meaning of life in the statement. This is important because if "life" refers only to "human" life then correspondingly, the meat and blood being stated in the same verse would only refer to "human" or, in case, it refers to animal life then the meat and blood would refer only to animal, or to both, as the case maybe.