Is Blood The Evidence Of A Christian God?

[night912]

I qualified it as you live to a ripe old age. They're causes of death by old age. I would agree that it would be abnormal if you went before your time due to early heart attack, stroke, or cancer. Or accident, disease, virus, etc.

There's no difference.

 

[tas8831]

Why don't you explain why it sounds insane to you? Maybe you're insane haha.

Ok -

"No, a fetus or infant both have sin."

insane.

 

[Kelly of the Phoenix]

The Bible tells us that after death, the true believers will have a be resurrected and have new flesh and bone. Wow. This is like the new, perfect spiritual body that Jesus had and I suppose Adam and Eve before their sin.

If Jesus has a new body, then why does he have a few wounds from the last one?

The evidence in the Bible as the Apostles and those who knew Jesus were able to examine his body and wounds

But why have any if he has a new body?
And why just a few holes? He was tortured and should look like hamburger meat.

I propose they did not have blood.

That doesn’t work.

AFAIK, the three causes of natural death are heart attack, stroke, and cancer

Skipped a few.

The Bible explicitly states God wanted those that had to do with blood.

So does Dracula.

ETA: Why do fish or chipmunks have blood? Is it because they have bones?

Sharks have blood. Their skeletons are cartilage. Bugs have blood and no bones.

 

[Ebionite]

And why just a few holes? He was tortured and should look like hamburger meat.

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith YHWH of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Zechariah 13:6-7

And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
Mark 14:27

 

[joelr]

I may not know enough about blood, but it seems to me that it was important to God of the Bible as he wanted blood sacrifices. We know that blood is life, but doesn't that mean it is also death? We love our blood, so we want to keep it positive.

How could this be evidence of any one god when sacrifices of animal and even human have been large parts of all religions going back to the earliest civilizations? What it really suggests is that each culture built their myths on other cultures myths, now called religious synchretism. All these ancient religions worshipping fake gods who prophets said needed sacrifices then the god of Israel shows up and is actually a real warrior deity who actually does require sacrifices?

Animal sacrifice - Wikipedia

Ancient Egypt was at the forefront of domestication, and some of the earliest archeological evidence suggesting animal sacrifice comes from Egypt.

By the end of Copper Age in 3000 BC, animal sacrifice had become a common practice across many cultures, and appeared to have become more generally restricted to domestic livestock. At Gath, archeological evidence indicates that the Canaanites imported sacrificial sheep and goats from Egypt rather than selecting from their own livestock.[5] At the Monte d'Accoddi in Sardinia, one of the earliest known sacred centers in Europe, evidence of the sacrifice of sheep, cattle and swine has been uncovered by excavations, and it is indicated that ritual sacrifice may have been common across Italy around 3000 BC and afterwards.[6] At the Minoan settlement of Phaistos in ancient Crete, excavations have revealed basins for animal sacrifice dating to the period 2000 to 1700 BC

The most potent offering in Ancient Roman religion was animal sacrifice, typically of domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Each was the best specimen of its kind, cleansed, clad in sacrificial regalia and garlanded; the horns of oxen might be gilded. Sacrifice sought the harmonisation of the earthly and divine, so the victim must seem willing to offer its own life on behalf of the community; it must remain calm and be quickly and cleanly dispatched.[20]

Sacrifice to deities of the heavens (di superi, "gods above") was performed in daylight, and under the public gaze. Deities of the upper heavens required white, infertile victims of their own sex: Juno a white heifer (possibly a white cow); Jupiter a white, castrated ox (bos mas) for the annual oath-taking by the consuls. Di superi with strong connections to the earth, such as Mars, Janus, Neptune and various genii – including the Emperor's – were offered fertile victims