I was going to stay away from this nonsense, but I can't resist...
Currently, I'm learning Malachi where there is blood sacrifice from the ancient times.
Are these sacrifices still required?
I was under the impression that they are not. If not, does that mean that your premise, theologically, is at best moot?
If these sacrifices are still required, then your beliefs are no better than Santeria.
From a theological standpoint, apparently.
Did you bother to learn one thing about actual blood? What it does, what it is made of, etc.?
It seems not.
So far, if we live to a ripe, old age, then we die of conditions related to blood.
Some do.
Most do not.
Heart disease is in the top 3. That has to do with the health of the heart, not blood.
Cancer is not blood. There ARE cancers OF the blood, but that is only a portion of all cancers.
Stroke is caused by either a blood clot OR vascular problems. The only cause listed that is directly related to blood is septicemia, down at #10.
Your thesis on the verge of total collapse.
If you get a virus and die, then that isn't a normal condition. Not everyone will get the virus (unless contagious type which the insurance won't pay due to act of God clause).
Insurance won't pay for death due to infectious disease?
By the way, Dr. Kildare, viruses ARE contagious. You said you have a degree in what was it? Computer science or something? it shows.
That's evidence for God, too. Called an act of God by insurance cos.
I doubt it.
We know blood is life. That's a fact.
Unless you do not have blood - tag has pointed out the flaws in that line of 'reasoning.'
What I am saying is blood is the cause of our natural deaths, too.
Say it all you want - it is not all-encompassing.
That is, it is not so.
We weren't supposed to die before sin, remember.
No, I don't remember that. How crazy - can you imagine how many starving people there would be if there had never been any death?
It is almost as if the whole original sin thing is just a crazy story to help make the simple folk stay in line...
I think it means donating blood regularly is good. One's body will replenish the blood through their marrow which I think was our biology friend's point. I just started on a aspirin regiment due high blood pressure and it has helped a lot. I feel much better.
So you are countermanding God's curse of death via blood? SINNER!
Kidding aside - this is a gem:
"One's body will replenish the blood through their
marrow which I think was our biology friend's point. "
On any given day, your bone marrow makes about 200 million new red blood cells a day.
And on any given day, roughly the same number of "old" red blood cells are phagocytized (eaten) by macrophages in your liver and elsewhere.
And by "old", I mean on average 120 days.
It is amazing what one learns in freshman biology.
Or on the internet. If one can get their head out of collections of ancient middle eastern tales long enough to do so.