Human Life in Forbidden Meat
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)The question is important because life is presently understood to include animal life. Due to this orientation, most believers consider the forbidden "meat with blood still in it" as referring only to "any" animal meat to the technical exclusion of human meat due to ordinary expectation for preachers to believe that nobody will eat "human meat", even if "human blood" is no longer on it.
The materiality of life in the interpretation of the verse is that when it 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.
Since verse 4 does not specifically mention what kind meat, blood and life are being referred in the prohibition, it becomes necessary to review the accompanying verses in order to be sure on the thoughts of the One who spoke. The accompanying verses are as follows:
2All the animals, birds and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power. 3Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.4The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it. I forbid this because the life is in the blood. 5If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life. (Genesis 9:3-5, TEV).Immediately after verse 4, verse 5, which is very helpful in the determination of the scope of the former, whether or not animal life is impliedly intended in it, only. mentions "life" by stating human life twice, for emphasis, but without expressly mentioning any animal life, as follows:
5If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life. (Genesis 9:5, TEV).Verse 5 will be very helpful in the determination of the scope of verse 4, whether or not animal life is impliedly intended in it (verse 4). Clearly, verse 5 speaks only of human "life". It does not refer to "animal" life. It even specifically states the mode of punishment if taken by animals.
Upon the other hand, the preceding verses 2 and 3 mention animals as foods. Technically, foods have no life. They are intended to sustain human life.
2All the animals, birds and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power. 3Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.Preceding premises considered, the "life", which is stated in verse 4 , would only refer to human life to the exclusion of animal life. Otherwise, there would be a gross inconsistency of verse 4 to verses 2 and 3 and verse 5. That being so, it follows that the meat and blood, which are stated in the same verse (verse 4), would only refer to human. Therefore, the prohibition is logically "eating human meat with human blood still in it", wjic is equivalent to "sexually eating human meat" as in "oral sex". .
If one would try to interpret the word "life" as inclusive of animal life, then, for purposes of consistency, verse 2, 3 and 5 can be amended verses, at the reader's risk, as follows:
2All the birds and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power. 3Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food. (Note: animal was deleted)
5If anyone takes human and/or animal life , he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human and/or animal life. (Genesis 9:5TEV).(Note: animal was added)Therefore, without amending the verses, logically, life in verse 4 refers only to human life.
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