Human Life in Forbidden Meat
In the previous article entitled Forbidden Meat , it 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) 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 stat...