Acts 15:21 gives the reason for those restrictions. Moses was read in the synagogues, which were in pretty much every significant city because of the Daispora of Jews. The implication from that is that the new Christians were to avoid offending Jews. The things mentioned were things that Jews particularly could not stomach. I saw a National Geographic photo of Eskimos eating raw bloody meat. It turned my stomach. Christians among the Eskimos should not do that.
Strange as it may seem, although Jews salt meat before cooking in order to remove the blood, that only applies if the meat is going to be cooked. Raw meat, however, may be eaten without salting, although the surface blood must be rinsed off first.
Strange as it may seem, although Jews salt meat before cooking in order to remove the blood, that only applies if the meat is going to be cooked. Raw meat, however, may be eaten without salting, although the surface blood must be rinsed off first.
Where in Tanakh is the permission to eat raw meat?
As for Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim, observing [any of the] 613 [outside of the Ten Commandments and other mitzvot still in effect] and any extra-Torah mitzvot would be up to the individual goy or goyah.
I'm trying to clarify what I meant.
Strange as it may seem, although Jews salt meat before cooking in order to remove the blood, that only applies if the meat is going to be cooked. Raw meat, however, may be eaten without salting, although the surface blood must be rinsed off first.
Where in Tanakh is the permission to eat raw meat?
It appears I overlooked responding to YoY.
My response is where in Tanach does it forbid eating raw meat?
"Raw meat, however, may be eaten without salting, although the surface blood must be rinsed off first."
Yes, indeed, that does sound strange.
"My response is where in Tanach does it forbid eating raw meat?"
As you well know, Genesis 9 prohibits eating flesh with the blood, and Leviticus 17:10 is most emphatic to Israel to not eat any kind of blood. Raw meat has blood in it, especially if you have not salted it.
I have read how Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for this type of thing, but I can still hardly believe how blatant it is. To think that you would count drops of blood that might spatter accidentally into a pot of cooked soup, that you would forbid a Jew to eat chicken with milk, just in case he might confuse chicken with beef, yet you would tell a Jew: "Raw meat, however, may be eaten without salting, although the surface blood must be rinsed off first." I am flabbergasted.
"But what does Acts 15 mean to members of this website?
Do people have some insights about Acts 15?"
Acts 15:21 gives the reason for those restrictions. Moses was read in the synagogues, However, in Acts 15, James is saying, "Please, you can have some fried shrimp with your fellow Christian Jew sitting beside you, but don't munch down on a raw piece of meat with blood dripping from your mouth. If you serve that Christian Jew chicken, at least kill it by cutting its throat instead of wringing its neck. And don't be having sex with your menstruous wife. And don't waltz in with a certified idol sacrifice you bought in the heathen temple. That is just a bit too much to ask a Jew to handle to have fellowship with you." That is my paraphrase to show how I understand this passage.
Acts 15:24
"We understand that some men from here have troubled you and upset you with their teaching, but they had no such instructions from us."
sounds to me that this chapter is more of an investigation into corrupt teaching in the gentile community that was handed down in the name of the teachings in Jerusalem. It surmises that the outward is not the intent of G-d. But the inward man must become repentant and turn to the LORD for cleansing and covenant. You cannot become a child of the king just by having a circumscion. You become His when you start doing what He tells you. And I mean literally.
bye for now,
kimberly
(pray for me)