... if people actually did this, would you think them crazy?

I have the feeling that this isn't really a hypothetical question.

no, it's a literal question. all else the same, is bathing in blood a good way to get you a one way ticket to rusk county?

If people bathed in sheep's blood, chances are good that I would not be spending much time around them until after they had showered (good) with hot water and maybe lysol.

Then again, if my choices were hanging around Bob dba diamond or someone who bathed in sheep's blood, I'd probably say "can I watch you take a baaaaaath? and suggest they wear something red.

they're at least, mixed-up about something.

my point is. with all the metaphor in christianity pertaining to blood bathing and sacrificing and drinking jesus' blood, you guys don't find that the least bit disturbing?

so what's the difference between singing songs about bathing in the blood of the lamb and actually doing it?

The difference is that the Lamb is already slaughtered and the blood spilled.

the singing requires less cleanup.

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my point is. with all the metaphor in christianity pertaining to blood bathing and sacrificing and drinking jesus' blood

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metaphor being the key word in your question. If we were talking literal versus metaphor/symbolic, I would indeed be concerned.

I'll grant you that the emphasis on blood sacrifice in substitutionary atonement is morbid. From an Eastern Orthodox Christian perspective, it's not incorrect except in emphasis. That is, there is room to talk about substitutionary atonement in our theology, but it's not the only (or main) understanding in our sotierology.

This is an aspect of militant athiesm I find curious (not to paint you with that brush, but I've seen the same tendency in Hitchens, despite his history with EOC), to presume that one's subjective experience with Christianity is representative and complete. An analogue would be if someone presumed the electoral college was central to American government and dismissed the while enterprise because of it.

petro... yes, you are right. singing about drinking and bathing in blood is not exactly doing it. but ultimately, does that really matter?

The Eucharistic Body and Blood of Jesus is as real as it can be. I don't have a problem with consuming them at each and every Mass. Man condemned himself by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil; Man is redeemed by eating the fruit of the tree of salvation, or the cross.

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the singing requires less cleanup.

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I laughed.

@Thaddeus73: But what about Genesis 9:4?

Commando - Genesis 9:4 was the Old Covenant that was done away with when Jesus gave us all the New Covenant. That verse, however, is precisely why so many of Jesus' believers walked away from Him in John 6:66. They understood Him perfectly that they had to physically eat the flesh of the Son of Man and to physically drink His blood in order to have eternal life (John 6:54), and for Him to abide in us, and for us to abide in him (John 6:56. It is why the Romans accused Christians of being cannibals. It was prefigured by both the Passover and the manna from heaven. Jesus explained it all at The Last Supper, the final old Passover meal, where he changed wine into his blood, & that would forgive sins.

I think anybody who does that just to get to Rusk County is crazy.

Even someone who doesn't follow the Law must follow the admonitions of the Acts Council of Jerusalem. No sexual immorality, idolatry, eating strangled animals or ingesting blood.

It seems odd for these earliest of Christians to prohibit drinking blood if they were doing ot every week durong Communion

The blood of animals is not the blood of Jesus...

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I think anybody who does that just to get to Rusk County is crazy.

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lol prim... i'm assuming you're aware that there's a mental infirmary in rusk, which makes what you said even funnier. but i guess i shouldn't assume people not from east tx would know about it.

Duh!!

Hadn't thought about that place in years. Forgot it was there.

OP, Not anymore than asking for prayers, if I believed prayers were fos

I got a buddy out of the mental institution on South Presa here in SA...Everybody that could talk asked me for a cigarette. I don't think I could work in a place like that for long. God bless the people who do..