I would like to know if it is a sin to eat the blood inside the chicken’s bone. Before I got converted I used to eat it, but after I started to doubt if it was a sin or not too, so I would like to know if it’s a sin to do that.<\/p>\n\t
“For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell<\/em>” (Acts 15:28-29).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Christians avoid blood because we are commanded not to eat it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I would like to know if it is a sin to eat the blood inside the chicken’s bone. Before I got converted I used to eat it, but after I started to doubt if it was a sin or not too, so I would like to know if it’s a sin to do that.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[768,240,241],"class_list":["post-31041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-blood","tag-diet","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13394,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/isnt-it-true-that-jesus-did-not-have-to-eat-the-passover-lamb-because-he-had-no-sin\/","url_meta":{"origin":31041,"position":0},"title":"Isn’t it true that Jesus did not have to eat the Passover lamb because he had no sin?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I recently read your\u00a0article\u00a0\"Was Jesus a\u00a0Vegetarian?\". 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