Communion - again

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In a message dated 11/17/98 11:49:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
grgaud@sprint.ca writes:

<< >> GR
 >> just because I stuck up for Christians about the
 >> cannibalism thing... which I finally understood and then
 immidiately
 >> proceeded to acknowledge you were right. I took me a while to get
 it,
 >> so you can call me dumb if you want to, but please don't refer to
 me
 >> as a Christian. ;o)
 >
 >Tim
 >Just to revisit the communion issue once again. Yahweh seemed to have
 >some definite ideas about the consumption of blood - any blood.
 >
 >Leviticus 17 (NIV)
 >
 >10
 >Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood--I
 >will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him
 >off from his people.
 <SNIP>
 >This seems to proscribe the consumption of blood and one would have
 to
 >wonder why Yahweh would allow the continued consumption of his son's
 >blood - whether symbolic or transubstantiated- for 2000 years in
 >worship services.
 
 
 [grgaud]
 Hey! Wait a minute here! Are you suggesting there are contradictions
 in the Bible? ;o)
 
 Sounds like good fodder against inerrancy; but I'll bet there's at
 least one inerrantist on this list who can explain (away) this
 "apparent" contradiction.
 
 Rick
 
 P.S.     Good quote from Porphyry!
 
  >>
Charlie

Isn't that whole Abrogation thread about dispensationalism allowing the New
Testament to negate Old Testament laws?  That would presumably include these
laws.

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