For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Lev 17:11 (ESV)
"The blood is the life!"- Bram Stoker, Dracula
Early yesterday morning, I went to visit the
A couple of weekends ago, Twilight opened to huge crowds; the books upon which the movie is based are flying off of the shelves. We’ve had Dracula, Lestat, Angel, Buffy (who, though technically a vampire slayer, was ridiculously attracted to those she was supposed to kill). While we can tell ourselves we like them because they are generally portrayed as powerful, sensual beings that will live eternally (barring an accidental sunburn or misplaced fence picket), I think the real fascination is more elemental.
It’s the blood.
Even the undead need life’s blood to sustain them. There is power in the blood; there is life in the blood – eternal life.
Yes, in that one thing the vampire literature gets it right. The shed blood – the right blood – has the power to cleanse from sin.
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Heb 9:22 (ESV)
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins;
and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains,
lose all their guilty stains;
and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
-William Cowper
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