"But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood."
I see three possible explanations:
Possibility 1. Drinking blood is prohibited because of what's not happening; i.e., it's a sin of omission. In other words, it's wrong simply because the blood needs to be used for some other purpose. Maybe he should pour it on the ground as some shadowy type of sacrifice. I don't know. {{shrugs}} The ground cries out for our blood, so we give it animal blood instead. Something like that.
Possibility 2. Drinking blood is prohibited because of what is happening; it's a sin of comission. This is a bit more straight-forward: the act itself of imbibing blood is sinful. But I can't think of why that would be. Perhaps drinking nephesh symbolizes an attempt to obtain "life" illicitly, outside of God's provision.
Possibility 3. Both of the above.
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