Donna,

Thank you for responding to this, too.

Is not our blood is red when it is enriched with oxygen from the lungs, or in contact with the air when we bleed?

Would not the blood of a dead man be very horrible to encounter?

You mentioned Leviticus 17:11, "the life of the flesh is in the blood".

Considering that with:

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Clearly, was not the blood shed on Calvary, God's own blood?

Is not the life in that blood is eternal life?

So, when Death attempted to swallow up the life in that blood, as had been done with all the other lives before, was it not different this time?

Death could not swallow up that life, because it is eternal?

So, it turned completely around, and was it not then similar to?

I Corinthians 15:54c  Death is swallowed up in victory.