Minucius Felix on Blood and Murder

Marcus Minucius Felix is something of an enigma, there are few clues as to when he lived, the 1913 Catholic Encyclopaedia states that it was probably between 170 and 220 AD, nor is it known where he came from and it is believed that he may have been an African like Tertullian. He is known solely now by his Octavius, a discussion held between Minucius Felix and his friends Octavius Januarius and Caecilius Natalis with the pagan Caecilius Natalis voicing the common accusations against Christians, Minucius Felix defending Christianity and Octavius acting as an adjudicator.

Minucius Felix had this to say about killing and blood:

"To us it is not lawful either to see or hear of homicide; and so much do we shrink from human blood, that we do not use the blood even of eatable animals in our food" (Octavius of Minucius Felix XXX)

It is clear that despite claims by modern "Christians" that Jehovah's Witnesses are wrong in our reading of all the verses where God forbade the use of blood and that Acts 15:29 was only created to please the Jews and ceased to have effect after the Apostles that Christians still abstained from blood as late as Minucius Felix's day.