Is it blasphemy to dramatize the cross using ketchup for Jesus' blood?
Yes. Dramatizing the cross with ketchup for the Lord's blood is blasphemy because the work of the cross required the God of creation Himself. That blood was divine and holy, not ordinary, and cannot be reduced to a human element like ketchup.
Les explains that a listener wrote asking whether these dramatizations of the cross, using ketchup for the Lord's blood, are almost blasphemy. Les agrees and says it is blasphemy because it took the very God of creation to do the work of the cross. That work is so far beyond human endeavor that it cannot be reconciled or dramatized by the human element. The blood was not ordinary blood; it was divine and holy, with the power within it to cleanse the whole world's sin problem. Therefore it cannot be described as ketchup or anything that might take its place.