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Why do Jehovah's Witnesses accept organ transplants, but not blood transfusions?

I don't understand the difference. Can someone please enlighten me? People talk about side effects, and catching diseases, but in Australia, that risk is less than one in a million, as blood is so carefully screened. Don't organs contain blood? Or is it OK to have a certain amount?

Do the rules also mean that you can't eat 'rare' steak?

While the Bible directly prohibits the transfusion of blood, it says nothing about transplanting organs. (Acts 15:29)

Organs for transplant do contain a very small amount of blood, the same as the meat that we eat. But a reasonable attempt has been made to remove as much blood as possible.

Of course, marrow used in human marrow transplants is from live donors, and the withdrawn marrow may have some blood with it. Hence, the Christian would have to resolve for himself whether鈥攖o him鈥攖he bone-marrow graft would amount to simple flesh or would be unbled tissue. Additionally, since a marrow graft is a form of transplant, the Scriptural aspects of human organ transplants should be considered. See 鈥淨uestions From Readers鈥?in our issue of March 15, 1980. Finally, writing in Harrison鈥檚 Principles of Internal Medicine (Update I, 1981, page 138), Dr. D. E. Thomas observes that 鈥渧irtually all marrow transplant recipients will require platelet transfusions鈥?and many are given 鈥減acked red blood cells.鈥?So the Christian should consider what additional issues he would have to face if he submitted to a marrow transplant.鈥擯roverbs 22:3.

Though a personal decision has to be made on this matter, the Bible鈥檚 comments about blood and marrow should help the individual to decide.

Sorry for the cut and paste

The Bible specifically forbids the use of blood.
(Acts 15:28-29) 28聽For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to YOU, except these necessary things, 29聽to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If YOU carefully keep yourselves from these things, YOU will prosper. Good health to YOU!鈥?br>
There is only one way approved by God to treat blood.

(Leviticus 17:13-16) 13聽鈥溾€楢s for any man of the sons of Israel or some alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst who in hunting catches a wild beast or a fowl that may be eaten, he must in that case pour its blood out and cover it with dust. 14聽For the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood by the soul in it. Consequently I said to the sons of Israel: 鈥淵OU must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh, because the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it will be cut off.鈥?15聽As for any soul that eats a body [already] dead or something torn by a wild beast, whether a native or an alien resident, he must in that case wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening; and he must be clean. 16聽But if he will not wash them and will not bathe his flesh, he must then answer for his error.鈥欌€?/div>

  • 2 weeks ago

Think of it this way....when you kill a deer..you bleed it.....then you eat the meat....but not the blood.
WHY ?
Because Jehovah says the blood belongs to him. So we pour it on the ground as he asks and we do not take it into our bodies.
But there is no place that says we cannot take organs.
It is a matter of conscience and some would not do it...but some do...And no one is to judge them.
THESE THINGS ARE WHAT JEHOVAH SAYs...WE SIMPLY DISCUSS THEM IN THE WATCHTOWER...BUT "ALL" THE MATERIAL FROM THE WATCHTOWER IS TAKEN STRAIGHT FROM THE BIBLE. We handle it on a basis of topic...and record what the bible says on the topic in the Watchtower.


we are not ruled by a man or by the rules of a man or men from the Watchtower Society...all you ex Jehovah's Witnesses out there know this..
You are so jealous that we are still in the truth and you are thrown out that you slander and libel us all day long.
It is eating you up...and that's where the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be because you are not like us..you have been rejected.

Jehovah God will accept you if you repent and stop sinning. Can you do that?
Will you go to the Kingdom Hall and really listen this time?
You know the way back to salvation.
Get started today......make the necessary changes...quit the drugs, the sex outside of marriage....the smoking...the cursing, lying, stealing, cheating, etc.
Start living a clean moral life and make the effort to start by attending the meetings....It's up to you. It will take about a year to be reinstated.......it is worth it.....

JOB 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

I didn't realize they did; I'm curious to see what some JWs say, in any case.

Blood is dirty. The bible says no blood products.

flawed theology supported by a haretic bible

I don't eat rare meat.....and the rules that I go by for that is MINE.......the appearance of bloody meat sickens me!

They now call it a 'conscience matter' to accept organ donations..still the operation must be performed blood free and there web- site reckons there is over 90,000 doctors on the list willing to perform these operations blood free.
Lets all hope and pray that one day they will change their stance on blood transfusions as too many children have been sacrificed as a result of their mis-interpretation of Acts15:20

Because they are ruled by the Watchtower Society and they obey the rules

I hear one governing body member's relative needed an organ transplant, go figure

Hi, I'm Saint Nearly and I'm holy, and I say it's all good. Blood and organs and all, as long as they're fresh and compatible.

i did not know that they accepted organ transplants, but if they do, i guess that's hypocrisy for you.

It is their organization who tells them what they can do and what they cannot do. It is really sad

I think it's because they are so anxious to see their creator. Well, let them be. :)

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