JWs and blood transfusions?

Children of Jehovah's Withnesses sometimes die because their parents religious beliefs are against allowing people to have blood transfusions. But what if it's nothing more than a test from God? To see if you'd place your own child, whom you are fully responsible for, before God? To see if you love the life of your child over your own desire to presumably please God? Perhaps God presents these situations as a test of love?

Grey Tower's right, if Jehovah's Withnesses accept that blood transfusions are banned by God then it really does appear as though God has used a form emotional blackmail and should be regarded as evil.

JWs provide the best of care for their children. There are alternatives to blood transfusions that JWs take advantage of. Blood transfusion are not an option because of what the Bible says at Acts 15:29 to "abstain from blood."

I find it odd that many people are down on JWs' refusal to allow their children to be administered a blood transfusion. A number of them support a woman's right to have her unborn baby murdered by abortion. In this country, how many children die because they did not receive blood as opposed to those who were murdered by abortion?

And another thing: What about the parents who kill their children slowly by way of second-hand smoke from tobacco products? In my state, a bill was recently passed into law prohibiting adults from smoking in a car where children are passengers.

How does God view that?

There was just such a test in the Bible. God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son and Abraham's faith was such that he reckoned God could resurrect the boy, so he went ahead up to the point of raising the knife. Then God stopped him and provided a ram instead. There has only been one time when God required such a sacrifice - that of his own beloved Son, Jesus Christ. The Abraham event was a prophetic shadow of that. It would be the height of presumptousness for JWs, or any other people, to imagine God was calling them to do such a thing. There's a biblical reason for that:

In the Bible blood is the symbol of life and, as life is a gift from God and is sacred, so human life is to be viewed as sacred. That is why murderers had to be put to death. Even animals that take a human life will have to answer to God for that (Genesis 9:5-9). That is why David poured on the ground water that his friends had risked their lives to acquire for him to drink. That was a symbolic gesture. Unfortunately, the JWs have elevated the symbol for life (blood) above the thing blood symbolizes (life). They've got it the wrong way around! They should be willing to use their own blood that their children might live yet they refuse to donate a pint of blood to the transfusion services! God has never asked them to sacrifice their children; that command came from the Watchtower Society leaders in 1950. Yet today they have moved their bloodied goalpoasts so far apart JWs can now have every fraction of blood available in treatments, just so long as they are not all put together in the one 'skin' of whole blood! God would never be so illogical.

jw's are unaware that they belong to a freemasonic organisation and therefore worship a freemasonic god

problem is this god like all toher flase gods requires sacrifices.

Now freemasons are too important to offer themselves as sacrifce (geroge washington for example)
therefore they need to convicne other people to ojin lesser organisations which the control.
These people then unwittingly act as a living battery keeping the freemasonic god supplied with sacrifies

idea is with 7 millino JW's around the world, someone somewhere is having a dilema right now as to whether or not to extinguish their lives by refusing treatment

the watchtower tells jw's that there are many other products available, this is a lie, the fremasons want these people to sacrifice their lives for jabulon, no other product is available

kind of reminds me of the wickerman

A 鈥淐ircular of Information鈥?prepared by three U.S. blood agencies states on its first page: 鈥淲ARNING: Because whole blood and blood components are made from human blood, they may carry a risk of transmitting infectious agents, eg, viruses. Careful donor selection and available laboratory tests do not eliminate the hazard.鈥?br>
Regarding a Canadian study, the Glove and Mail newspaper reported that thousands of blood transfusions involved near-misses be cause of 鈥渃ollecting blood samples from the wrong patient, mislabelling samples and requesting blood for the wrong patient.鈥? Such mistakes cost the lives of at least 441 people in the United States between 1995 and 2001.

No wonder Brian McClelland, director Edinburgh and Scotland Blood Transfusion Service, asks doctors to 鈥渞emember that a transfusion is a transpland and therefore not a trivial decision.鈥? He suggests that doctors ponder the question,鈥滻F THIS WAS MYSELF OR MY CHILD, WOULD I AGREE TO THE TRANSFUSION?鈥? More than a few health-care workers express themselves as did/one hematologist, 鈥淲e transfusion-medicine specialists do not like to get or to give blood.鈥? If this is the feeling among some well-trained individuals in the medical community, how should patients feel.?

Many doctors, would agree with medical director Dr. Michael Rose, who says: 鈥淎ny patient who receives bloodless medicine is, in essence, the recipient of the highest quality surgery that is possible.鈥? The highest quality of medical care--is that not what you would want?

After Jesus laid down his life as the perfect atoning sacrifice for sin, there was no longer any need for anyone to sacrifice anything to prove they loved God. God does not require our sacrifices. To suggest that refusing your child a blood transfusion is a test from God is not Biblical. Nowhere in the Bible does is say that parents have an obligation to refuse their children life-saving treatment. To suggest that allowing a blood transfusion means you place your own child before God is nothing short of emotional blackmail. To claim that do so means you love the life of your child more than you love God is downright wicked.

The claim that accepting a blood transfusion is the same as eating blood is to completely misinterpret scripture. The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses have made so many changes to their rules about blood components and what is or is not acceptable that they have lost all credibility.

It is my heartfelt prayer that you are not in a situation where your child is in need of a blood transfusion. If you are, then please realise that God does not test individuals by insisting they stand back and watch a child die just because an organisation says it is wrong to have a blood transfusion. God does not want sacrifice - yours or your child's.

Again the JW's get it wrong. they take this from old testament that they are not to eat blood of any animal. It had to do with the Jews and their sacrifices. This was also the law of the Jews. It was also the law, which has been fulfilled. They will quote you many verses and if you read all around and really study them you will find they are all wet. It's just another one of their attempts at interpreting the bible and getting it wrong as they do so many things. They believe that the soul is in the blood. But what to they care, when the body dies they say that the soul also dies. So what could make any difference. It's just plain stupid. Brainwashed by the "Almighty Watchtower"...

They will believe anything the "Almighty Watchtower" tells them. They are not allowed to think independently.

1983 "Avoid Independent Thinking .. How is such independent thinking manifested? A common way is by questioning the counsel that is provided by God's visible organization." {WT Jan 15 1983 22}

In the world, there is a tendency to reject
leadership. As one lecturer said: ;The rising
education level has improved the talent pool such
that followers have become so critical that they are
almost impossible to lead. But a spirit of
independent thinking does not prevail in Gods
organization, and we have sound reasons for
confidence in the men taking the lead among us.
The Watchtower, September 15, 1989, p. 23

See they can't think on their own, even the Watchtower say so!!!

To: LineDancer,
I don't want to upset you as I enjoy reading your views but I do disagree with them. I do not believe that all JW's treat thier childen with the upmost of care. I 'm not going to get into that now, but I too believe in and support the "Right to life" and I don't like smokers around my kids. We do agree on that. This blood issue is close to me as I have seen many live due to blood given and they are good christian people and have devoted thier lives to christ. Eating blood is one thing and it's another to have blood transfused into the body. When a hunter kills his prey, he is to pour out the blood onto the ground and bury it. This is what is taught today in many hunting classes as it stops the blood from pooling in the carcus and spoiling the meat. God knew this at the time and directed the jews to do the same thing. Don't eat the blood because it will make you sick as it starts turning bad pretty quick once the animal is killed. god also told us not to eat live blood as that would kill the animal or human.

thats totally wrong,

im muslim and we do share some of the strictliness with the jehova witnesses people
but all the strictliness goes when ur own life is at risk.... in islam ur even alloud to pretend to denounce islam if ur life is at risk....ur allowed to eat pig meat if ur life is at risk... ur allowed to drink wine if ur life is at risk without it....

god doesnt want us to die, because our bodies are a gift from him to our souls...

if they have problems with contaminated blood whatever, they could do blood transfusion from a jehova witness too?!!!

thats what i would do, because my blood is free of alcohol and stuff, and i wouldnt like stuff i never drank in my blood lol

peace

It's silly from our point of view but for a Johovas Witness it's important to stick to their beliefs.

I choose not to mess with religion as each to there own and I don't wish to offend anyone.

But preach to me and I'll bite ur F&*$ing head off!

"When under trial, let no one say: 鈥淚 am being tried by God.鈥?For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone."

James 1:12

and what about the child why should they die because of some stupid religious belief there is no such thing as your soul when you die that is it

well, my question then is if they dont believe in that do they believe in hand on healing done in the Name of Jesus

Their blood policy is cruel

i dont know if your theory is correct, but i do know that it clearly says in the bible that we are not to EAT blood, it doesnt say in there anywhere that we may not take blood transfusions, for God made it so we could help each other......and i actually know people who are JW who eat rare steak--so go figure...

no! it is just a crazy notion, the only blood that matters is the blood that was shed to save us, along with the blood shed by our men to keep us free. Would you deny saving blood to a soldier, if you determined he was a JW? All that blood of man is, is the life there-of.

It's nor about god they beleive the blood is the soul and contaminating it will keep the soul from heaven.

A test of love???God is Love,not a demonic creature.
In days of old Pagans would sacrifice their children to show their faith...The JW's are no different.(Pagans)