it says to abstain from blood but not transfusions so as a Christian can you have a transfusion There is no verse in the Bible that says that people are to abstain from blood transfusions. It does not. The prohibition against blood transfusions is a good example of eisegesis; the taking of something out of context and expanding upon it beyond the scope of the context.
This prohibition within the JW organization has resulted in numerous "human sacrifices" performed by its members, allowing their children to die for want of a transfusion.
Love for even a family member is violated in favor of believing God is some harsh monster that insists we sacrifice children in this way.
. These problems with blood has nothing to do with the Bible.
Have you watched some of the people who are in line to give Blood. Some of them I wouldn't take A glass of water from if I was dying of thirst. I know I would not want there Blood .
The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that thousands of blood transfusions involved near-misses because 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.
Those who receive blood from another person face risks essentially similar to those undergoing an organ transplant. Immune responses tend to reject foreign tissue. In some cases, blood transfusions can actually prevent the activation of natural immune responses. Such immunosuppression leaves the patient vulnerable to postoperative infections and to viruses that had previously been inactive. It is no wonder that Professor Ian M.聽Franklin, quoted at the outset of this article, encourages clinicians to 鈥渢hink once, twice and three times before transfusing patients.鈥?br>
Peter Carolan, the senior officer of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, say: 鈥淎bsolute guarantees on blood supplies can never be given.鈥?He adds: 鈥淭here will always be new infections for which at that moment there is no test.鈥?br>
What if a new infectious agent were to appear鈥攐ne that, like AIDS, remains in an undetectable carrier state for a long time and is readily transmitted by means of blood? Speaking at a medical conference in Prague, Czech Republic, in April聽2005, Dr.聽Harvey G.聽Klein of the U.S. National Institutes of Health called that prospect sobering. He added: 鈥淭he blood component collectors would be scarcely better prepared to interdict a transfusion-transmitted epidemic than they were during the early days of AIDS.鈥?br>
Think about this if the doctor said to stop drinking or you would die, so you started injecting it thinking you would be ok , you would be dead wrong. God said don't eat Blood which means don't take it into your body, Acts 15:28,聽29 That is not in the roman catholic writtings...
It is practiced/believed by the LOVELY Jehovss's witnesses practice. Only some types of blood exchanges are allowed such as bypass for dialysis or the introduction and mixing of meds. But if you are a jehovas witness and get into a wreck and are lying on the ground dying of blood loss and your mother and father are there willing to give you their blood, you are not to get it, that is protected by law and seen it's way into courtrooms They consider a blood transfusion the same as eating blood, because blood is life.
This story infuriates me!
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As if God wants two babies w/o a mother... 4. "Taking blood into the body through mouth or veins violates God鈥檚 laws." The Jehovah鈥檚 Witnesses are perhaps best known to other Americans as people who won鈥檛 allow themselves or their children to have blood transfusions. In fact, they will go so far as to allow a loved one to die rather than accept a transfusion, as they believe transfusions are a gross violation of God鈥檚 law. They support this notion with these verses: "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood" (Gen. 9:4). "You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood" (Lev. 17:14). "For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity" (Acts 15:28, 29).
There are several problems with interpreting these verses to mean that transfusions are forbidden, not the least of which is the fact that the context is referring to animal blood, not human blood. Moreover, there is a great difference between eating blood and receiving a life-giving blood transfusion. Eating blood was wrong because it profaned the life of the animal. But for a person to willingly share his blood intravenously in order to share life with someone does not profane anything. Indeed, even ultra-Orthodox Jews, who strictly observe the Old Testament kosher laws, recognize that blood transfusions are not prohibited by the command not to eat blood.
The Witnesses must avoid other problematic passages that deal with God鈥檚 prohibition of eating blood because these passages include a prohibition against eating fat. Witnesses do not believe eating fat is wrong, and would see no problem at all with someone munching on fried pork rinds (i.e., deep-fried pieces of pig fat) or sitting down to dinner and enjoying a nice fatty cut of prime rib. But their vehement opposition to eating blood, when contrasted with their approval of eating fat, presents a serious problem for them. Why? Because Leviticus, the book they go to in order to substantiate their prohibition of eating (and receiving transfusions of) blood, contains, in the same passages, prohibitions against eating fat. Correct. Is it reasonable to believe that one can abstain from blood while having a blood transfusion?
As a Christian, is it possible to abstain from blood while at the same time have a blood transfusion? Blood transfusions are designed to prolong or save life, isn't that so. Aside from the precious ransom sacrifice of our Lord Christ Jesus and aside from God's own provision of it recorded in Leviticus 17:11-14, is there anything in scripture which would even remotely suggest that God allows humans to use blood in this fashion?
What about other scriptures that prohibit the consumption of fat? Do Jehovah's Witnesses fixate on the command regarding blood but completely ignore the prohibition on eating the fat of animals? Christians are not, nor have they ever been, under the Mosaic Law Covenant of 613 statutes and regulations. This Mosaic Law Covenant was between the nation of Israel and God alone. Thus we read at Psalm 147:19, 20:
鈥淗e is telling his word to Jacob, his regulations and his judicial decisions to Israel. He has not done that way to any other nation.鈥?
Several passages in the Christian Greek Scriptures make abundantly clear the fact that the Mosaic law was fulfilled by Christ Jesus and was consequently taken out of the way and nailed to the torture stake (cross) of Jesus. Galatians 3:10-13; Ephesians 2:14-16; Colossians 2:13, 14.
So since we are not under such law, we are not compelled to refrain from eating fat; just as we are not compelled to refrain from eating shrimp or wearing two sorts of garments or gleaning the edges of our fields (if we have one) or any of the other 613 regulations. But we are compelled to abstain from blood.
Hannah J Paul Nowhere. Drinking or eating blood is prohibited, transfusions are not. The Bible says that blood is life, a transfusion essentially gives life. Some people read and interpret Scripture as it feels right to them, and some people are just so set in what they believe -- or indoctrinated -- that there is no room for exploring any new information. Sorry, that didn't exist back then. Yeah, you won't find that in there. |
