Aunty Jane
Well-Known Member
"Well documented" by whom?It's a well-documented case, the woman chose not to have a transfusion and died. As for other procedures and blood substitutes, why didn't she choose to have one of them, or even have blood donated by a fellow JW?
I seriously hate addressing ignorance....the reason why we refuse blood has nothing to do with medicine...it is for us breaking God's law on the sanctity of blood. God's people were forbidden to consume any kind of blood under penalty of death. That makes it serious to us. It is not something we impose on others because it is a conscience decision to stick with God's law, regardless of the outcome. Better to die faithful than to break God's law and lose your everlasting life. (Matthew 16:26)
Leviticus 17 :10, 14...
"And anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats the blood, and will cut him off from among his people. . . . . “For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off."
And if you think a transfusion is not "eating" blood, consider how a person is "fed" when they cannot eat by mouth......they are fed intravenously.
If you don't know what you're talking about, then please do not make your judgmental remarks on what you read in a newspaper or on some sensationalized report on the nightly news.
If you think everyone who receives a blood transfusion lives, then think again.....sometimes, no matter how much blood they receive, people will die. Taking someone else's blood into your body sets up an immune response because our bodies are designed to reject foreign tissue. You are receiving someone else's DNA...consider for a moment what that means.
Please watch the video and educate yourself.