WatchTower Society Requirement: Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions
Filed under: News | By: Daniel
Posted on: November 5, 2007 | 54 Comments
Following on from the post earlier today about the Jehovah Witness “Emma Gough” who died after refusing a blood transfusion, we had a comment from Georgia which was very long and informative about The WatchTower Society Requirement and why Jehovah Witnesses refuse blood transfusions.
Here is Georgia’s comment:
This WatchTower Society requirement that Jehovah’s Witnesses must refuse to accept any blood transfusions dates back only to 1945. Misinterpreting the Old Testament prohibition against eating animal blood as a routine food item, the WatchTower Society began teaching in 1945 that receiving a blood transfusion was “eating human blood”. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that receiving an infusion of human blood into their body’s circulatory system is scientifically the exact same thing as eating or ingesting blood into their body’s digestive system.
“A patient in the hospital maybe fed through the mouth, through the nose, or through the veins. When sugar solutions are given intravenously it is called intravenous feeding. So the hospital’s own terminology recognizes as feeding the process of putting nutrition into one’s system via the veins. Hence the attendant administering the transfusion is feeding the patient through the veins, and the patient receiving it is eating through his veins.” — The WATCHTOWER magazine, July 1, 1951.
Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that when human blood is transfused into their body’s circulatory system that the transfused human blood remains to be human blood and continues to function as human blood. Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that if blood is eaten, then the ingested blood enters the body’s digestive system, where the blood would be treated by the body exactly the same as it would treat a hotdog, a potato chip, or any other food item. Ingested blood would be completely digested and broken down into proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and waste; which are then either assimilated or excreted by the body.
The WatchTower Society uses scriptures which speak about the blood of slaughtered animals to teach Jehovah’s Witnesses that blood is “sacred” because blood is the “symbol of life”. Then, the WatchTower Society turns around and requires Jehovah’s Witnesses to sacrifice their own “life” to maintain the alleged “sacredness” of a “symbol” of the very thing they are sacrificing — their life. Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that the WatchTower doctrine on blood moronically places a higher value on the SYMBOL than it does on the THING SYMBOLIZED.
In fact, the Old Testament scriptures permitted the eating of unbled animal meat, which the Bible treats exactly the same as eating animal blood itself. In isolated occasions, when humans needed to eat unbled meat in order to sustain their own human life, the Mosaic Law permitted such, but then required the eaters to fulfill the requirements of being “unclean” for a few days. Thus, the Bible recognized that the sustaining of human life was more “sacred” than maintaining the sacredness of animal blood. To do otherwise would be doing exactly what the moronic WatchTower Society does. It would make the SYMBOL more SACRED than the THING SYMBOLIZED.
In fact, the WatchTower Society is leading Jehovah’s Witnesses to disobey GOD and violate the Holy Scriptures in one of the most serious ways possible. Because humans were created in GOD’s image, GOD considers human life sacred. A Jehovah’s Witness who sacrifices their SACRED LIFE in order to maintain the sacredness of a SYMBOL of that SACRED LIFE varies little from those who profane life by committing suicide. Those Jehovah’s Witness Elders who teach and police this moronic doctrine vary little from common accessories to murder. The Bible is fairly clear in how GOD views murder, and how He deals with Murderers.
This moronic twisting of scripture would be laughable if not for the fact that it has lead to the pointless deaths of numerous Jehovah’s Witnesses in the past, and it will continue to lead to the pointless deaths of many more Jehovah’s Witnesses in the future.
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TO:doofus hayhauler you are a spamming jehovah witness troll
“A spamming Jehovah Witness troll”??
And here we see absolute confirmation that these message bords belong to apostates. At least THEY think so.
Bye
Beth,
Why was your response to my post so arrogantly vicious in it’s nature?
Please all interested in accurate knowledge, as spoken of by the medical community , view this streaming video clip and also the links at the top left of the page:
http://www.watchtower.org/e/vcnb/article_01.htm
No Blood—Medicine Meets the Challenge
This program will be of interest to all who want to be fully informed of the options that are available in the field of bloodless medicine. See why some leading experts have called bloodless medicine the new standard of health care.
Warm Christian love for all of mankind,
doofus hayhauler
Ahhhh, the utter hyprocrisy of the Watchtower cult. For 100 years they declared they had NO TOLERANCE for other beliefs.They disfellowshipped and ‘treated as dead’ a million loyal members who dared to question in good faith.
Now,that their false prophecies have been exposed, they do a passive/aggressive bait and switch and whine how they should be treated no worse than the other “false religions”.
Yes,now admiiting they’re false too,1914 generations issue,whole blood issue,United Nations involvement coverup scandal…
The Watchtower leaders are the ‘evil slave’ that beat their fellow slaves.
Jeff
well u got die sometime ……. death is the only thing u are sure of
Yeah, but I’m not going to die for a lie, and I’m going to put it off as long as I can. JDubs can die for refusing a blood transfusion just like the followers of Jim Jones or David Koresh died for their cult leader, but I’m not about to die for some misguided old men who call themselves the governing body in New York.
Perhaps it is true that “we all got to die sometime”….but it need NOT BE at the hands of an antiquated dietary law that was not written or meant for Christians.
It was a hideous and grossly immoral action to ALLOW this young mother of newborn twins… with her entire future in front of her….to die in this manner.
Thank you, Annie G. I was going to say about the same thing, but you’ve described my feelings on the matter perfectly. Your post is a compliment to mine above.
One of the ‘big ten’ laws can be broken to save the life of a sheep, but that law must be followed to death? And it ISN’T EVEN IN THE BIBLE!!! It is totally man’s law, not Gods. I bet her kid’s will think her life is more valuable than that of ‘even’ a sheep! That family is going to be having some hard regrets soon.
It is not necessary to attack people such as “doofus”. If you do a lot of research in the Watchtower publications, the Bible AS WELL AS elsewhere, the unscriptural nature of the Watchtower policy will soon come to light. If it looked at with an honest unbiased view, it will all fall into place for you.
Commemnts such as “troll” are not necessary, and on the other hand, neither are comments such as “apostate”. These are both emotionally charged words which add nothing to the arguement.
If someone posts something that is silly, either (1) logically refute it, or (2) let it alone and look silly in its own right, instead of stooping to the level of insults.
People who post comments such as “you JW troll” are often JWs themselves, trying to invent some kind of phantom persecution. So if we all vow not to post silly comments like that, those who do will be exposed into the open as trouble makers.
It was pointed out that: “1Tim2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”
Do Jehovah’s Witnesses EVER claim to “be saved”? Not as far as I know.
They are not even sure they will “make it” into the New Order unless they have an outstanding record of mandatory meeting attendance and a healthy amount of “hours” to fill in on their mandatory time slip every month!
Speaking of the “Knowledge of truth”……we are taught that JESUS CHRIST is the truth and NOT that Watchtower Society. It puts an entirely different spin on things, doesn’t it?