Trust the Watchtower on blood?

by radar 1 Replies latest jw friends

  • radar
    radar

    Many JWs, who say they refuse blood believing it is their own conscience alone and not that of the Watchtower.
    Yet when informed by Hospital Liason elders, that the "society" now leaves certain blood products down to their own conscience(meaning that you wont get expelled)
    Inevitably will then accept this blood product, and consider it as new light a concession from God.

    But Ask: Who's conscience is being exercised when this happens?

    To a degree, conscience is shaped on trust.

    *** w61 9/15. p559 Respect for the Sanctity of Blood ***
    19 In view of the emphasis put on the use of blood in the medical world, new treatments involving its use are constantly being recommended. But regardless of whether it is whole blood or a blood fraction, whether it is blood taken from one’s own body or that taken from someone else, whether it is administered as a transfusion or as an injection, the divine law applies. God has not given man blood to use as he might use other substances; he requires respect for the sanctity of blood

    On Vaccinations
    Golden Age, Jan. 5 1929, Page 502
    "Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows seeds of syphilis, cancers, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccinations is a crime, an outrage, and a delusion".

    Do you think it was wise and beneficial to have put trust in those words back then?

    “Anyone inexperienced puts faith in every word, but the shrewd one considers his steps.”—Proverbs 14:15.

    Radar

    Where there is no sense, there is no feeling

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    The organisation has always had a problem with telling people the REASONS for the actions they expect them to take.
    I always knew they were right about blood because of AIDS and various other diseases transmitted through blood transfusion and anyway, who needed blood? Some JW's were recovering quicker without it!!!
    And what about sex? Well I grew up with confused feelings (as most JW's do) about why we were'nt supposed to have sex outside of marriage. Was it because it was wrong and against God's law or was it as all the publications told you, it would lead to un-wanted pregnancies, broken families and a long list of strange diseases I'd never heard of.

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