by salty blood 5 Replies latest watchtower medical
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The Watchtowers original teaching on blood was that their are no uses for blood other than described in the bible.
Animal blood outside the body was to be given back to the earth or covered with dust which precluded its use for any other purposes. Leviticus 17:13
note(s):
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venipuncture,
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Paradoxically however, the Society has told JW medical professionals that as long as the blood is not being handled for purposes of consumption or transfusion, then their employement is a matter of conscience.
IOW A JW can work in a med lab and handle blood samples all day long
The WT has said
*** w78 6/15 p. 30 Questions From Readers ***
? Would it be wrong to submit to a blood test?
Based on their knowledge of the Scriptures, most of Jehovah’s Witnesses, if not all, do not object to such tests. The small quantity of blood removed from the body is not eaten or injected into someone else. It is merely examined or tested before being disposed of.—Deut. 15:23.
If I were still a dub, I guess I would say that we are not in the business of splitting hairs over such small things, but you might argue that the principle is the same?? - as you may think??
As for employment ? if the blood is not to be transfused then I cannot see that they would have any objection.
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QUOTE From NWT, Leviticus 17:13 "As for any man of the sons of Israel or some alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst who in hunting catches a wild beast or a fowl that may be eaten, he must in that case pour its blood out and cover it with dust."
The blood was to go from the dead animal to the ground but this may not be required from an unclean animal killed in hunting. If though it was to be....
A JW can work in a med lab and handle blood samples all day long
I worked as a lab tech for a few years and knew several other witnesses who had similar jobs.
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It certainly can not be said that the blessing of the Watchtower will cause a person to come to have peace when their opinion(s) are incompatiable and inconsistant with at least leviticus.
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