Blood Fractions - following quote from the Reasoning Book

by insearchoftruth 25 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  insearchoftruth

  When I asked the elder about blood fractions he said that they are allowed because the bible does not speak directly to fractions....well if the bible does not speak directly to fractions, upon what did they base the below statement in the Reasoning from the Scriptures book......

  Animal flesh may be eaten, but not the blood
  Gen. 9:3,4: "Every moving animal that is alive may serve
  as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give
  it all to you. Only flesh with its soul-its blood-you must
  not eat."
  Any animal used for food should be properly bled. One
  that is strangled or that dies in a trap or that is found after
  it has died is not suitable for food. (Acts 15:19,20; compare
  Leviticus 17:13-16.) Similarly, any food to which whole
  blood or even some blood fraction has been added should not
  be eaten.
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  cantleave

  Yep the reasoning book needs to be updated to reflect all that new light.
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  JWoods

  It is obvious that they are moving away from the blood issue.

  An object lesson as to how this may be done could well be how the "vaccinations are dirty and demonized" idea was killed off in the early 1950s.
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  insearchoftruth

  The blood doctrine is HEINOUS....
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  BluesBrother

  Do you know of any foods that are made with fractionated blood? I thought that it was limited to the medical world. Do they fraction animal's blood?

  This describes a lot of dishes made from whole blood...For me it still has a "Yuk!" effect

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_as_food
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  bluecanary

  The Bible doesn't directly reference cigarettes, Christmas or blow jobs. If that's the reasoning they want to go with, they're in trouble.
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  blondie

  http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk/blood.html

  http://jehovah.net.au/blood.html

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/blood-transfusions.php

  http://www.jwfiles.com/blood.htm
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  JWoods

  The Bible doesn't directly reference cigarettes, Christmas or blow jobs. If that's the reasoning they want to go with, they're in trouble.

  Add to that flag salute, outlawing military service, police work, or public office...add to that Malawi Party Card or buying a license to go door to door. Add to that other holidays including birthdays (i.e. prohibition thereof). Add to that the idea that the last supper should be held only once a year and that only the "remnant of 144,000" can partake. Add to that selling magazines door to door being held as a sacrement of the church. Add to that explicit details on the style, shape, or type of cross that Jesus was executed upon - to the point that one type is OK, other types are demonistic or pagan. (DUH - ALL types were PAGAN by definition!) And yet witnesses think that everything they do is fundamentally Biblical.
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  undercover

  Good find, ISOT...

  Here's another one from the Reasoning book:

  Only sacrificial use of blood has ever been approved by God

  Lev. 17:11, 12: "The soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the alter for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it. That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: 'No soul of you must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst should eat blood.'" (All those animal sacrifices under the Mosiacl Law foreshadowed the one sacrifce of Jesus Christ.)

  Heb. 9:11-14,22: "When Christ came as high priest...he entered, no, not with the blood of goats and of young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all time into the holy place and obtained an everlasting deliverance for us. For if the blood of goats and of bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled sanctifies to the extent of cleanness of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through an everlasting spirit offered without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works that we may render sacred service to the living God?...Unless blood is poured out no forgiveness takes place."

  Eph. 1:7: "By means of him [Jesus Christ] we have the release by ransom through the blood of that one, yes, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his undeserved kindness."

  Highlighting mine
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  undercover

  And my favorite... (I'd heard this from the platform a bunch, but had forgotten that they were stupid enough to put it in print...)

  Is a transfusion really the same as eating blood?

  In a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusions really be obeying the command to "keep abstaining from...blood"? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he mus abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly into his veins?