We all know the JW view on blood. I read an article in "Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty" (C.H.I.L.D.) latest newsletter that detailed how some come to a belief that all medicine is against God's will. It was so earily similar to the Watchtower's views on blood & the cross, that I wanted to share it.
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“Since God is a jealous God,” Horner writes, “He also is a jealous healer. . . . To confess Jesus Christ as your personal healer automatically renoun- ces all of the world’s methods of healing—drugs, surgeries, exams, therapies, etc. Jesus never healed these ways in the past and He hasn’t changed. God cut King Asa’s days short because he sought for healing in the medical system. . . . Jesus, as the embodiment of Truth, refused to let a very popular medical drug—gall—into his body to ease the pain before the crucifixion.
“One more very serious heartcry for God’s people to reject the arm-of-the-flesh medical system and cling to only Jesus Christ for healing: Read Revelation18:23. Godveryclearlysaysthat Babylon is going to lead the whole world astray thru sorcery in the last days. . . .The word rendered ‘sorceries,’ is the Greek word ‘pharmakeia.’”
As Freeman and Eddy did, Horner takes pride in using Greek and Hebrew meanings of words when convenient. He tells us that the primary definition of “pharmakeia” is “employment of drugs for any purpose” and thereby translates Rev. 18:23 as God saying to Babylon and today to the West, “By thy employment of drugs for any purpose were all nations deceived.”
“Neither Jesus, who spit the drug out, nor His Word, which condemns it in Rev. 18:23, can justify for any purpose, the use of drugs,” Horner adds.