I'm posting this again, for the jws - and I say - how dare you require the life of others.
Pharisees thought old testament laws about eating were meant for their flesh - the wtbts does the very same. The eating laws were spiritual teaching (not a word of the law has passed away) but the unspiritual pharisee did not understand - we still should not eat swine ( be like someone who feeds then goes and whines without having "chewed the cud), or eat the birds of prey (take advantage of those not as fortunate), or eat fish without fins and scales (and be like those at the bottom of the 'sea') - everyone is familiar with this - swallowing a camel and giving to dogs.
The Word also clearly said that we must eat His blood to have life - so where did you get His blood?
It is to intimately take on His life - not others, even another sheep.
What I am trying to say is that the wtbts idea of "eating blood" is the very same as the pharisees' ideas about eating certain animals - a literal understanding of spiritual teaching. It is well known (by some anyway) what the old "culinary" laws teach - and everyone has at least been in some way made aware of it by Jesus.
There is simply no excuse for the silly interpretation of the wtbts - and what excuse can they give for requiring the lives of those needing a transfusion? It's God's fault?
