by allpoweredup 45 Replies latest watchtower medical
By the way there is nothing wrong with eating blood sausage for the Christian just as there is nothing wrong with eating meat that was offered to idols. In the home of a pagan who likes to eat things strangled no questions of conscience need be asked
Why...because nothing that goes into the mouth can defile a Christian and nothing therefore needs to be refused.
Vanderhoven7 - "... there is nothing wrong with eating meat that was offered to idols..."
Adds that extra little zip, in fact.
The blood of goats is no longer needed as a symbol of life and redemption since we now have the real-deal/antitype
Respectfully, debating whether or not the Bible allows blood is the wrong argument. Saving lives is the right thing to do whatever your chosen holy book has to say on the matter. Debating scriptures gives them a credence that is undeserved in the age of modern medicine.
The bible is impotent.
Put life first!
Yes but Jehovah Witnesses will not stop refusing blood to their children without sound biblical exegesis on the subject. So it remains a worthwhile endevor.
I disagree.
What if the bible did in fact contain a clear and undeniable prohibition against blood transfusions, would you Vanderhoven then agree with the Watchtower position? Ridiculous, and yet to many JW's that is precisely the case.
The truly worthwhile endeavour is to educate the people we love away from supernatural nonsense and into the real world.
came to that conclusion myself, Fisherman, and if it so happens to also be Coftys then so much the better
That does not prove the conclusion either.
it is an absolutely knockdown argument against the erroneous and sick Watchtower policy.
No, it is not.
Respectfully, debating whether or not the Bible allows blood is the wrong argument. Saving lives is the right thing to do whatever your chosen holy book has to say on the matter. Debating scriptures gives them a credence that is undeserved in the age of modern medicine.
That is a different subject matter not relevant to the topic being discussed.
The bible is impotent.
Only if the everlasting life it promises is a lie.
Only if the everlasting life it promises is a lie.
It is, that shouldn't even need saying.
