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Isn't there a scripture that says that God is not a God of cunfusion?
I remember when the "new light" about blood fractions was delivered from the Almighty to the angels to the governing body to the congregations that I was so cunfused, and felt stupid because it was not clear to me....JWs take no blood but we can now take fractions, or parts of something that was heretofore considered by God strictly and expressly forbidden? I wondered what form the new light could have taken so that the governing body, with no medical training, knew exactly WHICH fractions were allowed and which were not? Deep inside I felt something was wrong....if it is forbidden to take blood into the body, would it matter if it were part or whole? After all, if the Bible says do not kill, can you kill part of a person and not the whole? Can you lie about some things but not others?
It also made me think of a family I'd known in Florida. Many years ago, prior to any changes, their five year old daughter was diagnosed with acute leukemia, and the doctors immediately wanted to give her blood. Court was held and they in effect took custody away from the parents, although they let them stay with her as long as they did not interfere with any treatments. The small, close knit congregation that we were all in was abuzz. My husband and I, and another couple drove two hours to the Hospital. I took some homemade soup and the other couple took fruit. We wanted to comfort and stand by them, giving our support. Some years later, I found out that the other couple had told the parents, "If it were me, I'd throw her out the window (several stories up) before I'd let them give my child blood." Others in the congregation had told them they should get in the car and run with their family (they told the people they had four kids and now the dad would have no job...plus they'd have a dying child in a car...how long could people in far off places put them up, and what would happen to the other children when eventually the parents were imprisoned? At any rate, they were stressed enough already, and everyone was adding to it. As per the court decree, the child was given blood, but it didn't help, and she died at home a few months later. After all this, the dad and another child (now grown) died. I was really close with the mother, and I wonder how all this "new light" has effected her? I can't help but think that she may be bitter now, thinking that if she'd acted sooner and her child could have received the "right fraction," the outcome might have been different and she might still have her daughter. Or, since I've not heard from her in years (she knows that my husband and I are considered dangerous) perhaps she is still clinging to every pronouncent from the GB, trying to make sense of them.
The WT society, no matter what changes it does or does not make, is digging itself into a large whole....or might we use the biblical term abyss?