🙂💖For the "sheeplike" ones:
"It seems you know alot about how God feels about this subject. Here are 6 questions I'd like clarification on."
I need not be considered. God's Word is clear.🙂
"1. Do you believe blood is always sacred to God? If a Jew had bled some blood from an animal without killing the animal, would the extracted blood have been acceptable as a sacred sacrifice to God?"
Malachi 1:13,14
"“And you bring stolen, lame, and sick animals. Yes, you bring such things as a gift! Should I accept it from your hand?” says Jehovah. “Cursed is the cunning one who has a sound male animal in his flock, but he makes a vow and sacrifices a blemished one to Jehovah. For I am a great King,” says Jehovah of armies, “and my name will be awe-inspiring among the nations.""
Proverbs 12:10
"The righteous one takes care of his domestic animals,
But even the mercy of the wicked is cruel."
Blood is always sacred to God and not to be tampered with for unholy unapproved purposes. Removing some of the blood from an animal would blemish the animal, it would no longer be a sound sacrifice. And it would be cruel. Neither would be acceptable to God.
"2. Do you believe a doctor who told a patient to abstain from meat would be upset if the patient later had a liver transplant?"
Whether that particular doctor in your illustration gets upset probably depends on whether the insurance provider was willing to completely pay him for the surgery or not.😆
"3. Do you believe a blood transfusion would be acceptable to Jehovah if it was the person's own blood that was stored for transfusion? If not, why not?
4. Do you believe Jehovah is against blood tests? Why or why not?
5. Do you believe Jehovah is against dialysis? Why or why not?
6. Do you believe Jehovah is against hemophiliacs using blood clotting fractions VIII and IX which are derived from the donated blood of others?"
Genesis 9:4-6
"Only flesh with its life—its blood—you must not eat. Besides that, I will demand an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand an accounting from every living creature; and from each man I will demand an accounting for the life of his brother. Anyone shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God’s image He made man."
Deuteronomy 12:23,24
"Just be firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the flesh. You must not eat it. You should pour it out on the ground like water. You must not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you are doing what is right in Jehovah’s eyes."
Bible principles show that blood, once out of the body, needs to go back to God. In Israelite times, that meant either on the altar for worship in the manner approved by God or poured back to the ground. We are made of dust. God breathed life into us. The blood symbolizes the life. Pouring the blood back to the dust shows our recognition of where we came from and respect for God.
To play the part of a god, like some in the medical system do, to attempt to make someone "live forever" by fooling around with blood is sacrilegious. When spiritistic movies and books make fun of blood and life with their vampires and frankensteins, they are just making a parody of what goes on in the medical business system.
It is not wrong to take care of your body and stay clean and bind up your wounds if you get hurt. Get a cast if you break your arm. Get the medical care that is practical and within the bounds of what is scripturally appropriate. But to put the teachings of imperfect men ahead of the clear command of God by taking in blood in any way shape or form is neither wise nor obedient to the Christ.
There are some "doctors" who think sex changes or immorality or abortion are the solution to certain situations. As Christians, we need to be guided, not by what is popular in the world, but by what the Christ teaches and directs by means of holy spirit, even if it makes us unpopular.
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
"Let no one deceive himself: If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this system of things, let him become a fool, so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written: “He catches the wise in their own cunning.” And again: “Jehovah knows that the reasonings of the wise men are futile.”"
Acts 15:29
"For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things: to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!"