Flip-Flop Article in
the - WT 1952 Dec 15, p. 764 Questions From Readers
Is
vaccination a violation of God’s law forbidding the taking of blood into the
system?
The matter of
vaccination is one for the individual that has to face it to decide for
himself. Each individual has to take the consequences for whatever position and
action he takes toward a case of compulsory vaccination, doing so according to his own conscience and his appreciation
of what is for good health and the interests of advancing God’s work. And our
Society cannot afford to be drawn into the affair legally or take the
responsibility for the way the case turns out.
After
consideration of the matter, it does not appear to us to be in violation
of the everlasting covenant made with Noah, as set down in Genesis 9:4, nor
contrary to God’s related commandment at Leviticus 17:10-14. Most certainly it
cannot reasonably or Scripturally be argued and proved that, by being
vaccinated, the inoculated person is either eating or drinking blood and
consuming it as food or receiving a blood transfusion. Vaccination does not
bear any relationship to or any likeness to the intermarriage of angelic “sons
of God” with the daughters of men, as described in Genesis 6:1-4. Neither can
it be put in the same class as described at Leviticus 18:23, 24, which forbids
the mingling of humans with animals. It has nothing to do with sex relations.
Hence all objection to
vaccination on Scriptural grounds seems to be lacking… Medical science, in
fact, claims that vaccination actually results in building up the vitality of
the blood to resist the disease against which the person is inoculated. But, of
course, that is a question for each individual concerned to decide for himself
and as he sees it to be Jehovah’s will for him. We merely offer the above
information on request, but can assume no responsibility for the decision and
course the reader may take.