What are the reason why the jehovah's witness avoid blood transfusion?
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Christians are commanded to ‘abstain from blood’\n\nActs 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” (There the eating of blood is equated with idolatry and fornication, things that we should not want to engage in.)\n\nAnimal flesh may be eaten, but not the blood\n\nGen. 9:3, 4: “Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you. Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat.”\n\nAny animal used for food should be properly bled. One that is strangled or that dies in a trap or that is found after it has died is not suitable for food. (Acts 15:19, 20; compare Leviticus 17:13-16.) Similarly, any food to which whole blood or even some blood fraction has been added should not be eaten.\n\nOnly sacrificial use of blood has ever been approved by God\n\nLev. 17:11, 12: “The soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it. That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: ‘No soul of you must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst should eat blood.’” (All those animal sacrifices under the Mosaic Law foreshadowed the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ.)\nEph. 1:7: “By means of him [Jesus Christ] we have the release by ransom through the blood of that one, yes, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his undeserved kindness.”\n\nHow did those who claimed to be Christians in early centuries C.E. understand the Bible’s commands regarding blood?\n\nTertullian (c. 160-230 C.E.): “Let your unnatural ways blush before the Christians. We do not even have the blood of animals at our meals, for these consist of ordinary food. . . . At the trials of Christians you [pagan Romans] offer them sausages filled with blood. You are convinced, of course, that the very thing with which you try to make them deviate from the right way is unlawful for them. How is it that, when you are confident that they will shudder at the blood of an animal, you believe they will pant eagerly after human blood?”—Tertullian, \n\nBlood Transfusions\n\nDoes the Bible’s prohibition include human blood?\n\nYes, and early Christians understood it that way. Acts 15:29 says to “keep abstaining from . . . blood.” It does not say merely to abstain from animal blood. (Compare Leviticus 17:10, which prohibited eating “any sort of blood.”) Tertullian (who wrote in defense of the beliefs of early Christians) stated: “The interdict upon ‘blood’ we shall understand to be (an interdict) much more upon human blood.”—The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV, p. 86.\n\nIs a transfusion really the same as eating blood?\n\nIn a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusion really be obeying the command to “keep abstaining from . . . blood”? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly into his veins?\n\nIn the case of a patient that refuses blood, are there any alternative treatments?\n\nOften simple saline solution, Ringer’s solution, and dextran can be used as plasma volume expanders, and these are available in nearly all modern hospitals. Actually, the risks that go with use of blood transfusions are avoided by using these substances.  \n\nAll ty
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The Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate religious holidays because they have a strict reading of certain passages of the Bible.  For example, they do not celebrate Christmas, because the Bible does not command Christians to celebrate Christ's birth, but rather his death (Luke 22:19, 20).  There is no mention in the bible of early Christians celebrating Christmas or Easter.\n\nJehovahs don't celebrate birthdays, again because the only mention of birthday celebrations in the Bible is by non-Christians (Genesis 40:20-22; Mark 6:21, 22, 24-27)\n\nThe one religious holiday which Jehovahs do celebrate is the anniversary of Christ's death.
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When you see & read a negative answers pertaining to Jehovah's Witnesses or a ??? asked, & by the way, your ??? is okay, it's the answers you receive,  most of these are from disfellowshipped Witnesses, and why were they removed?  \n\nFor anyone that would like to know why a person would be disfellowshipped, these are the reasons:\n\nSome of the offenses that could merit disfellowshipping from the Christian congregation are fornication, adultery, homosexuality, greed, extortion, thievery, lying, drunkenness, reviling, spiritism, murder, idolatry, apostasy, and the causing of divisions in the congregation. (1Co 5:9-13; 6:9, 10; Tit 3:10, 11; Re 21:8)\n\nMost certainly the "first century Christians" disfellowshipped people that did these things, unless they had a repentant attitude.\n\nWe know all about the way you act & speak, when the Witnessess have and assembly you so called Christians are in front of the Building carrying your signs and acting like fools.\n\nI also want to take this opportunity to think those that give a positive answer, regardless of whether you believe what we say, or not.
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I know when you donate blood you can't donate even if you take aspirin. You might want to find out if you can because people who have medical problems can't donate.
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Most blood transfusions are of packed red cells and not serum/platelets or white cells.  Red cells have no nuclei/genetic material.  Blood type and rH factor are important and mismatch can yield a type of rejection.  The white cells are ultimately "rejected"   In someone with an inactive immune system (chemo patient) the blood can attack the recepient!
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For one thing, the leaders of the JW church have been false prophets since the church was founded.  They have prophesized that Jesus was returning on this date or that date many times without it coming true.  They finally said that Jesus returned 'spiritually' which ended their predictions.  God tells us to test the spirits and false prophets are not to be listened to.  In addition, the belief of the JW church that Jesus was not ressurected bodily from the dead goes against Scripture and is an essential tenet of the Christian faith.  They do not believe that Jesus was fully God and fully man.  They only believe that Jesus was a man until He was ressurected ad divine spit creature.  Another essential of the Christian faith.  They believe in Annihilationism rather than eternal hell.  They do not believe in the Trinity doctrine but believe that Satan instigated the belief in the Trinity.  Another essential.  There are many, many more issues that come in conflict with Christianity that are too many to mention here.  This is aside from issues like not going to war because human government is not to be followed, not celebrating birthdays because every reference in the Bible that refers to a celebration results in death and things like refusing life saving blood transfusions.  The main things that concern the Christian Church are the essentials, a few of which I have mentioned.  Those, and other things that are in direct conflict with the Bible, are the things that make the JW church unchristian.  Hope this helps.  Blessings.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the scriptures demonstrate a clear pattern indicating the sacredness with which Jehovah God (and thus god-fearing humankind) views all creature blood.\n\nPredates Mosaic Law.\nFor example, over a thousand years before the birth of Moses, the pre-Israel, pre-Jewish, pre-Hebrew man Noah received what the scriptures record as only the second restrictive command on humans (after Garden of Eden's tree):\n\n   "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it [that is, lifeblood] and of man" (Genesis 9:3-5)\n\nJewish Law.\nLater, God's feeling regarding blood was codified into the Mosaic Law. This part of the Law dealing with blood was unique in that it applied, not just to Israel, but also to non-Jewish foreigners among them. It's also interesting that besides forbidding the consumption of blood, the Law also mandated that it be 'poured out on the ground', not used for any purpose.\n\n   "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust." (Lev 17:12,13)\n\nBy comparison, it's significant that the Law also forbid the consumption of ceremonial animal fat, but that didn't apply to non-Jewish foreigners and it DID allow the fat to be used for other purposes.\n\n   "The LORD said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use" (Lev 7:22-24)\n\nEarly Christian era.\nThe Christian era ended the validity of the Mosaic Law, but remember that the restriction on eating blood preceded the Mosaic Law by over a thousand years. Still, does the New Testament indicate that Jehovah God changed his view of blood's sacredness?\n\n   "[God] freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses" (Eph 1:6,7)\n\n   "[God's] beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins... and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood" (Colossians 1:13-20)\n\n   "we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood." Acts 15:19,20\n\n   "For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity." Acts 15:28,29
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They have to check it because if you are given the wrong type of blood and you are RH negative, then the antibodies in your blood will react against each other and create an attack on your body. I know I'm RH negative and have had to get Rhogam shot with every pregnancy
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the scriptures demonstrate a clear pattern indicating the sacredness with which Jehovah God (and thus god-fearing humankind) views all creature blood.\n\nPredates Mosaic Law.\nFor example, over a thousand years before the birth of Moses, the pre-Israel, pre-Jewish, pre-Hebrew man Noah received what the scriptures record as only the second restrictive command on humans (after Garden of Eden's tree):\n\n"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it [that is, lifeblood] and of man" (Genesis 9:3-5)\n\nJewish Law.\nLater, God's feeling regarding blood was codified into the Mosaic Law. This part of the Law dealing with blood was unique in that it applied, not just to Israel, but also to non-Jewish foreigners among them. It's also interesting that besides forbidding the consumption of blood, the Law also mandated that it be 'poured out on the ground', not used for any purpose.\n\n"No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust." (Lev 17:12,13)\n\nBy comparison, it's significant that the Law also forbid the consumption of ceremonial animal fat, but that didn't apply to non-Jewish foreigners and it DID allow the fat to be used for other purposes.\n\n"The LORD said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use" (Lev 7:22-24)\n\nEarly Christian era.\nThe Christian era ended the validity of the Mosaic Law, but remember that the restriction on eating blood preceded the Mosaic Law by over a thousand years. Still, does the New Testament indicate that Jehovah God changed his view of blood's sacredness?\n\n"[God] freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses" (Eph 1:6,7)\n\n"[God's] beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins... and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood" (Colossians 1:13-20)\n\n"we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood." Acts 15:19,20\n\n"For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity." Acts 15:28,29\n\n\nFor most Jehovah's Witness parents, they would never "let their child die" but would work with every health care professional they could find to pursue every non-blood treatment they could think of.
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Their bloody doctrines are full of blood alright. There's hemoglobin everywhere. They must love the stuff. On the surface it's about being good and all that; below the surface it's all about blood. Blood this blood that. "Eat my flesh and drink my blood." From the start to the end it's mainly about blood. Who can bare such a thing? Perhaps they are made in the image of their god; that is, bloodthirsty? But they're not scary, amusing would be closer to the truth.
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I think you are twisted...Rephrase your question.\nYou decide\nJehovahs whitness\nOf all items listed, only three have been discontinued. (marked with an asterisk) All are listed, however, to show the absurdity of Watchtower authority and the absolute control leadership has over the lives of members once they join. \n\n1. Jehovah God is not a Trinity\n2. The doctrine of the Trinity is inspired by Satan \n3. Jesus Christ is a created being, who at one time did not exist (a.k.a.Michael the archangel)\n4. The Holy Spirit is not a person but is "God's active force" i.e. gravity, electricity etc.\n5. Heaven is only for select Jehovah's Witnesses \n6. Heaven is limited only to 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses\n7. Jehovah's Witnesses are the only true Christians \n8. There is no Hell (It is simply the grave)\n9. There is no life after death (except for the 144,000)\n10. Salvation is by good works not by Grace \n11. You cannot be sure of salvation \n12. Jesus is not to be worshiped or prayed to \n13. Jesus did not rise from the dead bodily but as a spirit being\n14. You are discouraged from attending college\n15. The "first resurrection" occurred in 1918 \n16. All pastors are the "Antichrist"\n17. All churches are of Satan\n18. All governments are controlled by Satan\n19. You cannot take a blood transfusion\n20. You cannot be a police officer \n21. You cannot salute the flag, stand for the national anthem, or own a flag\n22. You cannot serve in the military\n23. You cannot buy girl Scout cookies\n24. You must attend five meetings per week\n25. Jesus'second coming occurred in 1914 (only known to Jehovah's Witnesses)\n26. You cannot marry a non-Jehovah's Witness\n27. If one does not follow the rules of the Watchtower they will be shunned\n28. You cannot read Christian literature from a Christian book store\n29. You cannot be a cheerleader\n30. You cannot celebrate any holidays (Christmas, Easter, etc.)\n31. You cannot celebrate your birthday\n32. You cannot run for or hold a political office \n33. You cannot vote in any political campaign\n34. You cannot serve on a jury\n35. You are discouraged from giving to charity (except Watchtower causes)\n36. You cannot speak to former members who are shunned (disfellowshipped)\n37. You cannot accept Christmas gifts\n38. You must read and study Watchtower literature regularly\n39. Only Jehovah's Witnesses can understand the Bible\n40. Angels direct the Watchtower organization\n41. Jesus did not die on a cross but an upright pole\n42. You cannot own or wear a cross\n43. You must report your witnessing activity to the elders\n44. You must go from door to door weekly to gain converts\n45. You cannot have friends who are not Jehovah's Witnesses\n46. You must refer to all Jehovah's Witnesses as "brother" or "sister"\n47. You cannot play chess*\n48. You cannot understand the Bible without Watchtower literature to explain it\n49. A child abuser is reported to Watchtower elders and not the police\n50. You must forgo vacations to attend annual conventions\n51. You are discouraged from buying a two door car-A "Theocratic" or "spiritually strong" Jehovah's Witness will have a full size car for the door to door work\n52. Men cannot wear beards \n53. Men must wear short hair\n54. Women cannot pray in the presence of men without a hat\n55. You cannot have a tattoo\n56. You forbidden to use any tobacco products\n57. Only officially approved sexual practices are allowed in marriage\n58. You must appear before a Judicial committee if you are caught breaking Watchtower rules (Secret files are kept on all members which record these meetings-these files are kept in New York and are never destroyed) \n59. You must not own wind-chimes (they are for chasing away evil spirits)*\n60. You cannot read any anti-Jehovah's Witness material\n61. You cannot use pet foods made with blood or blood products \n62. You can
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blood brothers are an interesting concept - whilst the small amount of blood shared is unlikely to cause any transfusion reactions - it may transmit HIV or Hepatitis, but there is a strange case in Switzerland where a group of girls developed antibodies despite never having been transfused or pregnant/ it was eventually discovered that they had had a blood sisters pact and shared each others blood and had subsequently developed red cell antibodies to the blood they had mixed.
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Without the blood of Jesus dieing at Calvary, there could be no salvation. God sees the blood of Jesus instead of our sins. That's why you pray in Jesus name when you pray.
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The "boyfriend" does not seem to be an actual Jehovah's Witness, but perhaps a person whose family are Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses do not tolerate extramarital sex, fraud, or abandoning pregnant common-law wives.\n\nThe questioner may benefit herself by learning about the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses. While the benefits are eternal, there are important benefits even now to obeying godly standards in all things.\n\nhttp://watchtower.org
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What a nice thing to do-I'd do it myself too if I could but I had a transfusion once so now they don't allow it-\nIf it wasn't for people like you I wouldn't be here.\n\nThank you.
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Jehovah's Witnesses 'try to get others to join' because they are commanded to do so by Jesus himself. Any personal eventuality or preference is far less important than that command.\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you
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To my knowledge, nobody is sure what purpose blood groups serve.  It's possible that there is no purpose, it could simply be something that happened because there is no reason for it to not happen.  It's not like blood transfusions happened occasionally to our ancient ancestors, there just isn't that much reason to get rid of them.\n\nHowever, there are some possible explanations.  The one that I seem to hear most often is that they serve a purpose in the immune system.  Look at it this way, if all human blood cells had the same kinds of coatings, parasites could copy those coatings and the immune system wouldn't be able to tell them apart from good blood cells.  By having LOTS of different blood types, a species of parasite can't look like "human blood cell" because "human blood cell" doesn't have a single look.  If the parasite starts to look like an O, it will be spotted as foreign in an A, B or AB person.  If it starts to look A then O, B, and AB immune systems spot it as foreign.\n\nIt's a great story, but a bit difficult to find support for it.  It's not like we can run an experiment where we isolate a population of A+ people and keep any other blood types out, keep them infected with malaria and see if the malaria starts to develop type A chemicals on it's surface!  I mean, we could, but I hope people would object!\n\nAnimals do have blood groups.  In particular, chimpanzees and the great apes have the same blood groups we do as I recall.