God gave 2 laws about blood:
Don't eat it, and
Don't shed it
Each of these situations involve choosing between saving (or trying to save) your life, or breaking one of those laws.
What is the Jehovah's Witness view about them?
1. Eating meat with blood in it, or starving to death.
2. Kill or be killed.
3. Taking a blood transfusion or bleeding to death.
4. For women only (tubal pregnancy.) Having an operation to remove the tube and fetus which will result in the death of the child, but possibly prevent you from bleeding to death. Keep in mind that, in time, the fetus will die. You have to decide whether to wait for it to happen naturally, or having a share in deliberately ending the life of a living human. .
Could you justify or possibly justify breaking one of God's laws (don't eat blood, don't shed blood) to try to preserve your life in any of these situations? Is there a difference? If so, what?
2007-11-08
07:34:47
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