Why do certain religions not allow medicine or life prolonging machinery to be used on members?

Question

If you could back me up with legitimate websites proving this, I would appreciate it.

Answer 1

Christian Science and Jehova's Witness are two such. Christian Science believes that God will heal illness if it is his desire. I'm not sure about Jehova's Witness, except that they do not allow blood transfusions.

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses DO allow lifesaving medicines and/or life prolonging machinery. They DO NOT allow blood transfusions..there is a big difference. I do know of several people(my daughter included) that were on life support. Some survived, some like my daughter did not. My children have been given lifesaving oxygen at birth due to complications, and I received an injection of epinephrine when I had an allergic reaction to a wasp sting. JW's believe that when the bible says to abstain from blood(Acts 15:20,29)...that includes blood transfusions. But they dont want their children or family members to die...so they do all they can(within bible teachings) to save their family member.

Answer 3

Because of a warped interpretation of God's providence. They claim that if God wants a person healed, He can heal them without medicine or a doctor. Of course He "can" if that is what He decides to do. However, if He decides to heal a person by guiding them to the right doctor, that too is His prerogative. Sadly, such "Christians" deny God that right. They tell God, "You will heal my child the way I say, or not at all". And not a few children have died as a result. And in some cases the parents have rightfully been charged with negligent homicide.

Answer 4

we are given a time .anallotted time to learn the lessons god gave us
yo overstay that time we are learning stuff that could harm us bejond that we are meant to know
ythat knowledge could be harmfull spiritually thus god and thus nature knows best
we think to beat the odds but in prison ,which this rightfully is ,we are alloted a determined strech ,heavens pleasures are such as loosing freedom just because we like jail dosnt mean jail is all there is ,
we are here some for days some for hundreds of years,we cheat but in cheating are set up to fail ,every experience teaches us some thing,to cheat at our lessons is to become ignorant and to have to return to jail
say you are born with an ugly nose or a weak heart this is your terms of parol your means of learning
to steal anothers heart is to take anothers mans time,why not just serve our own time ,learn our own learnings from those who know better
if say god said you need to learn the teachimg of little b--bs and you cheat and get big ones have you learned its teachings or just skipped class ,and learned only you can avoid its teachings.
we can aliviate a persons sufferings ,indeed are obligated to
jesus was able to heal sickness because he saw the lesson of the teaching of sickness ,and was able to see if the teaching was learned or not ,life is more amasing than people can ever be able to know but if you miss the teaching your wasting your time trusting mans science.
you learn here the easy way or later the hard way ,trust the judge serve your time and learn its knowing,

Answer 5

Because they believe that every human has a natural life to live. And the length of the life is God's will and it shouldn't be prolonged or shortened by medicine.

Answer 6

I don't have a website, but they do this because it is their belief it is wrong. for example the Jehovah's Witness do not allow blood transfusions because according to their doctrine it is the same as eating or drinking blood. I know it is not, but they feel it is. I only know this because I nearly became a JW in 1975.

Answer 7

Most do this because they take the word of God literally.

Answer 8

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