Do Jehovah's witnesses believe that if they have a blood transfusion, they lose their salvation?

Question

Also, how many doorbells do they have to ring to inherit eternal life? Someone told me 144,000. That's alot of houses.

Answer 1

What salvation? JWs believe that only 144,000 people are going to go to heaven. They believe that rest will live on a new earth.

Answer 2

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you have soooooo many misconceptions regarding Jehovah's Witnesses.......144,000 is the number that in so many different verses in the bible says and is believed to be how many have a heavenly hope..........if you read and say that model prayer found starting at Matt 6 you will know that the most important part is "let you name be sanctified.............thy kingdom (government) come let you will be done ON EARTH JUST AS IN HEAVEN)..............y is there gonna be a day of great tribulation or Armageddon if only a select few were gonna live on or be resurrected........... we gain our salvation by "walking in the way of Jesus" or so close 2 it we can c his footsteps..........Jehovah's Witnesses will not receive a blood transfusion because God's law said to "abstain from blood" so we don't have to worry about losing salvation in that manner

Answer 3

no its just not good to receive blood from others cause of our imperfection and about that 144,000 thats how many people are getting into heaven from here earth the rest of us if we qualify will remain here on earth to live happily ever after what a good view ha and jehovahs witnesses have to tell everyone about the good news so they dont ever stop spreading the news

Answer 4

1. Yes, blood transfusions are frowned upon.

2. Sharing a life-saving truth is honorable. How many? As many as you can.

3. The 144,000 number refers to the number of us that will be allowed into heaven.

Answer 5

First, why aren't you asking why 90% of those now refusing blood transfusions are not witnesses? Do they know something you don't?

As for going door to door, the Bible says Faith without works is dead. What works are you regularly performing to show your faith is not dead?

Answer 6

There can be no "consuming" of any blood. For the JW this includes transfusions.

Answer 7

Jehovah's Witnesses do not pretend that they know which individuals will survive Armageddon and which will not. Witnesses believe the bible to teach that nearly all dead humans will be resurrected to perfect bodies in a restored paradise earth.

Jehovah's Witnesses well-recognize the plain bible truth that a Christian can disqualify himself from salvation, particularly as that applies at Armageddon (emphasis added to following citations).

(Matthew 24:13) But he that has endured TO THE END is the one that will be saved.

(Philippians 2:12) Keep WORKING OUT your own salvation with fear and trembling

(Hebrews 5:9) [Jesus] became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those OBEYING him


Jehovah's Witnesses hope to demonstrate love and devotion for God and Christ when they pursue the qualities and work indicated by the Scriptures. Similarly, Witnesses work to avoid the qualities and pursuits which the bible teaches is displeasing and distracting from God and Christ.

No Witness would pretend that any "works" could change the fact that salvation is always an undeserved gift. God and Christ are beautiful, majestic, merciful persons who have the power, wisdom, justice, and love to preserve alive any who they will.

Until that time, Jehovah's Witnesses preach a message of "good news", and leave all judging for Jehovah and Jesus to perform "on the last day".

(Acts 10:36,42) Declare to them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ: this One is Lord of all others. ...this is the One decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead

(John 11:23-25) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life.

(John 12:48,49) The word that I [Jesus] have spoken is what will judge [a person] in the last day; because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment

(John 8:16) if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me

(Matthew 12:36) They will render an account concerning it on Judgment Day

(John 5:22,27-30) [The Father] has committed all the judging to the Son... 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out... I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

(Acts 17:30,31) God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man [Jesus] whom he has appointed


In addition, Jehovah's Witnesses are quite famous for teaching that "hell" does not exist as Christendom has taught it; God has *NOT* arranged for any such place of fiery torment for sinners in some netherworld. The original Hebrew and Greek words most commonly translated as "hell" actually refer to the common grave of mankind; the Scriptures point forward to a time after Armageddon when humans will live forever and death and "hell" are themselves destroyed.

(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]

(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire

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Answer 8

lol-- none there to biz fighting the Mormon's/LDS over the door bell

Answer 9

It is part of not eating blood!