Anyone a Jehovahs Witness?

Question

well im doing a health and social project about ur health and well being..
just tell me things about your religion basically
about not having blood transfusions ect..
would really help me understand:)
xxx

Answer 1

Do NOT listen to Unsilenced Lamb if you are sincerely interested in knowing the truth about Jehovah's Witnesses. She is an Apostate & will use any means possible to spread lies about Jehovah & his organization. An Aposate is an angry person who is trying to drag everyone possible down with them.

Answer 2

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.

In 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?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The answers above me are correct.

Answer 5

this is very improtant. I found this answer for you...pretty extensive.
The “new light” on blood transfusions has changed considerably and often over the last few decades, for two specific reasons. 1) Inaccuracy of research on the issue from a scientific and medical standpoint, and 2) for legal reasons that implicate the Watchtower Society in the unnecessary deaths of many individuals whose lives could have been saved by a blood transfusion. In the early decades of this doctrine most of the changes were due to corrections on inaccuracies, but in recent decades the Legal Dept. of the Watchtower has had some influence on the doctrine itself. In addition, many countries that would have banned Jehovah’s Witnesses as a religion because of denying life-saving transfusions have been issued public relations statements that would seem to indicate that Jehovah’s Witnesses are not PROHIBITED from having blood transfusions, but do so as a PERSONAL CHOICE. (Of course, if they make the personal choice to HAVE a blood transfusion, they are immediately shunned and considered as excommunicated, but this is not mentioned in their PR campaigns.)

However, one should not assume that the powers that be in the Watchtower are in total agreement with each other. While I was at Bethel (1974 to 1980 as a Bethel Elder and floor overseer in the pressroom), it was well-known among insiders that the Service Dept., which handles matters such as policing the organization and disfellowshipping/shunning, was at times at odds with the Writing Dept., who were often more concerned with Biblical accuracy over controlling the masses. (See Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom by Raymond Franz, former member of the Watchtower’s Governing Body and nephew of Fred Franz.)

In recent years the Legal Dept. has had to butt heads with the Governing Body over many doctrines that have caused them legal problems with lawsuits and with the legal status of the organization in emerging democracies such as Bulgaria, Russia, etc. In order to retain such arcane teachings while appearing to allow their members much freedom in matters of doctrine and conscience, the Watchtower Society has had to publish one set of rules to their followers in their literature (and more importantly, by oral teachings not specifically spelled out in print), yet another to the public media and the governments. It is noteworthy to mention that the Watchtower is not averse to using what they call “theocratic warfare,” which is defined as not disclosing to the enemy what they are not deserving to hear (in this case, the enemy can be anyone who is not favorable to the Watchtower Society, such as “worldly “ governments and news reporters). In modern parlance this is known as “speaking out of both sides of the mouth.”

Gene Smalley has been loyal to the old-timers at Bethel and continues to be, and many of them will side with him over the Legal Dept. or with any threats to the blood doctrine. The Legal Dept. is a necessary evil to the Governing Body, only because they need to do business with the outside world, which they consider to be completely controlled by Satan the devil. So it is not surprising that Gene stood in the way of the WT attorneys that were assigned to handle blood cases to do what was right. Apparently the Governing Body listened to Gene and not to their attorneys. Even today the attorneys have a problem with the GB taking their advice.

Maybe when all the old GB are gone, there might not be any loyalty towards Smalley, who tends to make enemies of certain people. But I think it will take a huge win in a blood lawsuit filed against WT to really make a difference to even the new GB who are even more rabid than Ted Jaracz (head of the WT’s Service Dept.) is about obeying the blood injunction. Isn't he, Barr and Barber the last of the old GB? Barr as head of Writing would never turn on Smalley who he likes and is loyal to, but perhaps after Barr dies, things might change.

Barr was known to have said to be aware of Smalley's faults but has said Gene is a good man. Jaracz uses Smalley to work the PR for him and Carey Barber is so old he's like the walking dead at this point in time. [UPDATE: Carey Barber died in April 2007] So how could one expect such people to wise up to Smalley? He was so slick he even had senior GB member Lloyd Barry fooled, but the rest of the senior writers did not like him at all. If Gene wasn't with a GB member or his wife, or his secretary, he was always alone. Few except Ciro Aulicino in the Writing Dept. would talk with him, and then only when Gene would come to Ciro's office to find out which way the wind was blowing. Life at Bethel is like a soap opera, and I know from six years of personal experience there.

Jehovah’s Witnesses will avidly defend the modern day revisions of their blood doctrine. Yet few actually realize how much it has changed over the years, nor are they able to explain all the recent changes. It is simply too confusing to try and ascertain what the Watchtower is really asking of them. At present, one can transfuse virtually all components of blood separately, but not altogether at once. The hypocrisy and unbiblical nature of the doctrine is astonishing! It is sad that because of the ever-changing and confusing explanations of the doctrine as to what is a matter of conscience and what isn’t, many Witnesses (due to fear of being destroyed at Armageddon for disobedience) would rather not have ANY blood fractions transfused and take the risk of death, for they believe they will be resurrected in the “new system” when Jehovah destroys all the governments of their earth along with all non-believers.



Can one man be largely responsible for the death of untold thousands? You bet. I believe Gene Smalley is bloodguilty, along with the other members of the Watchtower’s Governing Body who have conspired to placate Gene and his pet doctrine. The history of authoritarian religions in our century, with their stringent rules and harsh penalties to those who don't comply, is evidence enough that it happens all the time.
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Answer 6

Jehovah's Witnesses believe in getting the best medical care available for themselves and their families. Many individuals among Jehovah's Witnesses are themselves physicians and other health care professionals.

Jehovah's Witnesses have hundreds of hospital liaison committees around the globe to help advance nonblood medical management technologies and awareness in the medical community.

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.


Predates Mosaic Law.
For 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):

"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)


Jewish Law.
Later, 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.

"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)

By 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.

"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)


Early Christian era.
The 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?

"[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)

"[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)

"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)

"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


Modern times
Some will claim that the bible's command to "abstain" from blood only applies to eating it, and does not apply to the use of blood for other purpose. If that form of respect for blood were common among Christendom, one might wonder then why so many (who ostensibly follow the book of Acts) so happily eat their blood sausage and blood pudding if they truly respect blood according to some limited understanding of Acts 15:20,29. In fact, respect for blood and for Acts and for the Scriptures themselves is too rare among even supposedly god-fearing persons.

An honest review of the Scriptural pattern over the millenia from Noah to the Apostle Paul teaches humans that blood is to be used for a single purpose: acknowledging the Almighty. Otherwise, for centuries the instruction was to simply dispose of it; 'poor it upon the ground'. When Jehovah's Witnesses pursue non-blood medical management, they are working to honor and obey their Creator.


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