Why can't Jehovah's witnesses bank their own blood?

Question

My aunt is in the process of dying due to an extremely low blood count and will not accept a blood transfusion. My mom asked the elder at the church if she pulls through this, in the future, can she bank her own blood for a possible future time. The elder responded that is against scripture. I know the scriptures used in support of non taking transfusions, but why not allow your own blood back in your body? No bashing JWs, pleaseThanks :)

Answer 1

she can bank her own blood....she needs medical help...if that old fool talks her out of getting medical help the he can be charged with depraved indifference by reason of hazardous and life threatening information...


and it is not against scripture...God would not have made the blood transferable and compatible of that purpose...blood typing, etc.. God created that ability to save lives and that old fool is denying God's knowledge...

Answer 2

Your dilemma shows the problems that result once people go beyond what God's Word actually says. The bit about pouring the life-blood out on to the ground only applied to animals being sacrificed or that were to be eaten as food. If it applied to humans, then why don't JWs drain all the blood from JW corpses and pour it out ceremonially before burial/cremation? Because that would be an absurd mis-application of scripture. They can see that, but they cannot see their own folly.

A callous comment was made by a JW saying that if a person was dying from cancer, giving transfusions would only prolong the agony. It is the other way around. Those with leukaemia and drastically low blood counts obtain relief with oxygenation via blood transfusions. JWs also go on about those who died despite getting transfused, failing to admit that the huge majority live. Their prejudice shines through.

The Watchtower Society 'allows' JWs to use a blood 'scavenging' machine during operations, which effectively mops up and keeps their own blood in circulation (though it goes outside their body). JWs with kidney failure are 'allowed' dialysis. Yet they are not allowed to store their own blood (for a few short weeks)! Who says? God certainly does not! The tragedy is that in time to come, the goal-posts will have been moved further apart so that storing one's own blood WILL be allowed. Meantime, gullible JWs continue to needlessly sacrifice their lives on the Watchtower Society's altar of blood. They allow a handful of men to decide what the details mean and not one of them will challenge these rulings. This is not JW bashing. This is plain talking.

Answer 3

That is a great question. I do not understand what could be wrong about banking your own blood for the future purposes.
However, there can be complications either way. If blood transfusions were dangerous, hospitals would not be allowed to perform them.

There is no place in the Bible where God forbids the blood transfusions. The places where JWs take that is clearly talking about eating blood.

If they were allowed to think for themselves, anyone should be able to make this personal decision. The Watchtower Society is playing God.

God's offer is the same for everyone. It does not have any " blood transfusion clause". We are all sinners and we need Lord God Jesus for our salvation. It is sad that your loved one is so fearful of the ramifications from the organization that she cannot think that she can serve God somewhere else. This exclusive JW group will never see the truth if they do not start to think for themselves.

Answer 4

we don't settle for any technique that comprises storing of blood. Blood that has left the physique could desire to be poured out on the floor. it particularly is the way it exchange into performed in Bible tiems. some witnesses have allowed an extension of their very own around equipment interior the honour of blood bled out, filtered (as in dialysis) allowing a gadget to do the artwork that the kidneys could frequently do and then right this moment back to a minimum of one's very own physique. this may well be a feeling of right and incorrect determination. although there is something you will possibly no longer know. Blood it particularly is saved loses some components of its existence giving homes. putting saved blood decrease back into the physique is particularly difficult on the physique. A unwell individual could frequently be greater acceptable off with out that greater rigidity. of course our judgements on blood are no longer made based on well being, yet on obedience to God's instructions. in no way the less we do know that God gave many instructions to the Jews that made them a fit u . s .. they could no longer have understood the justifications for the regulations he gave, yet via following them they have been plenty greater acceptable off than the international locations around them. We too are plenty greater acceptable off. No JW has shrunk AIDS or HIV or Hepatitis from a blood transfusion. We have confidence that HE is familiar with what he's doing and so some distance he hasn't been incorrect.

Answer 5

JWs have changed their stance on medical issues before, such as allowing organ transplants where they once forbade them. At the time they forbade organ transplants, I'm sure they would quote a zillion scriptures they say supported their position at that time. the scriptures didn't change but their stance/"understanding" did, and people who need life saving transplants are now free to get them without retribution from the church leadership.

I only mention this because now their medical position affects your family and now it's blood transfusions. You've read all the above scriptures they say support their current position. But remember, they have changed positions on their medical doctrine, and it may be too late for your aunt when and if they ever decide their interpretation of scripture was in error. they are proud they correct their mistaken thinking on matters, but unfortunately lives that are hanging in the balance can't wait for their eyes to open to the error of their ways.

my suggestion to your family: Keep the elders and all JWs away from her while she's in the hospital. Your aunt may be having second thoughts and with them constantly around, she may be afraid to ask for care knowing they'll declare her as having disassociated herself. If she chooses to have a blood transfusion in private, it will be between her and God. nobody needs know.

Answer 6

According to the method of handling blood prescribed by the Bible, blood when taken from a body was to be poured out on the ground as water and covered over with dust. (Lev. 17:13, 14; Deut. 12:16, 23, 24; 15:23; 1 Chron. 11:18, 19) This is because life is in the blood and such shed blood is held sacred before Jehovah God.

So, according to the scriptural admonition above, the practice of donating blood to be stored for some future use conflicts with the method of handling blood prescribed by the Bible.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/hb/index.htm

Answer 7

I'll try to tread lightly here out of respect for your aunt. I pray dearly that she pulls through, and I place her in God's loving hands.

It is sad and a shame, though, that people must continue to die for a belief that isn't true. I've been through this many times with JW's online, and none could answer me. Science proves that the body does not consume blood. The fluid is nothing more than a liquid organ that transports food, oxygen, water and waste throughout the body. That's it. However, despite the facts, the Watchtower Society continues to lead their faithful to a needless slaughter. I sincerely pray for everyone in there.

God bless.

Answer 8

Because they have a problem with "consuming" blood- it is not about taking other peoples blood. THey use scripture forbidding drinking blood to say that it is wrong. There are artificial "blood" products available. And most JW now say it is a matter of concience (if it bothers you dont do it)

Answer 9

Lev 7:26 forbids to "eat" blood so they take it as if transfusion will be the same as eatting it, I don't see any relation between one thing and the other and even less why she can't bank her own blood, but I would advice her to bank it, if she knows that only a transfusion can save her life and she still refuses to get it, that would be suicide and God don't approve that either

Answer 10

I hope you can understand from the answers given by the Jehovah's Witnesses why we would not bank our own blood.

It is interesting to note on a medical level, Doctors have found that within hours of leaving the body, a unit of blood loses up to 70% of its nitric oxide (which is responsible for helping red blood cells carry oxygen to tissues and for propping open tiny vessels). By the time the blood reaches its "use by" expiration date, 42 days later, the gas is almost nonexistent. Since the blood loses it's ability to carry oxygen, what benefit is it really? Is it simply "fluid" ? There are plenty of fluids that can be used in place of blood that would not go against God's Law regarding the "eating of blood". Just something to think about...

Answer 11

have u ever cut your finger lucid? have u ever sucked the blood from that cut? ,, is it the same as drinking blood then?
i have read in these posts some excellent quotations mm the thing is GOD HAS said yes the life of the body is in the blood , so if need be should i not get a transfusion so i can live and not die if its needed? .. JESUS himself shed HIS blood for others so they could live can i not shed some of my blood so others that need this life giving necesity , can live a life that is to GODS glory also??