Why do Jehova's whitnesses refuse to receive transfusion?

Question

One thing I don't get: if Jehovah’s witnesses believe that only 144.000 will be saved and that nothing they personally do can change this, that the number (and persons) are already set and no changes can be made, then why do they refuse to receive blood transfusion or organ transplantation, as they believe that they will receive the sins of the donor? What difference does it make? Please, someone, explain it to me..

Guys, guys, I get that they are forbidden to receive blood and that they believe they'd get sins of a donor, I already wrote that, I am asking what is the point? Read carefully question AND DETAILS!!!

Answer 1

The only approved use for blood in the Bible was as a sacrifice for sins. None other was to be used. Even the emblems of Jesus' death are only representations and not his literal blood and body. It is forbidden to Christians also. Acts 15:20, 21, 28, 29.

You do NOT receive the sins of the donor unless maybe they got HIV/AIDS or hepatitus, then you catch that or other diseases. That is NOT the reason though....that blood is only for sacrifice for sins is.

Though only 144,000 go to heaven, billions will be saved.
They live on the righteous new earth the Bible talks about over and over. Jesus mentioned it twice, Peter once and John once in the NT. Matthew 5:5, 6:10, 2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21.

It is mentioned continually in the OT that earth will last forever. Ecclesiastes 1:4, Psalm 78:69, Psalm 37 all, Proverbs 2:21, 22, Genesis 8:21 (to Noah about the rainbow promise God would never against destroy all living things...only wicked next time)...these were what Jesus referred to when he said 'blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth' at Matthew 5:5...when God's kingdom takes over earth, animals will be pets and no longer eat meat as well. Isaiah 11:6-9.

Most Protestant faiths believe this teaching, but don't want to be part of the righteous new earth.

Debbie

Answer 2

Not only the 144,000 (who will rule as kings and be priests in heaven) will be saved. There is also the "great crowd out of all nations, tribes.." that will be saved who will inherit the earth. Psalms 37 , Mat 5, Rev 21.

Acts 15:20 - but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.
Acts 15:29 - to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication

When did the practice of blood transfusion started? According to wikipedia.org that it started "The first historical attempt at blood transfusion was described by the 15th-century chronicler Stefano Infessura". So do you expect the Bible to explicitly speak against medical transfusion of blood during the 1st century when during that time it wasn’t practiced? Or have you ever thought that just quoting a GENERAL instruction, i.e., to “ABSTAIN from Blood” will suffice. How come in the Hebrew Scriptures it always state a SPECIFIC instruction to “do not EAT blood” but when it comes to the Greek Scriptures, it becomes a GENERAL instruction “abstain from blood” and NOT “abstain from eating/drinking blood”?

The question then is, when Acts 15 states “abstain from blood” is it only for eating and drinking blood? At that time, early Christians, understood that “abstaining from blood” means not eating and drinking it because blood transfusion is not being practiced. If it was being practiced at that time, the instruction in Acts 15 did not EXCLUDE "blood transfusion". The early Christians also understood that they won’t use blood for medical reasons, that’s why they didn’t use blood to cure epilepsy.

The point there is “eating and drinking blood” means the blood goes IN to your body. So what the Bible says is that we abstain from blood going IN our body. This means that you can use blood for testing, clean it, etc.

If you are allergic to nuts, the doctor will only say, “abstain from nuts”, that covers everything, that is, nothing to be taken orally and to be transfused. If you have allergies to nuts, you’ll understand. You don’t force your allergic kid to accept nuts , do you?

Answer 3

We do not believe that only 144,000 will be saved, nor do we believe they are all from the organization. Organ transplants were never banned and they were always acceptable.

The Bible doesn't say all believers will goto Heaven, it only states that those who are Born Again. Knowing people such as Moses, Job, and John were not born again, they will not of seeing the Heavenly Kingdom. However, they will still be saved and be resurrected on the paradise earth.


imapagan
The doctors said that a blood transfusion would have not saved Selena.

Answer 4

Everyone who died before Christ has no hope of heaven.

Jesus requirements into the kingdom are simple.

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."

Moses, Job and Noah among others were not baptized. So they do not met the requirements to enter the kingdom of God. So what is the point of them being faithful?

Jesus answered this by example. His ministry was to heal the sick and raise the dead. Did the dead go to heaven?

No. They were brought back to life to live on the earth. That is the purpose of human kind. To restore earth the way it was ment to.

Gen 1:26 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion..."

Gen 1:28 "God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:"

Answer 5

but the people that will not going to heaven but are approved by Jesus Christ will live in earth eternally in a good condition as the original purpose of God , that will happen after Armageddon and will begin wil the rulership of Jesus Christ in earth during 1000 years , during that time Jesus will restore the perfect conditions that humans lost inthe Gardem of Edem, 144,000 will live in heaven but millions will live also in a perfect place called earth ruled by Jesus and the 144,000 according to Revelation 5:10.

Answer 6

They belive that transfusions are 'devouring of blood' banned in Acts and Torah.

Answer 7

Cause they can get the sins of others from their blood. Then they'd go to hell.

As for the 144,000 -- they are the ones that will preside over the inauguration of all saints, or is it initiation I forget. Half will be Jehovah Witnesses and half will be Baptists.

Answer 8

The Bible says to abstain from blood.

"For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to YOU, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If YOU carefully keep yourselves from these things, YOU will prosper. Good health to YOU!" -- Acts 25:28,29

"Hence my decision is not to trouble those from the nations who are turning to God, but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood." -- Acts 15:19,20

"Only flesh with its soul—its blood—YOU must not eat." -- Genesis 9:4

"That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: “No soul of YOU must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst should eat blood." -- Leviticus 17


It is true that lately the number of health risks carried by blood transfusions has declined but they are still highly risky. It is much safer to perform a surgery without using blood.


http://www.watchtower.org/e/hb/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20000108/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20031208/article_01.htm


The Bible says that only 144,000 men and women have a heavenly hope. They will rule with Jesus as kings, judges, and priests over mankind (those with earthly hope). They are called "little flock".

"However, YOU are the ones that have stuck with me in my trials; and I make a covenant with YOU, just as my Father has made a covenant with me, for a kingdom, that YOU may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel." -- Luke 22:28-30

"And they are singing as if a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one was able to master that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth." -- Revelation 14:3

"And they sing a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slaughtered and with your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth."" -- Revelation 5:9,10

"Have no fear, little flock, because YOUR Father has approved of giving YOU the kingdom." -- Luke 12:32


http://www.watchtower.org/e/rq/article_06.htm

Answer 9

receiving a transfusion to them is like eating or drinking blood somehow. im Christian and i think it is CRAZY.

Answer 10

if a doctor told you to avoid alcohol so instead of drinking it you inserted it into your veins would that be diffrent?