If you were Told to " ABSTAIN " from Alcohol by your Doctor, would you listen to Him? When it comes to God's law on Blood Would you circumvent God's Law?
No IDIOTIC answers Please.
2007-11-26 06:42:23 · 12 answers · asked by conundrum 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It seems clear enough that when individuals go deliberately against what the holy spirit inspires by Jehovah God's use, whether it be sexual immorality, idol worship or ingesting of blood, one definitely opposes its working!
The one to determine if one has "sinned against the holy spirit" or God's use of it, --is God himself!
Tha did not imply any judgment, but if one wants to take a chance in developing a calloused attitude toward God's word , then that is between them & God and his already ordained judgements!
Opposing what God has inspired and those who are simply parroting what it says is fool hardy as Gamalael stated:
ACTS 5:38,39 NIV
"Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.
--But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God."
That indeed is a precarious place to be, no matter how insulted you feel!
We are talking about life & death matters of the temporal kind and the ultimate for not heeding God's laws & principles!
2007-11-26 09:12:33 · answer #1 · answered by thomas_tutoring2002 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok listen this is all really simple.
New testament:
Acts 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] 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 [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” (There the eating of blood is equated with idolatry and fornication, things that we should not want to engage in.)
We find that the REASON this is so offensive is in Leviticus 17.
10 “‘As for any man of the house of Israel or some alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst who eats any sort of blood, I shall certainly set my face against the soul that is eating the blood, and I shall indeed cut him off from among his people. 11 For the soul (or life) of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for YOU to make atonement for YOUR souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul(life) [in it].
God has given all of his creation the gift of life. Thus he views the blood that carries that life to be sacred. If he views an ANIMAL'S blood as sacred dont you think he views the blood of his human servants as all the more sacred?
Conversely if it would be wrong to put an animals blood into our body to save our life isint it the same with a human's? Remember in leviticus it said EVERY SORT of blood. and by the statement in acts we can assume that this law still stands and was not done away with the mosaic law.
It isnt wise to violate a god given law to save our own life. And besides alternative treatments have been proven to be just as safe if not SAFER than transfusions. But people will still die for obeying God's laws. And personally i couldnt think of a better thing to do.
2007-11-26 10:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by Adamantium 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was a kid, I saw a neighbor and friends kill a huge hanging turtle, then one of them drained the blood and drunk it, I heard him saying that is good for the immune system and sexual potency, I did not know any of God's laws but it was abominable to me to see this act.
As for the other form, If we believe that satan was thrown out of the heavens and came around Earth to take lives, then traditional medical science serves as a gift of God to mankind in a time when there is not even faith, nor love around.
See that God gave us two kidneys when we can survive with one, perhaps as provision for this time of life loses. Organically we are all nothing and the same, it is the spiritual part that counts.
2007-11-26 07:41:16 · answer #3 · answered by Davinci22 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
At one time, the Watchtower society commanded its adherents (Jehovah's Witnesses) to maintain on with this scripture strictly. yet over the final decade or so, the Watchtower has softened its stand on blood transfusions. Now, Jehovah's Witnesses are allowed to settle for what the Watchtower calls "minor blood fractions." the place do those "minor blood fractions" come from? they arrive from DONATED BLOOD! as a effect, Jehovah's Witnesses settle for blood tranfusions. yet in an attempt to skirt around Paul's command in Acts, they in simple terms settle for blood after it is been separated into specific fractions. To make concerns greater complicated, there are some fractions they settle for and a few that they gained't. i might additionally ask the witnesses why they permit women human beings to communicate of their congregations? a million Corinthians 15:34-35 instructions women human beings to be SILENT at church. that's each and each piece as sparkling as Paul's command to ABSTAIN from blood. yet for some reason, the Witnesses do no longer take heavily Paul's command for females human beings to be silent. that's in simple terms yet another occasion of the JWs finding out on and finding out on which parts of the Bible to take actually.
2016-10-18 04:28:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If my doctor told me to abstain from alcohol, I would assume he meant not to drink it. However, I would NOT expect that he meant to completely abstain from using alcohol - such as applying it to a cut so the cut wouldn't become infected.
In the case of Acts 15, the context is clear that the apostles are saying not to eat blood or to eat animal flesh that didn't have the blood drained out. Any interpretation beyond that is just that - interpretation, because the "command" was specifically in regard to the eating of animals whose blood was to be "poured out" on the ground. This simple command was a reasonable one.
However, the apostles probably supposed that the Christians had enough common sense to know that if only unbled meat was available and they were in danger of starvation, that this was a dietary law, not a law against serious sin. Lev 17:15, 16 makes clear that the punishment of "cutting off" was for willful disregard of the law, whereas one who ate unbled meat could atone by merely bathing and washing his garments, thereby not showing a willful disregard for the dietary laws.
"Thou shalt not eat blood" is not even listed in the 10 Commandments. And a serious sin such as stealing or adultery couldn't be dismissed so lightly as Lev 17:15. The seriousness of the law against eating blood was the same as the law against eating fat - just because God said not to do it. It wasn't a sin that resulted in harm to anyone or anything, so God could be flexible in its application if he so desired.
2007-11-26 11:13:57 · answer #5 · answered by browneyedgirl 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I want to make a comment to THA he said, "Is it not interesting that "they" by denying the truth about blood deny the Holy Spirit...". Don't you feel that is a strong statement to make about others? Who gives you claim that others deny the Holy Spirit. I take that as an insult. Where in the New Covenant says we are "still under the law"? Jesus came to fulfill the law, not to do away with it. What law are they talking about? The Law that Jesus made clear to ALL of us that we must obey is" THE LAW OF LOVE." You know like, "Love your neighbors as you Love yourself." Also, "The gift to ask to your Father is the gift of "love", for the greatest of these "Faith, Hope, & Love" is "LOVE". We are ALL under the law of LOVE. Since you deny the law of Love, then it is YOU that DENY the Holy Spirit!
Romans 6:14,15: "For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but UNDER GRACE. (15) What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Romans 7:6 "But now dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and "NOT in the old way of the written code."
Thomas T are you referring to me because I said that's an insult? It sure is. THA has no right to say anyone that does not believe the JW's blood law, does not accept the Holy Spirit. You don't know for 100% sure if the JW's blood law is correct. Christ Jesus came to end the law remember? You know what law Jesus came to end? The law that the Jewish people was bound to. Jesus also came to end the law of "SIN" because he came to REDEEM us from our sins. I will say it is the "JW law" until proven wrong. But you guys are stubborn to your own beliefs and so this could all be fruitless.
2007-11-26 08:27:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Acts 15:19, 20, 28, 29
19 It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
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No food sacrificed to idols. OK
No meat of strangled animals. OK
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No prohibition of blood transplant. Transplant or transfusion is not eating or drinking blood.
2007-11-26 06:52:28 · answer #7 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Suzanne
Read those chapters again, because it has nothing to do with the Blood law.
2007-11-26 07:25:49 · answer #8 · answered by VMO 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think you need to read Galatians 2:11-21 and Matthew 15:10-20 very, very carefully. The commandment to abstain from blood came from James (without objection from Peter), who wasn't even an Apostle. Peter was wrong, as Paul explains.
If you are a JW, this truth will be veiled to you.
2007-11-26 06:49:51 · answer #9 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 1⤊ 8⤋
There is no God's law.
You have words of only men.
Please get help to be de-programmed.
2007-11-26 07:06:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋