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After all these years of allowing people to die for rejecting transfusion . Nawa o....

First and foremost I don't understand why instructions are not obeyed
do not share property of Jehovah witness on social media even as members, you do not hv the legal or patent right we don't hv the right they have publicity and legal department who knows how best to despense any message on social media now questions are rising up how well would you give answer than to cause issues there are a hundred and ten contents to post leave Jehovah's witnesses post alone even if the poster is a witness or not if I HV contact of your congregation would hv reported you

Obedience is better than sacrifice
Was this for the general public consumption
Apologies to everyone , it was for members only, you can use your own blood at worst case scenario

Wat that implies start today to store your blood in a blood bank for your own use at critical emergency

Personal choice

Last last, nah who die lose. it will still be amended again to take any blood.

kinsnazzy:
First and foremost I don't understand why instructions are not obeyed
do not share property of Jehovah witness on social media even as members, you do not hv the legal or patent right we don't hv the right they have publicity and legal department who knows how best to despense any message on social media now questions are rising up how well would you give answer than to cause issues there are a hundred and ten contents to post leave Jehovah's witnesses post alone even if the poster is a witness or not if I HV contact of your congregation would hv reported you

Obedience is better than sacrifice
Was this for the general public consumption
Apologies to everyone , it was for members only, you can use your own blood at worst case scenario

Wat that implies start today to store your blood in a blood bank for your own use at critical emergency

Personal choice

Delulu 😂😂
Cult member indeed

This is what it has always been. JWs don't prohibit anyone from transfusing their blood. It's a personal choice and decision. This is just a reiteration.

chimex38:
lol..taste of your pudding at times.
so you can actually run away when boxed?🙂

Did God's word forbid blood intake?
YES or NO?😀

TONYE001:
Prior to this post, your organization didn't accept autologous blood and blood product transfusions.

Guy try to be honest with yourself your blood differ from another person's blood that's what we are saying.

omoharry:
See this one! I am your brain has now reset to abide by your new religious policy of own blood transfusion. Many have died for free and you are still roaming around with your JW bag and big bible deceiving yourself

Sorry for your troubles my blood differ from yours!🙂

Go and ask health personels the same question about blood transfusion and stop being naive!🙂

femi4:
Wrong interpretation
The pretext n protext was centered around blood for sacrifice not medication.

Genesis 9:4
Leviticus 3:17; 17:11, 14
Deuteronomy 12:16, 23
Act 15:20, 29; 21:25
You can argue with God's word o!😀

femi4:
No scripture support the bolded
You made that up in your head. Just called it your belief cos its not scripturally correct

Skodiswayze:
The word of God is parables, abstain from blood doesn’t mean you can’t take meaningful transfusions, it means abstain from anything that is blood sucking, like ritual, persecution, and miming.
God spoke about blood consumption not blood transfusions in Medical needs.

There is no MEANINGFUL TRANSFUSION as long as it involves someone else blood!🙂

Faithless people claiming they believe in God!
Abeg tell them o!😀

promami:
This is what it has always been. JWs don't prohibit anyone from transfusing their blood. It's a personal choice and decision. This is just a reiteration.

kinsnazzy:
First and foremost I don't understand why instructions are not obeyed do not share property of Jehovah witness on social media.

If you tell them that someone posting this is not a witness they will argue!

📖 Where does “abstain from blood” come from?

The clearest place is:

📖 Acts 15:28–29 (NIV)

“It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality…” This instruction was given by the early church leaders, including Peter the Apostle and James the Just.

What did “blood” mean in their time?
To understand this, we must go back to earlier Scripture:
Leviticus 17:10–11 (NIV)
“I will set my face against any Israelite… who eats blood. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement…”

📖 Genesis 9:4 (NIV)
“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.”

🌍 Historical Context (Very Important)
In Bible times:
• People drank or ate blood as part of pagan rituals
• Animals were sometimes killed without draining blood (strangled meat)
• Blood was seen as sacred because it represented life
So the command to “abstain from blood” meant:

Do not consume blood as food or in ritual practices

So… is it talking about blood transfusion?

No—not directly.

Why?
• Blood transfusion as a medical practice did not exist in Bible times
• The discussion in Acts 15 is about:
• Food
• Idolatry
• Cultural practices between Jews and Gentiles

It’s not addressing medical procedures.

Why the instruction was given

The early church was trying to solve a major issue:
• Jewish believers had strict laws about blood
• Gentile believers did not

So this instruction helped:
• Maintain unity
• Avoid offending Jewish Christians
• Keep believers away from pagan practices

How do Christians understand it today?

There are different views:

1. Most Christians believe:
• The command refers to eating blood, not medical use
• A blood transfusion is about saving life, not consuming blood

This aligns with the principle that:
📖 Mark 2:27 (NIV)

“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”

Meaning: God’s laws are not meant to destroy life, but to preserve it.

2. Some groups (like Jehovah’s Witnesses) believe:
• Any use of blood, including transfusion, should be avoided

They take a stricter interpretation.

A deeper principle to hold

The Bible consistently teaches:
• Blood represents life
• Life is sacred
• God values the preservation of life

So the question becomes:

👉 Is the action dishonoring life—or preserving it?

💡 Final clarity
• “Abstain from blood” in Scripture = do not eat or misuse blood in a ritual sense
• It was not originally about medical transfusions
• The modern application depends on how one interprets biblical principles

MaxInDHouse:
The OP is misleading but since people like you don't care to Make sure of all things {1Thessalonians 5:21} i will help you.

The scriptures says:
"Abstain from BLOOD"
Genesis 9:4
Leviticus 17:11, 14
Deuteronomy 12:16, 23
Act 15:20, 29; 21:25

In all the above God's word is talking about blood from external sources not your own blood that could be drained and transfused back into your body!🙂

MaxInDHouse:
Guy try to be honest with yourself your blood differ from another person's blood that's what we are saying.

Totally, but this is not the issue.

A direct question, please: before now, was your organization accepting autologous blood transfusion?

Yes or No.

MaxInDHouse:
Did God's word forbid blood intake?
YES or NO?😀

Face the person boxing you into Yes/No. get a taste of it🙂

oroje1:
Ok.so u go open your eyes collect crase man blood? .To accept or not accept blood is purely personal. So y'all should let people be..who wan take let him or her take,who no wan take for any given reason,let him or her be...there are many choices we make in life,which some persons will frown at and vice versa.

Even "craze" men can have healthier liver, kidney, that are more suitable than intelligent/smart/phychological balanced folks.

You choice of acceptance isn't my point and concern.

Just wanted to clarify the GENERAL assumptions you might have inferred in your write-up that "ALL mentally ill peeps can't have compatible and healthy blood to donate".
Screening donors doesn't work like that.

#JustToClarify

kinsnazzy:
yes, if that settles your curiosity yet it doesn't violate God's law. What is simply telling you a witness can go to an approved blood bank donor start keeping some pant of his own blood for use against critical emergency. There is always provisions but preferably don't transfuse it's now a choice for witnesses depending on the level of spiritual understanding maturity etc

Storyland! 🥱🥱

Who dey run the "approved" blood banka? No be Jehovah witnesses affiliated vendors meaning their organization that came up with the scam is the same that makes bulk money from the scam? 🥱🥱

The blood is composed of:
Red blood cells
Whiteblood cells
Plasma
Water
Protein
Platelets
Etc...

Another issue to consider is this
Has there been any drugs, tablets or Cyrup that's usually consumed that uses components of blood from either animals or humans to Manufacture them?

If no, then The JW might have a point.
If yes, then we're all complicit knowingly or unknowingly.


The closest I and most of us know of is venom from Snakes, to create Antivenum medications.
But Venom isn't blood.

wjat makes your organization Gods ...and the others the devil ?

MaxInDHouse:
Most of you running into the thread to speak against God's organization needs to know that the OP doesn't view the Bible as God's word.

This is his/her position regarding the Bible:



So if you claim to be a believer in God's word be careful of people like this who are out to blasphem the Bible.

The Apostles and Elders in Jerusalem sent these word to Christians globally:

"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, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” Act 15:28-29

So this is not just about religion rather our health and researchers today have found out that blood transfusion is full of hazards but God's people needs to know that even though we abstain from external blood we can't abstain from our own blood.

That's the message sent to Jehovah's Witnesses globally!🙂

MaxInDHouse:
There is no MEANINGFUL TRANSFUSION as long as it involves someone else blood!🙂

I really do not see what you are arguing about here! The OP only posted what what announce to you guys! Prior to this announcement, JW was against transfusion of blood whether is your own blood or from someone's else. The announcement only make it okay for you guys to be able to store your blood and reuse it when needed which was not so before now.

I thought I was an instruction they got directly from God, so its actually a group of gods that gather to make and unmake these laws...

Nobody dragged me in to religion madness anymore.

MaxInDHouse:
If you tell them that someone posting this is not a witness they will argue!

Try to read up on your own materials

floss:
So others died for nothing…. Emancipate yourself from religious slavery Nigerians will not hear

No they didn’t die for nothing. Their reason for refusing blood transfusion was not based on what th governing body said. It was based on their understanding and conviction of what the bible said regarding abstaining from blood. Perhaps you may need to read that portion of the bible yourself and then draw your own conclusions as to its meaning - how can one abstain from blood.

The practise of the governing council (elders and the apostles) meeting in Jerusalem where they decided to explain the need to abstain from blood Acts 15:28,29 is exactly what the governing body of JW do today to give clarifications to issues as the understanding becomes clearer no matter how long they had held the belief.

This is similar to when the understanding came that a worshipper of God should not smoke - an action that early members of the JW practiced.

chibuikejohn:
Last last, nah who die lose. it will still be amended again to take any blood.

Anyone who died because they refused blood transfusion didn’t loose because.
1. We will all die one day irrespective
2. They were obeying their understanding of what abstaining from blood meant and God will remember them in the resurrection
3. There are people who not religious at all but also refuse blood transfusion for their own reasons..

MaxInDHouse:
Did God's word forbid blood intake?
YES or NO?😀

God did and you may want find out why God forbade blood even though he created it and humans can eat it. You need to understand intent first.

Then consider the different Bible portions that talks about abstinence from blood and why the elders and apostle in Jerusalem specifically mentioned to abstain from

1. Things strangled
2. Blood.


Then explain how else one can from blood.

God said:

“ ‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life. ‭Leviticus 17:10-11 NIV‬

This means each creature has its own blood cells but carnivorous animals can eat other animals and lick their blood such is dangerous for humans.
Why?
Because the body system of these creatures doesn't fight external sources of blood but when it comes to humans it's a totally different case.
When you mix the blood of Peter with that of Paul with the aim of saving the life of one of them this may sound good at the moment but then the cells will start working differently they will never mix up as one just as it does in the body of someone who has never been transfused before.
In fact the countless diseases mankind is treating today 80% comes from the mixing of blood cells either through SEX, ANIMALS STRANGLED AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION!
So when the holy spirit instructed the Apostles of Christ and the Elders in Jerusalem to abstain from all these things they concluded saying it has to do with our health not some delusional religious ideas! Act 15:28-29😟

janeedema:
📖 Where does “abstain from blood” come from?

The clearest place is:

📖 Acts 15:28–29 (NIV)

“It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality…” This instruction was given by the early church leaders, including Peter the Apostle and James the Just.

What did “blood” mean in their time?
To understand this, we must go back to earlier Scripture:
Leviticus 17:10–11 (NIV)
“I will set my face against any Israelite… who eats blood. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement…”

📖 Genesis 9:4 (NIV)
“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.”

🌍 Historical Context (Very Important)
In Bible times:
• People drank or ate blood as part of pagan rituals
• Animals were sometimes killed without draining blood (strangled meat)
• Blood was seen as sacred because it represented life
So the command to “abstain from blood” meant:

Do not consume blood as food or in ritual practices

So… is it talking about blood transfusion?

No—not directly.

Why?
• Blood transfusion as a medical practice did not exist in Bible times
• The discussion in Acts 15 is about:
• Food
• Idolatry
• Cultural practices between Jews and Gentiles

It’s not addressing medical procedures.

Why the instruction was given

The early church was trying to solve a major issue:
• Jewish believers had strict laws about blood
• Gentile believers did not

So this instruction helped:
• Maintain unity
• Avoid offending Jewish Christians
• Keep believers away from pagan practices

How do Christians understand it today?

There are different views:

1. Most Christians believe:
• The command refers to eating blood, not medical use
• A blood transfusion is about saving life, not consuming blood

This aligns with the principle that:
📖 Mark 2:27 (NIV)

“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”

Meaning: God’s laws are not meant to destroy life, but to preserve it.

2. Some groups (like Jehovah’s Witnesses) believe:
• Any use of blood, including transfusion, should be avoided

They take a stricter interpretation.

A deeper principle to hold

The Bible consistently teaches:
• Blood represents life
• Life is sacred
• God values the preservation of life

So the question becomes:

👉 Is the action dishonoring life—or preserving it?

💡 Final clarity
• “Abstain from blood” in Scripture = do not eat or misuse blood in a ritual sense
• It was not originally about medical transfusions
• The modern application depends on how one interprets biblical principles

TONYE001:
Totally, but this is not the issue.
A direct question, please: before now, was your organization accepting autologous blood transfusion?
Yes or No.

Who told you the organization accept or reject something for anyone?
Ọmọ it's divine guidance so it's either you adhere or ignore no one is forcing you to live by God's standards! 🙂

chimex38:
Face the person boxing you into Yes/No. get a taste of it🙂

OK you no fit answer?😀

tammyf:
wjat makes your organization Gods ...and the others the devil?

What makes the Israelites God's special people? Exodus 19:5