Donate blood: Be right or wrong?
@YuleimaVzla (1857)
Maracaibo, Venezuela
July 30, 2019 4:12pm CST
Hello, in my neighborhood there is a particularly large number of people who are witnesses of Jehovah, which is one of the reversions that have cost me the most to understand by their way of interpreting the word of God. Without wishing to hurt any susceptibility (possibly in the community there are people witnessing jehova), I would like to know what they think about donating blood or not. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe and repudiate the fact of donating blood, when I asked one of my neighbors why, he replied that in the bible it clearly says that one should not eat or drink blood from their fellow human blood because it is Sin, but of course my dilemma is that blood transfusion is a procedure not an aberration, this neighboring witness of Jehova 1 year and two months ago he heard his eldest daughter because he had an internal effusion and they were not leaving their family members witnessing Jehova to have the girl transfused and as a result she died. Do you think it is correct to the theory of jehova witnesses about blood transfusion?
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
31 Jul 19
Committed people live by their beliefs. I'm not a Jehovah's Witness and I think that they are misled in many of the things they believe but they have as much right to their beliefs as you or I. Sadly, this sometimes means that people can suffer and even die because they believe that it is against their religion to accept modern medical techniques.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
31 Jul 19
I would query whether one has a right to a belief that causes harm to other people. I might believe that my deity demands that I sacrifice a child every second Thursday in the month, but surely nobody can say that I have a right to that belief.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
31 Jul 19
@indexer I can see where you're coming from. I think that it would depend on what is meant by 'child'. If it were an adult member of the family who shared the belief, then I think that they would be entitled to have their wishes respected. On the other hand, if the child were a minor and considered to be below the age of consent, then I'm pretty sure that the authorities, in England, at least, would intervene. I cannot say what would happen in Venezuela.
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
1 Aug 19
@indexer You are very right, my friend, there are no justifications when religion becomes some kind of commensurate fanaticism, simply God would never allow such atrocity and I think that chapter of the Bible has been misrepresented we are not cannibalists for a transfusion it seems to me that as interpreted things
@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
1 Aug 19
You know what I think? that this religion through its prophets or pastors, have misrepresented the true meaning of what this means, as I said earlier, it is not about cannibalism but about medical transfusion that is different but although with several I have had this point of view that I have rescued not because of stubbornness but because it is a human right to save lives, they always end up in the same spot and do not want to know reasons, but what they think and point, this is very rooted to the family patriarchs who have witnessed from Jehova for generations.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
1 Aug 19
That's sad that they would jeopardize the life of a child because of this belief which as you said has to be interrupted wrong. I don't remember this being in the bible at all. Or do they use another version other than the King James version?
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
2 Aug 19
If it is very sad, it leads me to question many things about the Jehovah's Witnesses, not because of intolerance, but because a person with 4 fingers in front of his head would not think so with his own children.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
1 Aug 19
No, Witnesses have it very wrong. There was no such thing as a blood transfusion in biblical days, and the passages Witnesses base their stance on are about not spilling blood, ie, not killing. Blood transfusions save lives. Not offering blood for transfusions can kill. I can't actually donate blood as I once had hepatitis and my blood could infect others though it is safe for me.
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
2 Aug 19
Hi Arthur, we are already 2, I also had hepatitis when I was a child, so I cannot donate blood, but when I was a child I produced many extra packages, so when I ran in sports I was bleeding my nose, the doctor told me that if I grow up I should continue like this I should consider being a blood donor, but when I grew up that disappeared, but my pediatrician told me that I could never get my hepatitis, in short you have a pretty interesting point about the technology in times before Christ, notice how far it can lead misunderstanding, you are absolutely right
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
2 Aug 19
@YuleimaVzla it is bad that Witnesses have allowed their own children to die for lack of transfusions - rather sad not to be able to donate blood when so many who could choose not to
@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
2 Aug 19
God that is awful!!! i used to know some jehovas witnesses and they seemed nice but this sounds horrifying if you need a blood transfusion its not a sin to get one its called wanting to live
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
2 Aug 19
@YuleimaVzla Sometimes people get so wrapped up into things they don't stop and really think
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
3 Aug 19
@chrissbergstrom It does not seem religious things, it seems a cult disguised as benevolence among themselves, I apologize to God if I am judging badly, but the actions that these people do leave me a lot to think about.
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
2 Aug 19
How firm and beautiful your motto seems to be a slogan of a campaign and so true that it is what you say, I not only would not deny it to my children, but I know jehova witnesses that their elderly parents, siblings etc. have I denied that opportunity to live with mortal terms, and I wonder why would I want to do that to my parents? those things are not of a good God as they praise Jehovah. They contradict each other.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
6 Aug 19
Its Its their belief and they think they are right. I have donated blood maybe 5 times and I do it because I know I can help people.
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
7 Aug 19
I also think that whatever method of saving lives would please God and not sin.
@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
7 Aug 19
@ilocosboy I hope not to be branded intolerant, but it is an issue that had to be discussed, since it is important to rescue values ??so that it does not fall into a misrepresentation of what the Bible really means.
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
7 Aug 19
That is what we believe, and I agree with you.
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@xstitcher (39110)
• Petaluma, California
4 Aug 19
I don't know what blood transfusions have to do with what God says. We are certainly not to shed blood (kill) but we are to do good, and I think giving blood would be one of those things if you can. I don't believe I can myself, as I have too much prescribed medication in my blood.
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
4 Aug 19
If we are sinners to do, we will be good! but I believe that everything in this life has been created by God and allowed by himself, even those transfusions, saving lives can never be a sin.
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
31 Jul 19
I am afraid that this belief is dangerous nonsense that is based on ignorance. A JW would happily sacrifice the life of a child that needed a transfusion and believe that are obeying the will of God. How can that possibly be morally justifiable?
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
11 Sep 19
I can not challenge their faith and belief.
But definitely all the religious books and scriptures are written by a human. And so they are always debatable.
But my personal view is that blood donation is a big noble work and hurts no one.
@emmapadrino (195)
• Calabozo, Venezuela
30 Jul 19
religion and technological and scientific advances do not get along, jehova's witnesses prefer to die rather than be transfused, my mother-in-law was a witness to jehova and was very blunt about this issue and others that I did not see sense
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
30 Jul 19
I don't know if it is selfishness before God, but I don't see it either, but if one of my children needed transfusion to save his life, I as a mother would never hesitate to transfuse it.
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@crisma15 (451)
• Venezuela
1 Aug 19
I am a Christian and the Bible does not condemn in any place such a situation on the contrary it says that it gave gifts to men and that it endowed them with great intelligence and even more it says that science would increase day by day what it means that God trained us for general solutions to the collective, within them is medicine.
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@YuleimaVzla (1857)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
2 Aug 19
Crismaida our Lord has always opted for the happiness of his children, sometimes God's designs are uncertain but they are not decisions that should be made and human being, they argue that they must be left are transfused because simply Jehovah will save them, but in the Bible He also speaks of free will, which makes us take the course of a situation around our own decisions, so it is also in man's hands to save lives, because God has imposed it.
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