Why do Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY avoid blood transfusions?

Jewish doctrine allows blood transfusions if it is necessary to save a life. The book of Acts does not mention blood transfusions, since they were around 1900 years away. Why can't they separate the eating of blood for the transfusing of it?

smiling jw & mia-citing watchtower links is about as useful as citing Mein kampf to prove that Jews are no good. Either provide independent links that back up your highly dubious claims or don't bother.

I like that ham sandwich analogy. It's like a guy who refuses to eat them, but has no problem with eating all of the ingredients separately.

If you are eating blood, aren't you taking it in as sustenance? Even before I studied the bible, the blood transfusion made me physically ill. Why would it mean so much to you for me to take in someone else's tainted and dirty blood? Drive by a blood donation place on a day when they are taking in donors - would you really take a blood donation from any of those people lined up out in the street? Why when it is so unnecessary would anyone want that to be put in their own body? They now have volume expanders that carry more oxygen than any blood (thanks to some forward thinking scientists who developed this). Aside from the bible verse which condemns this, there is so much out there that puts blood transfusions back in the days of old fashioned medicine, please allow Jehovah's Witnesses and anyone else who considers their body to be a valuable gift to refrain from someone elses filthy blood.

Blood is sacred to God.

Also many people fear blood transfusions because of risks of wrong blood types being given and diseases. Thousands of people die from blood transfusions.
HIV, CJD, Hepatitis.

Many people who are not Jehovah's Witnesses opt for non blood transfusion procedures too because of the risks.

You hear more people dying in the media becuase they had taken a blood transfusion than Jehovah's Witnesses dying from not having blood transfusions. Even if you taken proportion into account.

If a doctor said you had to give up drinking alcohol for the good of your health would transfusing the alcohol in your veins be okay? Same way as eating and and transfusing blood. The idea of the Bible is to abstain of putting the blood of another creature in your body. Paul commanded Christians to abstain from blood in the same way as abstaining from fornication. Acts 15:28,29

Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept blood transfusions because it is an obedience of God that the apostle Paul relayed to Christians in Acts 15:28-29

"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!鈥?br>
Taking in of blood is among those things such as idolatry and fornication which are forbidden.
Because blood symbolizes the life of the creature.
Leviticus 17:11 "For the soul of the flesh is in the blood"

Blood is sacred to true Christians and the Bible has strict commands on how blood should be viewed and treated.

Jehovah's Witnesses do accept transfusions but just not those which are of blood. Not taking blood doesn't mean there is nothing medically can be done for us. There are many bloodless medical treatments available.
Our enemies as ever try to convince you it is take blood transfusions or die and some how we are dropping like flies, but they do not give you the truth just their distorted views.
In fact many people who are non-Witnesses are turning also to bloodless treatments because of the risks of diseases and been given the wrong blood types still happen regardless of the promises made of it's safety. There was a grim report not so long ago.

Visit our official website for factual information on our beliefs and also medical treatments available.
http://www.watchtower.org/e/medical_care...
DVDs are available on the scientific progresses of bloodless surgery.

Because the bible says not to eat blood. They do not understand that this means exactly what it say. Do not eat blood. If you have a steak that is medium rare with blod dripping, This is eating blood. They take this scripture for do not get a blood transfusion. The bible says nothing about blood transfusions, however it does tell you that the blood is the life. So if you drain the blood out of a human body that is alive, that person will shorly die after all the blood is out of his body.

Even if I stopped being a Witness, I would still abstain from blood. By most doctors, bloodless medicine is the preferred method because it is much safer than receiving blood. There is now many no-blood hospitals.
It brings to mind that case of the little girl, in Texas I think, she was dying and she was told she needed blood, her parents refuse because they were Jehovah's Witnesses. So the state took the parents to court and won. They forced the blood on this little girl and she died because her body rejected it.

Heres an article on Bloodless medicine
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20000108/art...

I don't know. Find out first why the Jewish allows it. There is a reason for everything. What do they do with the blood. The Jews may have prepared it in order to make it safe for use (example: sterilization). What if the blood is used and it killed instead of healed? What did Jesus say about it? Well forget that question. In those days and times there was no such thing as transfusion. I really think in those days if a person is losing a lot of blood and their heart couldn't keep up on the demand for more blood; sad to say they did die.

simple logical process.

1- bible says - avoid/ abstain from / dont mess with ===> blood.

2- Jehovah is the author of the bible.

3- he' s the one who made the rule.

4- we are his children, his witnesses, as we are the ONLY ones who carry our father's name

5- so, we obey him. we listen to his OLDEST son, jesus.

jewish doctrine does NOT allow blood. the interpreters give licence to it as they are no longer Jehovah's people. we are. if jews were still a part of israel, and they were still obeying the LAWS of the mosaic covenant, they would be doing weekly sacrifices, would not allow women to be so mouthy as many are, and would NOT permit kabala or homosex. both would be stoned to death.

as it is, though, jews are such by default. they can do as they wish. we will not tell THEM what to do. just let us obey Jehovah.
they can disobey and reap the whirlwind as they wish.

gramps

LAWSUITS. the wBS is in quite a pickle. They don't even have a Governing Body anymore but a group of Lawyers now. Changing the blood edict leaves them open to multimillion dollars in law suits from survivors of lost loved ones.

Acts 15:8,9

Abstain from blood.

Deuteronomy 12:23

the blood is the soul

They don't want another persons blood running through their veins, or anyone else's organs. They want to die as they were born.

Because they think they're the ones who are interpreting scripture correctly.

Because their WTBS organization misunderstand the Old Testament kosher laws

Jehovah's Witnesses can have blood transfusions. Just in parts.They are forbidden to do jumping jacks or jump rope after that because if the blood mixes it is a sin

JW is a cult.

there a weired bunch!