Giving or receiving blood

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.

Dude653

Senior Member
Mar 19, 2011
12,312
1,039
113
#1
There are some denominations such as Jehovah's Witness who have an aversion to giving or receiving blood. I have search the Bible for some foundation on this but have found none.
One day a lady in my church was sharing a "testimony" about how she had to have surgery and the doctor advised her that she would need a blood transfusion. The doctor told her that was a high probability that she would die without the blood transfusion. So she's telling us how she doesn't believe in taking blood transfusions and that she was going to have "faith"...
Fortunately she survived but I'm sitting my seat thinking that was really stupid. God gave us doctors for a reason so their advice should be heeded.
I'm imagining someone dying from a similar circumstance and God says....well duh... what part of the doctor's instructions did you not understand?
 

OneFaith

Senior Member
Sep 5, 2016
2,270
369
83
#2
There are some denominations such as Jehovah's Witness who have an aversion to giving or receiving blood. I have search the Bible for some foundation on this but have found none.
One day a lady in my church was sharing a "testimony" about how she had to have surgery and the doctor advised her that she would need a blood transfusion. The doctor told her that was a high probability that she would die without the blood transfusion. So she's telling us how she doesn't believe in taking blood transfusions and that she was going to have "faith"...
Fortunately she survived but I'm sitting my seat thinking that was really stupid. God gave us doctors for a reason so their advice should be heeded.
I'm imagining someone dying from a similar circumstance and God says....well duh... what part of the doctor's instructions did you not understand?
Exactly. Your body is not your soul- you are in your body, and someday you will come out. What keeps you physically alive is blood. The Bible says the life is in the blood. WWJD (what would Jesus do?) Jesus shared His blood with us in order to keep us alive. Are we not to follow His example? We are- even to the point of death. "Greater love has no one than this; that he give up his life for his friends." If you can save another's life without having to give up your own, that's awesome, and that's loving. "He who does not love does not know God- because God is love.

Here's the hang up that religious people trip over. In Old Testament times things were done physically that are now done spiritually in the New Testament. It was important in the Old Testament to physically keep the bloodline to Christ pure. Because the physical representations of spiritual things had to be precise- Abraham's family tree, the tabernacle that represented the layout of the spiritual realm, the perfectness of the physical lamb that represented Christ. But now there is no longer need for perfect physical representation, because what was once only represented by example is actually here. It's like if you have a pattern to sew a shirt, and the shirt is finished, you no longer need the pattern. Now if you could use a piece of that old pattern to save a life, why wouldn't you?
 

Dude653

Senior Member
Mar 19, 2011
12,312
1,039
113
#3
The fact that people would actually risk their lives over this it's kind of sad. This is not biblical. It's just superstitious nonsense
 

notuptome

Senior Member
May 17, 2013
15,050
2,538
113
#4
I have donated over 21 gallons of blood. Great thing about giving blood is that everybody has the same color blood. No ethnic discrimination in blood donation.

Those being treated fro cancers are greatly aided by blood donations especially platelet donations.

Young healthy donors are getting harder and harder to find in the donor pool. Gods judgment perhaps or just a call to service.

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 

Zen

Senior Member
Sep 11, 2015
752
16
18
#5
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

So, in O.T. and N.T. you're not allowed to eat blood, but in the 21st century it's completely fine to have someone else give you their blood for inside you?

When was blood transfusion invented?

1628 English physician William Harvey discovers the circulation of blood. Shortly afterward, the earliest known blood transfusion is attempted. 1665 The first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in England: Physician Richard Lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.
Gross. So before 1628 everything was terrible and backwards, but after that, things really brightened up? Everything is so progressive now that we have a stranger's blood in our veins.

Fortunately she survived but I'm sitting my seat thinking that was really stupid. God gave us doctors for a reason so their advice should be heeded.
What can a doctor do to heal that God can't? And why do wicked and perverted people become doctors? Why are some doctors sodomites? Why are some doctors satanic? Maybe this perverted world of Babylon wasn't made by God?


Was this fine too? Because it was a doctor who said it was fine. Must be from God, right? What about trans-humanism? Doctors are involved in trans-humanism, so it must be from God?
 

Dude653

Senior Member
Mar 19, 2011
12,312
1,039
113
#6
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

So, in O.T. and N.T. you're not allowed to eat blood, but in the 21st century it's completely fine to have someone else give you their blood for inside you?

When was blood transfusion invented?



Gross. So before 1628 everything was terrible and backwards, but after that, things really brightened up? Everything is so progressive now that we have a stranger's blood in our veins.



What can a doctor do to heal that God can't? And why do wicked and perverted people become doctors? Why are some doctors sodomites? Why are some doctors satanic? Maybe this perverted world of Babylon wasn't made by God?


Was this fine too? Because it was a doctor who said it was fine. Must be from God, right? What about trans-humanism? Doctors are involved in trans-humanism, so it must be from God?
I reiterate. God gave us doctors for a reason. There is no biblical justification for this. It's just superstitious nonsense
 

Zen

Senior Member
Sep 11, 2015
752
16
18
#7
I reiterate. God gave us doctors for a reason. There is no biblical justification for this. It's just superstitious nonsense
OK, then get a body transplant, sickle cell blood, designer DNA and robotic implants.
 

blue_ladybug

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2014
70,862
9,581
113
#8
Seven years ago, two weeks before I found out I had uterine cancer, I had to go into the hospital and have FOUR blood transfusions back to back. I was in there for 2 days. My wickedly heavy periods had left me severely anemic, extremely room-spinning dizzy and constantly nauseous. I HATE doctors, but my brother and sister came down here and convinced me to go to the hospital. The doctors said that if I'd waited another day or two, my organs would all have shut down because my iron count was around 40 or so, and normal range is anywhere between 50-150..

If it were not for those blood transfusions and the person/ people who donated it, I would be dead today and that's a fact..
 

Kavik

Senior Member
Mar 25, 2017
785
157
43
#9
To reiterate what others said - superstitious nonsense coupled with fear (what if the person has something and I get it because of the transfusion) and even ethnocentrism, religiocentrism, and racism (I'm a white, fill-in-the-blank-religion, of English descent, I don't want a white, fill-in-the-blank-religion-different from yours, Frenchman's blood coursing through my veins!). I suspect most people have a lesser fear over giving blood than receiving blood.
 

blue_ladybug

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2014
70,862
9,581
113
#10
The blood that people donate is screened and filtered many times over to make sure that it has no disease in it..The probability of getting tainted blood from a transfusion is probably very minimal.. And a medical history/ workup is done on the donator, pre-donation..


To reiterate what others said - superstitious nonsense coupled with fear (what if the person has something and I get it because of the transfusion) and even ethnocentrism, religiocentrism, and racism (I'm a white, fill-in-the-blank-religion, of English descent, I don't want a white, fill-in-the-blank-religion-different from yours, Frenchman's blood coursing through my veins!). I suspect most people have a lesser fear over giving blood than receiving blood.
 

Magenta

Senior Member
Jul 3, 2015
55,249
25,719
113
#11
The life of the flesh is in the blood. The flesh counts for nothing, and doctors are often wrong. LOL @ having your head cut off and attached to another body. Yeah, doctors! It was a doctor who believes this can be successfully done. Such stupidity is mind boggling.
 

Magenta

Senior Member
Jul 3, 2015
55,249
25,719
113
#12
The blood that people donate is screened and filtered many times over to make sure that it has no disease in it..The probability of getting tainted blood from a transfusion is probably very minimal.. And a medical history/ workup is done on the donator, pre-donation..
Hep C was a known factor for years before they started screening for it and hospitals gave Hep C tainted blood to many people before they changed their outdated practice.
 
Dec 12, 2013
46,515
20,395
113
#13
I have no problem with transfusions....my son has had a few.....I also agree...with the OP..........
 

Zen

Senior Member
Sep 11, 2015
752
16
18
#14
The life of the flesh is in the blood. The flesh counts for nothing, and doctors are often wrong. LOL @ having your head cut off and attached to another body. Yeah, doctors! It was a doctor who believes this can be successfully done. Such stupidity is mind boggling.
Transgender is a medical diagnosis now. Doctors agree you should give little children hormone replacement therapy. According to these people, doctors are from God, therefore transgenderism and sodomy are fine.

Can you believe what people are advocating?

A doctor comes up with something gross? Trust them, they are a doctor.

 
Feb 28, 2016
11,311
2,972
113
#15
11TIM. 3:1.
This know also, that in the 'last days' perilous times shall come.

JAMES 5:3-4-5-6-7-8-9.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you,
and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back
by fraud, crieth:
and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of The Lord of Sabaoth.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts,
as in a day of slaughter.

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of The Lord.
Behold, the Husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it,
until He receive The Early and Latter Rain.

Be you also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of The Lord draweth nigh.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold,
The Judge stands before The Door.
 
May 13, 2017
2,359
27
0
#16
There are some denominations such as Jehovah's Witness who have an aversion to giving or receiving blood. I have search the Bible for some foundation on this but have found none.
One day a lady in my church was sharing a "testimony" about how she had to have surgery and the doctor advised her that she would need a blood transfusion. The doctor told her that was a high probability that she would die without the blood transfusion. So she's telling us how she doesn't believe in taking blood transfusions and that she was going to have "faith"...
Fortunately she survived but I'm sitting my seat thinking that was really stupid. God gave us doctors for a reason so their advice should be heeded.
I'm imagining someone dying from a similar circumstance and God says....well duh... what part of the doctor's instructions did you not understand?
The JWs say that to take a transfusion of blood is 'consuming' blood which is forbidden. Very forbidden. Ok but the person is Not consuming it. Consume according to the dictionary is to eat it. The bible says it the same way. Don't eat blood. Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:14; This is interesting Here it mentions eating blood and associates it with enchantments. Leviticus 19:26; There are more Dig the rest up yourself. LOL Its good for ya.
 
J

jaybird88

Guest
#17
The JWs say that to take a transfusion of blood is 'consuming' blood which is forbidden. Very forbidden. Ok but the person is Not consuming it. Consume according to the dictionary is to eat it. The bible says it the same way. Don't eat blood. Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:14; This is interesting Here it mentions eating blood and associates it with enchantments. Leviticus 19:26; There are more Dig the rest up yourself. LOL Its good for ya.
the life is in the blood and thats why you dont mix it with others. the dark belief systems, Canaanites, Aztecs, they ate people and they did it to get that life into them.
 

Magenta

Senior Member
Jul 3, 2015
55,249
25,719
113
#18
the life is in the blood and thats why you dont mix it with others. the dark belief systems, Canaanites, Aztecs, they ate people and they did it to get that life into them.
Hey Jay. Dead people's blood... ugh. The life of the flesh is in the blood, but it is the life of the Spirit we need, for the flesh counts for nothing. Dust to dust.


 

OneFaith

Senior Member
Sep 5, 2016
2,270
369
83
#19
the life is in the blood and thats why you dont mix it with others. the dark belief systems, Canaanites, Aztecs, they ate people and they did it to get that life into them.
A husband and his wife's blood mixes together to make a child. Not to mention other bodily fluids on a constant basis. But in the case of a prostitute, they are mixing many different fluids on a constant basis, and not from clean and proper people- that's where disease comes in.

But they screen the blood donated to make sure it is free of disease and that it's healthy blood. If I needed ongoing transfusions I would hope they were from the same donor- like a family member. But if it came down to tranfustions or die, I'd like to save my life.

No doubt there were evil people who drank blood and or were canables. I'm sure God punished them with diseases. But in a clean, proper setting, under a doctor's care, there is nothing wrong with doing this to save a life.
 
M

Miri

Guest
#20
Jesus gave/shed his blood to give us eternal life, which we must receive for it
to work.

Why wouldnt we give/receive earthy blood to save our bodies.