a question of blood

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For many weeks now I am reminded of what I don't like about the Jehovah Witness "truth".  One of those things is their beliefs on blood.

There are three main parts to the "blood" beliefs.

1) Blood is sacred to Jehovah.  It is life.  It can only be used to atonement of sins.  
Okay, I get it.  Blood is our special life force.  However, the Witnesses get blood tests and have surgeries.  In the surgeries they don't accept blood, but they lose blood I'm sure.  So according to Jehovah's word we must save the blood for him, but what about testing it (removing a set amount) and surgeries (in which loss of blood is eminent)?

2) Blood must not be eaten. 
Okay, again...makes sense.  But are we EATING blood when we get a transfusion?  It's not like we are being all vampire on the stuff.  And we are taking care of our bodies, which were given by Jehovah.  If He would be okay with testing the blood or surgeries to save our lives, why not blood to sustain our lives?

3) Blood must be properly disposed.
And as a society, we do properly bleed our animals.  I wonder if the Witnesses eat kosher or halal meat, which is blessed too.  Hell, why not do away with meat all together!

So are the rest of us "Christians" or "Jews" or "Muslims" totally missing this scripture in the Bible.  After all two of the three scriptures are in the Old Testament, Hebrew, or Tanak versions of the Bible.


Genesis 9:3-4; Leviticus 17:13-14; Acts 15:28-29 are the verses that Jehovah's Witnesses reference from when stating they won't take transfusions.  But in all honesty the scriptures only speak of EATING the blood.

Bonnie and I will be discussing more about this topic on Wednesday, but I will definitely be bringing up organ transplants.  If blood is an organ, and blood travels through organs...why do Jehovah's Witnesses accept organ donations?