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Is Taking a Blood Transfusion the Same As Eating Blood?

Since blood transfusions are not taking blood through the mouth how does this go against the Bible injunction? The Watchtower society offers two defenses to this: First, that a blood transfusion is nutrition to the body which makes it the same as eating blood. However, is blood a nutrient like food? Why is it that […]

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Should You Refuse a Blood Transfusion?

“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!” (Acts 15:28, 29) One […]