Originally posted by robbie carrobie[1] How many heart surgery patients who haven't received a blood transfusion die during the first 30 days of hospitalization? [2] How many heart surgery patients would have died if they hadn't received the blood transfusions you mentioned?
Heart surgery patients are twice as likely to die during the first 30 days of hospitalization if they receive a blood transfusion
Originally posted by galveston75As for Dr Américo Valério's comments in 1961 about blood ~ as quoted in the "Watchtower" magazine ~ Do you agree that they sound a bit like they are drawn from non-Christian mysticism and come across rather like pagan-like superstition?
Oh I forgot, abstain now has a different meaning, not in the Bible but it does in your heart with the lack of faith in God's knowledge with that command on blood and his promise of a resurrection. That means nothing, right?
Originally posted by robbie carrobie[1] How many of these 'may-have-been-millions' died despite having blood transfusions as opposed to having died because of the blood transfusions they had? [2] Within how many years of having their blood transfusions did the deceased have to die in order to be counted among the 'may-have-been-millions'?
Blood Transfusions May Have Killed Millions
Originally posted by menace71No blood as God says.......
Yes I would make a decision on if a child lives if God put that power and choice into my hands you better believe it .....I would chose to give that child life every time ...........So G-Man let's flip that around a child is sure to die within the hour if not given a blood transfusion to sustain their life and you alone have the power to allow the blood tra ...[text shortened]... ives say No and the child dies !! ( Hopefully you are never faced with that decision )
Manny
Originally posted by menace71Hummm don't think I said that but if I did please show me. What I did say is that blood has been and still is eaten as food in many parts of the world. I can past many articles if you need proof.
A Blood Transfusion is not food !!!!!
Manny
My point about Abraham a few pages ago was about his faith in God he had for something he did not understand and probably every fiber in his body fought against and that was obeying his God when God commanded him to kill his son by his own hands.
Who here including you could do that? I get the impression by the answers given so far that none here would but instead would show their lack of faith in the one they say is their God but as the Bible says "prove false to it's power".
Many of God's faithful followers of old did not understand why they were asked to do something they probably didn't want to do or flat out disagreed with. But these are the ones we say we admire but yet when it comes down to it, we fall short and turn our backs on God's commands such as "abstaining from blood".
Do you think even one of the JW's wants their child or wife are mother to die from not taking a transfusion? Hardly. But we have "faith" in God's wisdom and more then that have faith in the resurrection he says will happen.
"Faith" is something I see very little of here from the responces given. You can't pick and choose what you want to be faithful in. There has to be faith in all things.
Jesus said: "The person faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and the person unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.”
Originally posted by galveston75No amount of empirical evidence its seems is enough to convince, oh well.
Hummm don't think I said that but if I did please show me. What I did say is that blood has been and still is eaten as food in many parts of the world. I can past many articles if you need proof.
My point about Abraham a few pages ago was about his faith in God he had for something he did not understand and probably every fiber in his body fought aga ...[text shortened]... faithful also in much, and the person unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.”