"Jehovah's Witnesses and the Question of Blood" on PDF?

by pirata 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  pirata

  Just wondering if anyone has, or knows where to get, "Jehovah's Witnesses and the Question of Blood" Booklet on PDF.

  Thanks, pirata
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  pirata

  Ah, never mind. Found it in the Watchtower Library. I was looking under brochures, but should have been looking under booklets.
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  wobble

  That is the really old booklet from the early sixties isn't it ?

  If you can be bothered to read it, I would be interested to see the main reasons they had back then for refusing blood, was it all based on Acts 15 ? And was the argument that you were feeding on the blood ?
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  cofty

  Could you see if you can find the quote about there being a "measure of guilt" for eating the blood of an animal found already dead based on Lev11:38,39 please?
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  Mad Sweeney

  If you're looking for details on how the doctrine has changed, ajwrb.org has a bunch of stuff.
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  pirata

  @wobble:

  It's the 1977 Booklet. It has this unique explanation as one of the reasons not to take a transfusion (organ transplants were banned from 1967 to 1980), also somewhat refute's the "eating" argument by acknowledging it's essentially an organ tansplant:

  *** bq p. 41 par. 111 Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Question of Blood ***

  111 Consequently, whether having religious objections to blood transfusions or not, many a person might decline blood simply because it is essentially an organ transplant that at best is only partially compatible with his own blood.

  @cofty:

  *** bq p. 9 par. 20 Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Question of Blood ***

  20 For an Israelite to show disregard for life as represented by the blood was viewed as a most serious wrong. The person deliberately disregarding this law about blood was to be “cut off,” executed. (Leviticus 7:26, 27; Numbers 15:30, 31) A measure of guilt resulted even from eating the blood-containing flesh of an animal that died of itself or that was killed by a wild beast.—Leviticus 17:15, 16; compare Leviticus 5:3; 11:39.

  @Mad Sweeney:

  Thanks, I'll check it out.