Re: What the Bible Teaches About Blood Transfusions

Christ Rose <[email protected]> wrote in
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> What the Bible Teaches Regarding Blood Transfusions and the Command to
> Abstain from Blood
> 
> The Biblical Prohibition Specifically Forbids Eating Blood as Food
> 
> (1) "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I
> gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not
> eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood." (Genesis 9:3–4 ESV)
> God gave animal flesh to Noah and his descendants for food, but
> strictly forbade eating the flesh while the lifeblood was still in it.
> The context is unequivocally dietary consumption.
> 
> (2) "For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its
> life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat
> the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its
> blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off." (Leviticus 17:14 ESV)
> God repeatedly defines the infraction as eating the blood of an animal
> slain for food. The prohibition was placed upon taking the lifeblood 
> into the digestive tract.
> 
> (3) "For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you
> no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what 
> has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been 
> strangled, and from sexual immorality." (Acts 15:28–29 ESV)
> The Jerusalem Council addressed the Gentile believers regarding pagan 
> table practices and meat offered to idols. The abstention from blood
> and strangled meat preserved table fellowship among Jewish and Gentile
> Christians by avoiding pagan culinary practices.
> 
> Proposition: The Scriptural command to abstain from blood is strictly 
> and consistently directed against the ingestion and eating of blood as
> food. 
> 
> A Medical Transfusion is Not Digestion or Ingestion of Food
> 
> (1) "Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the 
> stomach and is expelled?" (Matthew 15:17 ESV)
> Our Lord defines the process of eating: food enters the mouth, passes 
> through the stomach, is digested for nourishment, and is eliminated.
> 
> (2) A blood transfusion does not enter the digestive system, is not 
> digested as nutrients, and does not feed the body. It is a cellular 
> tissue transfer directly into the circulatory system to sustain 
> oxygenation and preserve bodily life. The analogy comparing alcohol 
> infusion to a blood transfusion fails because alcohol is a drug 



Alcohol is not a drug.

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