Posted by Cygnus [Cygnus] on November 22, 1999 at 15:28:12 {k/.KBikg62xIIZ2NrMC6L4bdfUTIaI}:
In Reply to: Blood Transfusion posted by Friend on November 22, 1999 at 12:33:38:
More comments.
I'm surprised you didn't mention anything about blood components. A previous suggested article authored by you brought out the many changes that medical science has developed regarding the therapeutic benefits of blood components, and suggested that the WTS cannot be responsible for determing which methods are biblically justifiable and which are not.
Also, you wrote:
: As Christians we respect that we are instructed biblically to abstain from blood. (See Acts 15:28,29)
Contemporary Christians are not. 1st century Gentile Christians were (Cp. Acts 21:25). Any other suggestion or application requires stretching of the text.
: We also understand that that instruction to abstain from blood is a reaffirmation of that said to Noah after he and his family providentially survived the flood. (Gen. 9:1-17)
That would be an incorrect understanding. James never mentions Noah in Acts 15.
: Noah was told, “Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat.” Besides prohibiting the eating of blood. . .
Those words did not directly prohibit the eating of blood (although that interpretation may follow). It merely said that flesh with the blood may not be eaten. What, in turn, that means is subject to further interpretation.