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Hello friends, since Jehovah is the source of life(Psalm 36:9),he alone determines how life should be because as a loving God all his laws in the Bible are for our own good and they are not burdensome(Isaiah 48:17-18;1 John 5:3)Thus from the beginning,he has stated that the life of every human is in his blood.Thus, in Genesis 9:3-4 the bible states:"Every moving animal that is alive may serve asfood for you.As in the case of green vegetable,i do give it all to you.Only with its soul-its blood-you must not eat".
Further more the importance of this law was brought to the fore again by Jehovah when he was giving the nation of Israel its law as could be read in Leviticus 17:11-16.
Again after the death of Christ when the issue of circumcission arose amongst the first century Christians and while putting the matter to rest,the issue of blood was also stated in Acts 15;28-29 thus:"The holy Spirit and we ourselves have favoured adding no further burden to you except these necessary things,to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.if you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper,good health to you!"
Thus we can see that all thru human existence,Jehovah's law to abstain fro blood has never changed.Thus Jehovah's Witnesses value their life but not to the extent of disobeying Jehovah because disobeying Jehovah will only make us loose the life we are trying to save by taking in blood but our hope is also anchored on the fact that if we die due to the fact that we refuse blood trnsfusion in obeying Jehovah,our hope of ressurection is firm(Matthew 16:25)
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