Hephzibah wrote:
Quote:Quote all you want talkactive. The question is are you LIVING what you believe? What story is YOUR life telling?
Hephzibah. I think your horses have runaway with you!
It seems for me that you totally have missed the thread here, where Neo informed us that his skin was mighty thick and not to forget he would be willing to, for himself and maybe mostly his beloved ones, make a decision based at doctrines, when it comes to the question of life and death situation, where medical use of blood will be involved, which he based at the Watchtowers illogical teachings, both seen in the light of what the Bible tells us and what comes forth from medical experts.
Doctor S started the thread.
Quote:Would you, Neo, let your child die if a blood transfusion was the only method that might save his/her life?
This is obviously not an attack, but it has been puzzling me how you might rationalize this.
Nero wrote:
Quote:Folks. Doc and I get along just fine and you probably know by now that my skin is mighty thick. The blood issue is one widely associated with Jehovah's Witnesses and I see no reason to sidestep it simply because it arouses great emotion. To answer a question posed earlier, allow me to quote from a Watchtower publication:
Quote:And, regardless of the medical experts, I would answer yes to refusing a blood transfusion for myself or any of my dependents (who are now well past the age of majority)
Bold added.
It seems also for me that you are totally unfamiliar with the Watchtower Society's flippering teachings in question of medicine, organs and the blood.
In your profile you mentioned that you are a Christian, what does that means to you?
For me it means to look at our head of the Christian beliefs, Jesus, even before he became Christ. When we look at his example in Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and condemned the Scribes and the Pharisees, especially in Matthew, whole Chapter 23 especially versus 23 it seems for me, among others also to fit perfect at the Watchtower Society today, that's what it all about for me, not to blame Neo or anybody else personally, but to make him thinking whether its his own decisions, or he let's the Watchtower do the thinking for him.
So I take the liberty to say, that you have misunderstood me totally, it is not a question to blame anybody personally, which Jesus never did, but to, among other, follow the Bibles recommendations in Hezekiah 3:18-22: That was omong other the rason for quoting from ephesians, that the Bible warn us to not be associated!
King James.
3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
3:21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
The issue is to get people to think, what they later decide, for themselves is their own responsibility, Galatians 6:5, but they also are convinced, so much that The Watchtower Society is Gods chosen channel and all what comes from them are food in proper time, which in question of the medical use of blood cost thousands of thousands of children's life.
It seems for me that you have addressed your label to the wrong person!
The question is are you crossing your arms, when you obviously are aware that an organisations doctrines leads to unnecessary death casualties, due to that we shall love each other as stated in Romans 13:8. will it not be to love our nightbour, when we warn them from wicked and evil organisations doctrines?
PS.
Maybe you better understand how people in general act by reading this quote:
Dear folks,
Please wakeup.
The WTB&TS is a Multi-Million (Billion) Dollar worldwide publishing company.
When the issue of blood is brought up in the 'Bethel' boardrooms, there are no Bibles in the room. Only Lawyers. Accountants. Tax 'Analyists'.
Laying out in front of them on printed page they have reports. Projections. Budgets. 'Law' reviews.
They decide.
They tell the "GB".
The GB tells the Writing Committee.
The Writing Committee 'translates' it into 'Witnesspeak'.
It goes to press.
At the Kingdom Hall, Jane picks up the latest AWAKE! She's pleased to see her 'food at the proper time'.
She reads the article on Blood.
She makes a decision for herself and her young son concerning 'Gods view of Blood' based upon what she has read from the source that she trusts.
Almighty God JEHOVAH, in Heaven, patiently waits for the right time in which to judge the evil men that began all this.
Your Brother,
PropMin.