When it comes to quoting the Bible (as is also the case with most other sources) the content is often misleading when we neglect to take into account the context. And when the Bible is quoted by the Watchtower — an organization notorious for twisting the words of others — context is not only important,… Continue reading The Jehovah’s Witness Blood Issue: Resolved! Part 3: Context, Context, Context!
While continuing to forbid transfusions of whole blood, the Watchtower currently allows Jehovah’s Witnesses to transfuse into their veins what they call “blood fractions.” By this they mean blood “components” (red cells, white cells, platelets, and plasma) that have been “fractionated” into still smaller units. It hasn’t always been so. The Watchtower’s original blood-ban forbade… Continue reading The Jehovah’s Witness Blood Issue: Resolved! Part 4: Fractions and Kosher Cows
Here we are at part five of our examination of the Watchtower’s assumptions about blood. (What? You didn’t read the previous parts? Here’s a link to part one.) Even if you have accepted all of their assumptions thus far, it still doesn’t justify your withholding a blood transfusion from your children or yourself. Why? Because… Continue reading The Jehovah’s Witness Blood Issue: Resolved! Part 5: Life Over Law!
An implied assumption of the Watchtower’s ban on blood transfusions is that Law takes precedence over Love. Let’s take the example of a mother whose eight year-old daughter has been hit by a car and is suffering internal bleeding. The massive loss of blood needs to be immediately replaced by a whole-blood transfusion. The love… Continue reading The Jehovah’s Witness Blood Issue: Resolved! Part 6: Love over Law!
First a bit of Nonsense for your amusement: The blood in any person is in reality the person himself… The poisons that produce the impulse to commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood… Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes – these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion.” —Watchtower… Continue reading The Jehovah’s Witness Blood Issue: Resolved! Part 7: Sense Over Nonsense!
At the time of this writing, an estimated 34,104 Witnesses have needlessly died due to the Watchtower’s blood policies since 1961. Who is responsible for those deaths? Certainly the Governing Body takes no responsibility. Looking back, there never was an apology or even a admission of wrong on their part when their former rules cost… Continue reading The Jehovah’s Witness Blood Issue: Resolved! Part 8: Taking Responsibility
As shown in the quotes above, in the February, 2017 Watchtower article, “Who Is Leading God’s People Today?” the Governing Body admits to being error-prone and providing the wrong direction. Still, they claim to be the sole representatives of Jesus on earth, as his “faithful and discreet slave” to whom we owe our unquestioning obedience… Continue reading Examining the Case FOR the Faithful & Discreet Slave!
Part One (of three). You have the truth, but no one will listen to you because the authorities they trust have told them that you are a wicked liar in league with the devil. What do you do? How can you break through that wall of prejudice that has been erected against you and your… Continue reading A Jehovah’s Witness Dilemma
This is part two of a three-part series. Please read part one first, if you haven’t already. In Part One we saw how the Watchtower has repeatedly stated that people must examine both sides of an issue in order to arrive at the truth. We saw how people need to do this in spite of… Continue reading A Jehovah’s Witness Dilemma Part Two
See the Watchtower crumble to dust under the weight of its own words! This is part three of a three-part article. If you haven’t done so yet, please read parts one and two first. In this, our final chapter, we’re going to get serious and determine once and for all who is the liar. If… Continue reading A Jehovah’s Witness Dilemma Part Three