What does the Bible tell us about blood transfusions?
It is very interesting what the Bible tell us about blood and blood transfusions. Because the Bible is the word of God Almighty. And what we can learn in the Bible is to benefit us. We can read this in the Bible in Isaiah 48:17: "This is what Jehovah has said, your Repurchaser, the Holy One of Israel: “I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit [yourself], the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk."
The Bible is very, very clear about blood and blood transfusion. Let us read what the Bible say's about blood and blood transfusions in the Bible books Acts 15:19-20, 28-29, Genesis 9:3-4 and the Bible book of Leviticus 17:10-16. The best is we open our own Bible directly. Or we can read the Scriptures from the Bible about blood and blood transfusion also on this page.
What can we learn from the Bible book of Acts 15:19-20 about blood and blood transfusion?
Specially for Christians it is interesting what we can read in the Greek Scriptures, the so called New Testament, about blood and blood transfusions. The Bible, Acts 15:19-20: "Hence my decision is not to trouble those from the nations who are turning to God, 20 but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood." Notice, that the Bible is very clear about blood. When the Bible tell us to abstain from blood, it must mean any form of blood. This becomes more clear in a later Scripture of the Bible quoted on this page.
Are there alternatives to blood transfusion, which are better, more secure?
In the beginning of this page we could read in the Bible book of Isaiah, that Jehovah is a God, who is teaching to benefit ourselves. But now you may ask: "Are blood transfusions not necessary?". Then you may be astonished to learn some interesting information's about blood transfusion alternative treatments. Are blood transfusion alternative treatments really to benefit us? What benefit comes possibly from blood transfusion alternative treatments? Are true Christians accept alternative treatments for blood transfusions? Can every surgery be performed without a transfusion of blood?
A second Scriptures about blood, blood transfusion in the Greek Scripture of the Bible
A second Scripture in the Bible book of Acts about blood transfusion and blood we can read in the same chapter. The Bible, Acts 15:28-29: "For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to YOU, except these necessary things, 29 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!”" Again the Bible speaks about keep abstaining from blood. And we could read "carefully keep yourselves from these things".
Bible statements about blood starts with the first book of the Bible
Already in the first book of the Bible, in Genesis we can read a clear statement of the Bible about blood. Let us read the Bible in Genesis 9:3-4: "Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for YOU. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to YOU. 4 Only flesh with its soul—its blood—YOU must not eat."
Any sort of blood shows, that human blood is included. The Bible in Leviticus about blood
When we read in Genesis the command not to eat blood, we may ask: "Does this include human blood?" We can read the answer in the Bible book of Leviticus. Let us read the Bible, Leviticus 17:10-16: “‘As for any man of the house of Israel or some alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst who eats any sort of blood, I shall certainly set my face against the soul that is eating the blood, and I shall indeed cut him off from among his people. 11 For the soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for YOU to make atonement for YOUR souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul [in it]. 12 That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: “No soul of YOU must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst should eat blood.” 13 “‘As for any man of the sons of Israel or some alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst who in hunting catches a wild beast or a fowl that may be eaten, he must in that case pour its blood out and cover it with dust. 14 For the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood by the soul in it. Consequently I said to the sons of Israel: “YOU must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh, because the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it will be cut off.” 15 As for any soul that eats a body [already] dead or something torn by a wild beast, whether a native or an alien resident, he must in that case wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening; and he must be clean. 16 But if he will not wash them and will not bathe his flesh, he must then answer for his error.’”
We were able to read the answer, that any sort of blood is included. This must also include human blood. Because we can read in the Bible clearly "any sort of blood" (The Bible Leviticus 17:10). Tertullian (a writer about beliefs of early Christians) stated: “The interdict upon ‘blood’ we shall understand to be (an interdict) much more upon human blood.”—The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV, p. 86.
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