Can a Jehovah's witness accept a blood donation if it their own blood that's being used?

Question

my mother has a very rare blood type when she was going to have an operation the doctor got her to bank her own blood over a 6 month period before hand so they could use it to transfuse her if needed, my mum is not a jehovah's witness but could the same go for a jehovah's witness, is it just the use of someone Else's blood they object to.

Answer 1

JWs abstain from blood- Acts 15:28-29

Blood that is stored will lack nitric oxide.

The blood that is being transfused right now to everybody is lacking nitric oxide so as Dr Stamler said :

“It doesn't matter how much oxygen is being carried by red blood cells, it cannot get to the tissues that need it without nitric oxide," said Dr. Jonathan Stamler of Duke University, leader of one of the research groups.

Another recent news stated :

The transfusions are designed to improve the delivery of oxygen to the body's tissues.

But researchers found patients who received a transfusion had a three-fold increase in complications linked to lack of oxygen

The abstention for blood is not only for dietary reasons. If the prohibition is only for eating, that means a Christian can literally take a bath in a pool of blood, or the Egpytians at old times are right in “blood shedding” to cure their illnesses, etc. The Bible only tells us the proper use of blood, and one of those is for cleansing and forgiveness of sins, which was done by Jesus once and for all. Heb 9,10.

An egg white and egg yolk are still eggs. JWs believe that white blood cells and red blood cells, the major components of blood are still blood. But if you fractionalize those cells into each individual components, it is a personal decision for JWs whether to avoid those or not. Others reason that a fraction of the red/white blood cells are now proteins, or water, and proteins and water are not blood anymore so they can take it. Others feel that fractions of let's say red blood cells maybe is still blood or came from blood, so they don't take it. It is a personal decision whether to accept those fractionalized component.

The Bible doesn’t say abstain from nuclear bombs nor abstain from cannibalism, nor abstain from blood bathing but the underlying principles found in the Bible can help us determine that we have to abstain from those things.

The early Christians ate meat which are properly bled, but eventhough 100% of the blood wasn’t removed, they were still considered abstaining from blood.

Fornication is a sin, and if one committed it, that person needs sincere and true repentance and God will forgive him.

Do you think God will forgive you if you committed fornication and you are saying that fornication is NOT A SIN? And that it is okay to COMMIT FORNICATION when your life is in danger?

Now, if you don’t abstain from blood, and but you truly repented and admitted that it is a sin, then God will forgive you. But if you say that having blood transfusion is NOT A SIN, nor repented, do you think God will forgive you?

When you disobey God by having fornication or you ignore to “abstain from blood” and you WILLFULLY PRACTICE those sins, do you think you will be forgiven?

Heb 10:26-27 state “For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, 27 but [there is] a certain fearful expectation of judgment and [there is] a fiery jealousy that is going to consume those in opposition”

Jesus our greatest exampler remained OBEDIENT to God until his earthly death.

Acts 15:20 - but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29 - to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication

When did the practice of blood transfusion started? According to wikipedia.org that it started "The first historical attempt at blood transfusion was described by the 15th-century chronicler Stefano Infessura". So do you expect the Bible to explicitly speak against medical transfusion of blood during the 1st century when during that time it wasn’t practiced? Or have you ever thought that just quoting a GENERAL instruction, i.e., to “ABSTAIN from Blood” will suffice. How come in the Hebrew Scriptures it always state a SPECIFIC instruction to “do not EAT blood” but when it comes to the Greek Scriptures, it becomes a GENERAL instruction “abstain from blood” and NOT “abstain from eating/drinking blood”?

The question then is, when Acts 15 states “abstain from blood” is it only for eating and drinking blood? At that time, early Christians, understood that “abstaining from blood” means not eating and drinking it because blood transfusion is not being practiced. If it was being practiced at that time, the instruction in Acts 15 did not EXCLUDE "blood transfusion". The early Christians also understood that they won’t use blood for medical reasons, that’s why they didn’t use blood to cure epilepsy.

The point there is “eating and drinking blood” means the blood goes IN to your body. So what the Bible says is that we abstain from blood going IN our body. This means that you can use blood for testing, clean it, etc.

If you are allergic to nuts, the doctor will only say, “abstain from nuts”, that covers everything,  

Answer 2

Have a look about blood information website about Jehovah witness.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2...

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Answer 3

As I understand it, they are not allowed to use even their own blood.

Answer 4

ingenious...........use their own blood......well thats a good idea....anyway the watch tower people have alot of false doctrine and refusing blood transfusions based on a false interepatation of scripture is one of them....

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but i have heard that they allow the plasma only now...which is the main part of blood but not technically blood;;

ooohh the weird lengths people go to support their false  teachings