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Gene Smalley and the Watchtower's Blood Transfusion confusion
Recent communication with a whistle-blower from Watchtower headquarters in Brooklyn who has been there many years, and is privy to certain information from their Legal Dept., reveals hitherto unknown secrets regarding the controversial blood transfusion doctrine among Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The Watchtower's ban on blood transfusions first appeared suddenly in 1945, in spite of the founder C.T. Russell’s statements that Biblical references (including those in the book of Acts ch. 15) to disapproval of the use of blood did not apply to modern Christians. (see The Watchtower, April 1, 1909, page 116, 117).
Why, then, did the Watchtower decide to ban the transfusing of blood, which has no relevance to the Old Testament law of prohibiting the eating of blood (because blood represented life)? After all, the primary purpose of the transfusing of blood is to SAVE LIVES, not to...
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