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   From: none@none.con   
      
   On Jun 21, 2023, James wrote   
   (in article<8as59itbdf4066oib6qu8tiv91etniusg8@4ax.com>):   
      
   > Blood transfusions. For Christians?   
   >   
   > Blood transfusions. For Christians?   
   >   
   > Of course, most would say. That is a ridiculous question. If it will   
   > save a life, by all means, do it. But what if the Bible says no. Do   
   > you obey God or men?   
   >   
   > Believe it or not, the Egyptians did their form of blood transfusions.   
   > Thus the Jews (as slaves in Egypt) knew about such things. Yet they   
   > allowed the wording to cover ANY kind dealing with blood. Here is what   
   > the Bible says:   
   >   
   > -- New American Standard   
   > Acts 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from   
   > blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep   
   > yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell."   
   >   
   > To shorten it, it says:" ...abstain.. from blood..."   
   > But some may say, Acts 15:29 is talking about eating or drinking   
   > blood. Or not draining the blood out of the   
   > meat of a fresh kill, like was mentioned in the OT.   
   >   
   > Let's see what the Greek word for "abstain" means.Using Strong's   
   > Concordance, it says:   
   >   
   > "Strong's Ref. # 567   
   >   
   > Romanized apechomai   
   > Pronounced ap-ekh'-om-ahee   
   >   
   > middle voice (reflexively) of GSN0568; to hold oneself off, i.e.   
   > refrain:   
   >   
   > KJV--abstain."   
   >   
   > The writer of Acts is the physician Luke. Being a doctor, and full of   
   > Holy Spirit, he decided to use "abstain" instead of don't eat or drink   
   > blood. And a transfusion can be thought of as 'eating' blood. It is   
   > put into your body like an intravenously feeding does.   
   And this is where you err. You assign illogical ideations to eating. So when   
   you hypocrites accept the "eating" of hemoglobin or other things into you   
   blood system, you then contaminate your blood.   
      
   This is also how you err in so many things as you make up doctrines out of   
   your sinful thoughts.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)