Have you done any research on blood transfusions at all to see if they are safe and effective medically speaking?
Sure there can be complications when doing something like that, but it is needed to save life.
A blood transfusion is a routine medical procedure in which donated blood is provided to you through a narrow tube placed within a vein in your arm.
This potentially life-saving procedure can help replace blood lost due to surgery or injury. A blood transfusion also can help if an illness prevents your body from making blood or some of your blood's components correctly.
Blood transfusions usually occur without complications. When complications do occur, they're typically mild.
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Blood transfusion - Mayo Clinic
Don't you think that if they could use a completely uncomplicated alternative that they would do that?
How the blood is taken into the body is irrelevant. Blood transfusions were unknown in bible times.
Yes, which is most likely why it was not relevant in the bible. Im pretty convinced that the reason this was added to the bible is due to some health issues, that maybe they figured out that blood, when consumed could cause some issues or whatever. Which would explain why it was important that slaughtering animals were done in a correct way.
Also why this thing is pretty much only mentioned in regards to how to slaughter and eat animals. Besides the exception of some rituals.
God would have known that we would eventually reach a stage where transfusions would be used to save lives, So if knew that, then they could easily have added a verse saying "X. You shall not share blood".
If an alcoholic is told by their doctor to abstain from alcohol, should he simply stop drinking it and transfuse it directly into his bloodstream because that is where it ends up, to be processed by his liver.
Well that is not the same is it. The reason is that being an alcoholic comes with a lot of other health and social issues. The doctor can't force a person not to drink, if they want to do it. But he can refuse and most likely will do that, to inject alcohol into the blood stream of a person. Not even sure you could survive that.
So medication have been developed to help people that want to stop drinking. But in regards to blood transfusions, this might be needed in order to save someones life that have been in an accident or whatever, where there is no time to waste.
Listen for the words "morbidity" and "mortality" in relation to the use of blood transfusions. Less than 12% of blood transfusions administered were actually considered to be beneficial.
I can't say whether or not, blood transfusions are being overused, which is what I understand with what they are saying, meaning that its sort of like when antibiotics, I think it is, that are being handed out as if it were candy, causing it to loose its effectiveness. But in this case they might do it, because its common practice rather than, if it is needed in a specific case. So I have no issue with that, as it make sense to not do things if they are not needed and especially if it can cause more harm than good, if used incorrectly.
However looking at their own guidelines for blood transfusions, they do seem to agree with what
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research say, that they do not consider the risk especially high, when you look at what they write.
What are the risks?
People who have blood transfusions during surgery may be more likely to experience negative outcomes such as wound infections and delayed recovery. Because the donor blood is not your own blood, your body’s immune system responds to the foreign blood much in the same way it would respond to an organ transplant.
Reactions can include:
- Fever and chills: These are more common in platelet transfusions than red blood cell transfusions.
- Mild allergy: About 1% – 3% of patients experience some form of treatable allergic reaction, such as a rash.
- Severe allergic reaction: This can include loss of consciousness, shock and cardiac arrest among other symptoms. This type of severe reaction is much more rare, occurring in less than one in 20,000 blood transfusions.
- Acute or delayed haemolytic reaction: This is very rare since it occurs if the donor blood type doesn’t match your blood type, or if you receive the wrong blood. For this reason you should always be asked to confirm your identity before receiving a transfusion. This type of reaction is more common in people who have had a previous transfusion.
- Lung injury: An acute reaction that occurs in about 1 in 10,000 transfusions.
- Too much iron: This is more likely if you have had many blood transfusions.
- Septic reaction: these reactions are very rare but can be serious. Septic reactions occur when blood components have been contaminated with bacteria.
https://www.blood.gov.au/system/files/documents/Guide-to-blood-transfusions-factsheet-AMENDED.PDF
Nonsense. To "abstain" means what in your dictionary? (Acts 15:19; 28-29)
As I said, when read out of context with the rest.
Acts 15:29
29 to keep away from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will do well. Goodbye."
So we start with:
"food sacrificed to idols" - So this refer to food that have been sacrificed to some other godly or false being. So you stay away from that.
"from blood" - Seems weird to throw this into to middle of these food guidelines, if it didn't relate to consuming it. but will get back to why that is the case.
"from anything strangled" - This refer to animals/meat that have not been probably drained from blood.
Lets try to get some context into this and some perspective.
Leviticus 7:26
26 You are not to eat any form of blood in any of your dwellings, whether it's from birds or animals.
Eating it
Leviticus 17:14
14 because the life of any flesh is the blood itself. Therefore I'm saying to the Israelis that the blood of any flesh is not to be eaten, because the life of any flesh is in its blood. Anyone who eats of it is to be eliminated from contact with his people.
Eating it.
Genesis 9:4
4 However, you are not to eat meat with its life—that is, its blood—in it!
Eating it.
Ezekiel 33:25
25 "So tell them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "You keep eating flesh along with its blood, you keep looking to your idols, and you keep shedding blood, and you're going to take possession of the land?
Eating it, later goes on how he will punish them for doing these things.
Deuteronomy 12:16
16 Only, you must not consume the blood; instead, pour it out on the ground as you would water.
Eating it
Deuteronomy 12:23-24
23 Only be sure to refrain from eating blood, because blood is the source of life and you must not consume blood with the meat.
24 You must not consume it; instead, pour it on the ground as you would water.
Eating it.
Now with that in mind, is it likely that what meant in acts:
Acts 15:29
29 to keep away from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will do well. Goodbye."
Could refer to eating it as well? Hench the fact that it is written among all the other food guidelines?