nPeace
Veteran Member
If JWs said blood is food, and they abstain from eating that particular food, and you should too. Do you believe blood is food? Then go eat your fill Penguin.Both deal with the issue of food. Both speak out against those who condemn others for what they eat.
Romans 14:1-6:
Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions. 2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
1 Timothy 4:1-5:
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings, 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared. 3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.
... So if a blood transfusion is "eating blood," then the Bible would suggest that JWs are wrong - and even deceived by "demonic teachings" and "the hypocrisy of liars" - for condemning blood transfusions and threatening its members with excommunication for getting them.
JWs don't say blood is food, any more than they say glass is food.
So if one believes that anything is food, as long as someone eats it, then I don't know what to say to such a person, because such a person would be beyond reason, imo.
The Bible condemns eating the blood, as it shows respect for life, and the sanctity of blood.
The Bible prohibits it's use outside of atonement.
It would also be a good health benefit to abstain from eating meat of a strangled animal.