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by Anonymous on January 7th, 2006

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Does the New Testament confirm the Jehovah's Witnesses belief that blood should not be used?

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  • by Perryman on January 17th, 2007

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    Yes it does at Acts 15:28,29.
    Here is the setting of the meeting where the disciples repeated God’s command on blood for his Christian followers of His Son.
    In 49 C.E. a question about circumcision was taken to the Christian governing council in Jerusalem. Some Jewish Christians had insisted that Gentiles must “get circumcised according to the custom of Moses.” But the basic issue was whether non-Jewish converts had to keep all “the law of Moses.” Acts 15:1, 5.
    At the council meeting Peter, Paul and Barnabas reported what God did through them. Gentile converts had been accepted on the basis of faith without first conforming to the Mosaic law’s regulations. Peter reasoned that there was no need to try to insist that Gentiles keep a law code that even the Jews could not keep. Then the council considered Amos 9:11, 12, which contained an inspired indication that God would accept people of the nations. It was evident that Gentiles would not have to get circumcised and conform to the law of Moses before they could become Christians. (Acts 15:6-18) The disciple James, who appears to have been the chairman, said:
    “My decision is not to trouble those from the nations who are turning to God, but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. For from ancient times Moses has had in city after city those who preach him, because he is read aloud in the synagogues on every sabbath.” (Acts 15:19-21) The council agreed, their written decision being:

    “The holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to [Gentiles], except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.”—Acts 15:28, 29.

    Jehovah’s dealings through Peter, Paul and Barnabas and the decision of the Jerusalem council indicated that a Gentile convert did not have to get circumcised or try to keep the Mosaic law. And Paul’s inspired writings repeatedly stated this fact.
    (Col. 2:13-17; Gal. 3:23-25; Rom. 6:14)
    Still, reading Moses’ writings revealed the continuing need to avoid blood, things strangled, fornication and things sacrificed to idols. The fact that Moses wrote down this information under the inspiration of holy spirit gave additional force to the Jerusalem council’s comment: “Holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things.”—Acts 15:28.

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