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Would you donate blood?

If not, why?

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MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M

Nope, due to religious reasons.

Cinnamon · 31-35, F

What are the religious reasons?

MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M

@starsslave: The blood is holy, according to the bible, and should never be consumed.

Genesis 9:4 Only flesh with its life—its blood—you must not eat.

Leviticus 17:10 “‘If any man of the house of Israel or any foreigner who is residing in your midst eats any sort of blood, I will certainly set my face against the one who is eating the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people

Leviticus 17:14
14 For the life of every sort of flesh is its blood, because the life is in it. Consequently, I said to the Israelites: “You must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh because the life of every sort of flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it will be cut off

Deuteronomy 12:23 Just be firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the flesh

Acts 15:28 For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things: 29 to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!

Cinnamon · 31-35, F

@MartinTheFirst: That's interesting. My Jewish friends are very careful about draining the blood out of meat before eating it, because of those very same verses, but they are fine with blood donation.

MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M

@starsslave: That is hypocrisy, what differs the intake of blood into their veins from eating it?

Also some of those verses are from the new testaments, jews dont have those.

Cinnamon · 31-35, F

@MartinTheFirst: You're right about not having the New Testament texts although in this case they seem to cover the same ground. I don't see how it's hypocritical! The texts say "eating". Receiving a blood transfusion isn't eating. I can see how you equate it as a form of consumption, but that isn't obvious. It seems like a matter of definition or interpretation.

MartinTheFirst · 22-25, M

@starsslave: I'd rather not take any chances. The blood is explained to be holy, and when it comes down to it, it doesnt matter in what way you consume blood, its all the same. All a sin.