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ONE OF THE THREE "WITNESS BEARERS" "It is the decision of the Holy Spirit, and our decision, to lay no further burden upon you beyond these essentials: you are to abstain* from meat that has been offered to idols, from blood,* from anything that has been strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves free from these things you will be doing right." (Acts 15:28,29 NEB). "As for the gentile converts, we sent them our decision that they must abstain* from meat that has been offered to idols, from blood,* from anything that has been strangled, and from fornication." (Acts 21:25 NEB).
"This is he who came with water and blood:
Jesus Christ. He came, not by water alone, but by water and
blood; and there is the Spirit to bear witness,
because the Spirit is truth. For there are three
witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood,
and these three are in agreement. We accept human testimony, but surely Divine
testimony is stronger, and this three-fold testimony is indeed that of God
Himself, the witness He has borne to His Son. He who believes in the Son of God
has this testimony in his own heart, but he who
disbelieves God, makes Him out to be a liar, by refusing to accept God's own
witness to His Son. The witness is this: that God has given us
eternal life, and that this life is found in His Son. He who possesses the Son
has life indeed; he who does not possess the Son of God has not that life."
(1 John 5:6 All these scriptures were written by apostles of Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. Those who partake of blood by ingesting it or taking it intravenously (into a vein) to prolong their mortal lives, are demonstrating they do not believe the testimony of God that He has offered us eternal life through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. Because such ones "make Him out to be a liar", resurrection to eternal life after their earthly deaths is forbidden. This same Judgement also falls upon those guilty of administering blood to others, because they too are making God out to be a liar. Those partaking of blood taken from another human, by ingestion or transfusion (whether in part or complete transfusion), are giving evidence to God through the corruption of one of the three "witness bearers" that they refuse to obey His instruction through apostles of The Christ, and so are cut off from eternal life in the heavenly paradise of God. (Read: 1 John 5:6-12 NWT).
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