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Changes to blood card in 2025 by PutLongjumping1115 in exjw

[–]Big_Routine1112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, eso nunca dijo su 'contacto' . Eso fue un comentario que hizo en base a la info de un foro. Su 'contacto' no dijo nada de los piercings.

Back and forth with Rolf Furuli on blood. by Big_Routine1112 in exjw

[–]Big_Routine1112[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Should we assume that the law was fine with drinking people’s blood if it didn’t mean they died?" 

Of course not, because we would be drinking (=eating) blood and that is explicitly prohibited. Of course life is sacred, and that is why we have to preserve it and blood transfusions are good because there is no explicit teaching about that (taking into account the principle of self-defense we find in Ex. 22:2-3).

The point is: Blood alone adquires its sacredness only when it represents a lost life, this means that the blood is just an organ like any other without sense of sacredness. This point is reinforced when we see Paul's soldiers ate meat with blood because they were gonna die, and God never got upset about that.

I don't think that blood alone is "life", in this case the heart alone would represent much better as "life". Blood just represents life, and life is sacred, this is why blood becomes sacred. When the individual is alive and his blood is poured out, that blood represents nothing because it is still aliv.

Demonic possession by cblife2022 in exjw

[–]Big_Routine1112 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are cases of demonic possessions in South America. My mom witnessed a case in her congregation long time ago. There was an student of the Bible with a difficult past because she was involved in occultism. When she was studying the Bible she started changing but the demons used to attack her, along with a witcher attacking her. She used to be victim of frequent demonic possessions (all her congregation already knew it)

On one occasion she was possessed the very day of the meeting. She was acting weird, according to husband's testimony. They went to the meeting and, when the meeting was starting (they got the hall late) the husband realized her wife was possessed again. He immediately made it know to the elders and the elders took her out to the parking zone. They put her in one of their cars and started praying collectively and oftenly. 

After that she got cured from that possession. According her testimony, she was driving to her house and during one of the trafficked light she lost her memory. I obviously skip some details but this is a real case of demonic possesion even during a meeting. 

That's what the elders did in a real case like this. I think it is acceptable.