Post by ResLight on Jun 20, 2014 14:23:10 GMT -5
One has made some claims concerning Russell regarding blood transfusions in the comments at:
Jehovah’s Witness girl saved by court
Our comment was:
C. T. Russell himself never spoke a word against taking blood transfusions. If one is claiming to be a “follower” of C. T. Russell, that one is in self-contradiction, since Russell taught that one should only follow Christ. If however, by “C. T. Russell’s followers”, the Bible Students are meant, Bible Students do not assert that it is against God’s commandments to take blood transfusions. If by “C. T. Russell’s followers”, the Jehovah’s Witnesses are meant, Russell was never the member of such a authoritarian organization, and the JWs have rejected the core teachings of Russell on the atonement.
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The claim was made:
C.T. Russell, himself, taught that sin (or the urge to sin, heard it both ways) is in the blood,
See the responses I gave at:
ctr.rlbible.com/?p=3051
Jehovah’s Witness girl saved by court
Our comment was:
C. T. Russell himself never spoke a word against taking blood transfusions. If one is claiming to be a “follower” of C. T. Russell, that one is in self-contradiction, since Russell taught that one should only follow Christ. If however, by “C. T. Russell’s followers”, the Bible Students are meant, Bible Students do not assert that it is against God’s commandments to take blood transfusions. If by “C. T. Russell’s followers”, the Jehovah’s Witnesses are meant, Russell was never the member of such a authoritarian organization, and the JWs have rejected the core teachings of Russell on the atonement.
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The claim was made:
C.T. Russell, himself, taught that sin (or the urge to sin, heard it both ways) is in the blood,
See the responses I gave at:
ctr.rlbible.com/?p=3051
