Who Gets to Decide What God Has Forbidden Free Guide

FREE Complimentary Guide to Jehovah’s Witness No Blood: How the Watchtower Turned a Biblical Food Law into a Medical Ban

5 Questions About the Watchtower’s Blood Policy

If God’s law has not changed, why have the Watchtower’s rules about blood changed?

Jehovah’s Witnesses have long been taught that accepting a blood transfusion violates God’s command to abstain from blood. Yet the rules governing which blood components may be accepted have changed. Who decides where those lines are drawn?

This free PDF guide presents five questions to help readers examine the blood policy alongside Scripture. In clear, easy-to-share language, you’ll consider:

Whether the Bible equates a medical transfusion with eating blood.
What changing rules reveal about claims that the policy comes from God.
Who decided which blood components and fractions are permitted.
Whether the way God designed the human body supports those distinctions.
How to examine a religious interpretation while remaining loyal to God.

The guide is designed to help you start a thoughtful conversation with Jehovah’s Witness friends and family. Each question invites readers to consider the evidence for themselves.