Blood-Vital for Life

How can blood save your life?  This no doubt is of interest to you because blood is linked to your life.  Blood carries oxygen through your body, removes carbon dioxide, helps you to adapt to temperature changes, and aids in your fight against disease.

The linkage of life to blood was made long before William Harvey mapped the circulatory system in 1628.  The basic ethics of major religious focus  on a Life-Giver, who expressed himself about life and about blood.  A Judeo-Christian lawyer said of him:  "He himself gives to all persons life and breath and all things. For by him we have life and move and exist." 

People who believe in such a Life-Giver trust that his directions are for your lasting good. A Hebrew prophet described him as "the One teaching you to benefit yourself, the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk."

That assurance, at Isaiah 48:17, is part of the Bible, a book respected for ethical values that can benefit all of us. What does it say about human use of blood? Does it show how lives can be saved with blood? Actually, the Bible shows clearly that blood is more than  a complete biologic fluid. It mentions blood over 400 times, and some of these references involve the saving of life.  

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