Blood donations link to Christ’s suffering

JESUS explained to disciples that he would not capitulate to Roman power, so his life must be sacrificed, and he asked them to remember that sacrifice of his ‘Body and Blood’, by symbolism of bread and wine, shared in future spiritual communion, spreading his message.

Bread and wine are also molecules of food, essential to maintaining life, and so conveying to all Christians, their responsibility to care for the health of others, most especially the young and helpless.

No human could fail to understand these ‘practicalities’, however he develops his own life. Each person makes an individual choice of pointless selfinterest, or sharing Jesus’ perspective.

Over centuries, a vast range of charities were born from this instruction.

Another historical fact, associated with these symbols, developed later, in the present medical procedures of Organ Transplant and Blood Transfusion, body and blood, where the molecules offered to those in need, are not nutritionally active as before, but now are physiologically active, gifted from one body, to heal another.

The essential link between them is Jesus’s compassion, active in many fields, “evolving thought”, like telescopes and microscopes deriving from spectacles.

Necessary to achieve this was lives of devoted research to comprehend this universe more fully, called science, and the sympathy of some donors. Both were complementary parts, progressing through time, within the same pattern Jesus explained. Curing bodies by caring and giving organs was an extension of feeding them.

Perhaps Jesus predicted the future, from his perceived pattern of this universe, just as one might predict tsunamis from knowing of earthquakes.

No one can deny that his life has been an inspiration over generations, so it may be that this historical development is a direct, intentional, consequence of Jesus’ will and power. CN Westerman