I suppose you’re right David. Any of you silly Christian Scientists or Jehovah’s Witnesses who want to argue this may join me there if you wish.
I say that everything that was written after the Pentateuch is an update. 
Feel free to correct me at any time. But don’t be surprised if I try to correct you.
Yo, I once heard that a JW refused to have her OWN blood pumped back into her body.
Yup. Blood is blood. Makes no difference.
A few points here:
I have made it clear in this thread that there are some things of more value than one’s life–granted these are few.–Matthew 10:39.
The same medical profession that has the “tools” for transfusions these days had the “tools” in the eighteenth century for bloodletting–that’s why I mentioned George Washington and Lord Byron. (The bloodletting killed both of them.)
Acts 5:29: “We must obey God as ruler rather than men.” Compare this with the “free-exercise-of-religion” clause in the First Amendment. Notwithstanding the laws of the Roman Empire in the first century, the Christians understood that they had a commission from God to spread the Gospel, although obviously the imperial body of law opposed that. Similarly, today, the body of American law should not be allowed to make observance of the law of God “conditional” or “convenient.” Don’t you see it that way? 