Is donating organs wrong?

[mindlight]

1) Are their Christian reasons not to give organs on death?

2) Who decides and by what criteria that I am sufficiently dead for my organs to be given away?

3) How are the competing interests of medical teams to be reconciled in a situation where one team wants to save someone elses life with my organs and the other team is trying to save my life.

4) Can I trust the authorities who regulate these processes?

5) How effective is organ donation- do the results justify the expense?

6) Would you receive someones elses organ in order to save your own life?

 

[Jig]

1) Are their Christian reasons not to give organs on death?

2) Who decides and by what criteria that I am sufficiently dead for my organs to be given away?

3) How are the competing interests of medical teams to be reconciled in a situation where one team wants to save someone elses life with my organs and the other team is trying to save my life.

4) Can I trust the authorities who regulate these processes?

5) How effective is organ donation- do the results justify the expense?

6) Would you receive someones elses organ in order to save your own life?

This article may answer many of your questions. It is too long to post though.

What does the Bible say about organ donation?

 

[dayhiker]

My thought was this verse .. no greater love has a man that he lay down his life for another.

 

[ebia]

This article may answer many of your questions. It is too long to post though.

What does the Bible say about organ donation?

It's also wrong about resurrection.

 

[ebia]

1) Are their Christian reasons not to give organs on death?

not IMO

2) Who decides and by what criteria that I am sufficiently dead for my organs to be given away?

medical staff according to fixed guidelines

3) How are the competing interests of medical teams to be reconciled in a situation where one team wants to save someone elses life with my organs and the other team is trying to save my life.

your life takes priority while it can be saved.

4) Can I trust the authorities who regulate these processes?

yes. They have a vested interest in maintaining trust because without it the system collapses quickly.

5) How effective is organ donation- do the results justify the expense?

like any other medical proceedure the costs are astronomical and the success rate dismal initially, but as techniques improve the two both tend towards a justifiable balance. Some are better than others - kidneys say.

6) Would you receive someones elses organ in order to save your own life?

Of course.

 

[juvenissun]

1) Are their Christian reasons not to give organs on death?

2) Who decides and by what criteria that I am sufficiently dead for my organs to be given away?

3) How are the competing interests of medical teams to be reconciled in a situation where one team wants to save someone elses life with my organs and the other team is trying to save my life.

4) Can I trust the authorities who regulate these processes?

5) How effective is organ donation- do the results justify the expense?

6) Would you receive someones elses organ in order to save your own life?

The problem is: people might take your organ before you die.

 

[Jig]

It's also wrong about resurrection.

Nope.

 

[Fireinfolding]

Gal 4:15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

Seems like a good thing to do

 

[MasterpieceMesias]

frankly I think it would be much more useful and loving to become an organ donor. If you die your body would be of good use to others instead of just simply decomposing in the ground. You'd be able to help with research in order to find cures for diseases or become useful in the case of an organ transplant or what not.
So basically, yes I think God would practically behoove you to become an organ donor

 

[ebia]

Nope.

It is when it plays off spiritual against physical. Paul is no dualist and Jesus' resurrected body is the same physical body glorified.

 

[Armistead14]

Giving your organs is a great thing to do. There use to be some silly teaching that if we gave up organs or was creamated our resurrected bodies might be lacking...how utterly silly. The sea will give up it's dead, all of those bodies are long gone, eaten by fish, etc...If God can give body to fish poop that it itself is decayed and long gone, you need not worry about your organs.. I highly doubt people that loose limbs, etc., will be punished in heaven and have no limps...

Strict guidelines are in play, usually nothing from you is harvested until after death.

 

[mindlight]

This article may answer many of your questions. It is too long to post though.

What does the Bible say about organ donation?

Thanks for the link which was helpful, however like Ebia I have questions about what this means for my resurrected body. I think the connection between the two is stronger than this article pretends. Like the holes in Jesus hands and side after his resurrection I may also have holes of love. Would I want those for eternity. Or would God reconstruct my body. Or is the nature of our resurrected bodies such that we are able to manifest our sacrificial wounds on will. Is there a difference bEtwEn someone who donates before or after deathv

 

[ebia]

Thanks for the link which was helpful, however like Ebia I have questions about what this means for my resurrected body. I think the connection between the two is stronger than this article pretends. Like the holes in Jesus hands and side after his resurrection I may also have holes of love. Would I want those for eternity. Or would God reconstruct my body. Or is the nature of our resurrected bodies such that we are able to manifest our sacrificial wounds on will. Is there a difference bEtwEn someone who donates before or after deathv

I raised the point just because inaccurate summaries of the resurrection should be pointed out. I wouldn't worry from this point of view.

The actual parts of our body are gone after a few years in the grave anyway. At best there are bones and teeth left - the rest has been recycled.

 

[someguy14]

2 Corithians 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

 

[Amber the Duskbringer]

I only hope I am able to donate my body parts whatever they may be for others later. Not sure if I am a viable source of parts

 

[Jig]

It is when it plays off spiritual against physical. Paul is no dualist and Jesus' resurrected body is the same physical body glorified.

Please explain 1 Cor. 15:42-44.

42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

 

[Jig]

I raised the point just because inaccurate summaries of the resurrection should be pointed out.

There was no inaccurate summaries made.

 

[mindlight]

Giving your organs is a great thing to do. There use to be some silly teaching that if we gave up organs or was creamated our resurrected bodies might be lacking...how utterly silly. The sea will give up it's dead, all of those bodies are long gone, eaten by fish, etc...If God can give body to fish poop that it itself is decayed and long gone, you need not worry about your organs.. I highly doubt people that loose limbs, etc., will be punished in heaven and have no limps...

Strict guidelines are in play, usually nothing from you is harvested until after death.

I agree that the scriptures seems to indicate a completely healthy and restored state to our resurrected bodies and it would not be the nature of God to have walking wounded walking around the New Jerusalem for all eternity.

What God created and what he evisages for our perfection cannot be destroyed by dismemberment.

 

[mindlight]

My thought was this verse .. no greater love has a man that he lay down his life for another.

Except it is not even that sacrificial if I am already dead- just good stewardship with the gifts God gave.

 

[mindlight]

Please explain 1 Cor. 15:42-44.

42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

In Adam we die in Christ we can live forever. The natural body is subject to the law of death, dishonour and decay but that which is raised and originates in Gods will is not.

If there is a natural body there is a spiritual one indicates a continuity between the two. I will recognise myself in the mirror methinks but also celebrate a vast improvement for which I will glorify God.