The Bible says in Leviticus 1711,
the life of the flesh is in the blood.
Now there used to be a practice in a lot of hospitals
and it still exists in parts of the world
called bloodletting.
And the idea behind bloodletting
is that when you got sick,
they assumed the sickness was in the blood.
So to be healed, we drain your blood from your body.
That's dumb.
Do you know how the first president
in the United States died?
She was blood to death.
George Washington, the first president of the US,
woke his wife Martha to say he was feeling very sick
and that he could hardly breathe or talk on his own.
The former president asked his overseer,
Albin Rawlins, to bleed him.
Doctors then arrived and bled him four more times
over the next eight hours
with a total blood loss of 40%.
You take 40% of the blood from your body,
you're gonna die, right?
And that's exactly what happened to George Washington.
But the Bible says the life of the flesh
is in the blood.
And so the thing is,
if you're allowing the Bible to be your guide,
you would say, no, no, no,
I don't want you to take blood from my body.