Bible Question & Answers

Question: Is organdonating wrong? (According to Bible)

Answer: It is always good that we are concerned about what the Bible teaches on various subjects. In fact, the Bible is the only reliable moral standard we have. The word of God and exercising our spiritual senses can make us able to "discern both good and evil" (Heb. 5:12-14).

• Jesus' teaching on ultimate sacrifice: "This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you," Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you" (John. 15:12-14). 
• Jesus demonstrated his love for man when he gave himself on the cross (Phili. 2: 5-10). 
• You may wonder what relevance this has to our question. The pertinence involves giving part of one’s body so another can physically live. Paul figuratively mentioned the affection the Galatians had once had for him when he wrote: "... Ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me" (Gal. 4:15).
• Our bodies are to be offered "a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God..." (Rom. 12:1).
• It is possible to "sin against ones own body" (I Cor. 6: 18).
• Those, therefore, who abuse themselves and destroy their healthy will have to give an account of their stewardship (I Cor. 6:18,19)."For ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body," Paul enjoined (vs. 20). 

We need to take care of our spiritual welfare, but to donate an organ to perhaps save the life of another is not necessarily bodily abuse, I am convinced. Such a donation could be very noble and beneficial to another.

Some object to organ donation on the grounds of their desire to be physically complete at the resurrection. It must be understood that it is not the self-same body that will be resurrected (for our bodies however intact at the time of burial, will all be turned to dust very shortly after) but the same mind with a new body- “But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body” 1Cor 15 :38. As a matter of fact the blind and lame will not be raised as blind and lame, but we read “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing...”