For the FDS having a blood transfusion is very a serious sin, but do you know any cases where JWs lapsed and took blood and were later reinstated or is it an unwritten law that this can never happen?
In theory a JW could say: I will take a transfusion to save my life and then I will repent, surely this is not as bad as adultery and see how many adulterers get reinstated.
In practice I never heard this happen JWs either refuse blood and die or accept it get DFed and stay out.
Any JWs that accepted blood and got reinstated?
by greendawn 6 Replies latest jw friends
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M.J.
Sadly, many JWs will sooner commit adultery than accept a blood transfusion.
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greendawn
That is the strange psychology behind it, this seems to be the ultimate transgression a JW could commit perhaps worse than apostasy. Strangely they apply it even to their non baptised children causing many to die without them having a choice on what to decide. It is so fanatical and insane.
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blondie
The following testimony shows this practice as a personal experience of a JW elder. 24
"In my congregation a hospitalised congregation publisher [a JW active in preaching] received an unexpected visit from a Hospital Visitation Committee member who observed that he was receiving a blood transfusion. This confidential information was then reported to the presiding overseer and a judicial committee was convened while the man was still in the hospital. The publisher was promptly disfellowshiped. The three elders felt there was nothing he could do to demonstrate repentance since the blood had already been transfused. About six months later the disfellowshiped man applied for reinstatement and I served on the committee that heard his plea. I can still recall the look on this poor man's face as he wept and begged us to reinstate him so that he would not die out of favor with God. We reinstated him that day and a few weeks later he lost his fight with leukemia." -
greendawn
So here we see someone got reinstated after a transfusion but it was so pathetic how he was taken in by the cultic lies and feared so much that he would die without a hope for resurrection.
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damselfly
I remember being terrified as kid about needing a transfusion. I finally decided if I ever did need a transfusion that I would take it and then be repentant. Thank goodness I was a healthy kid and it never happened,
Dams
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ballistic
I refused a blood transfusion for an operation since leaving the org. I told them I was a Jehovah's Witness. But that was because I knew the risks were low. I would accept one if it was to save my life. No one questioned why I was always out on the patio smoking though.