PJ54
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*** Text for Sunday, May 15, 2022 ***The apostle Paul encouraged Christians to consider whether they could serve Jehovah as single people. (1 Cor. 7:8, 9) Certainly Paul did not look down on single Christians. In fact, he chose young Timothy, a single brother, to care for weighty assignments. (Phil. 2:19-22) Obviously, then, it would be wrong to think that a brother is more qualified or less qualified based solely on whether he is married or not. (1 Cor. 7:32-35, 38) Neither Jesus nor Paul taught that Christians must marry or that they must remain single. What, then, can we say about marriage and singleness? The Watchtower of October 1, 2012, stated it nicely when it said: “Really, both [marriage and singleness] can be described as gifts from God. . . . Jehovah does not view [singleness] as a cause for shame or grief.” With this in mind, we need to respect the place of single brothers and sisters in the congregation. w20.08 28 ¶8-9
Each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that way.—1 Cor. 7:7.
At last, the Watchtower comes around…sort of
For decades it has been obvious to me and others besides, that when Jesus spoke of those who will be resurrected, saying they will be as angels - not marrying, he was speaking of those who will experience the first resurrection and not the masses who will receive
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At last, the Watchtower comes around…sort of
For decades it has been obvious to me and others besides, that when Jesus spoke of those who will be resurrected, saying they will be as angels - not marrying, he was speaking of those who will experience the first resurrection and not the masses who will receive
e-watchman.com
At last, the Watchtower comes around…sort of
May 28th, 2014
For decades it has been obvious to me and others besides, that when Jesus spoke of those who will be resurrected, saying they will be as angels – not marrying, he was speaking of those who will experience the first resurrection and not the masses who will receive an earthly resurrection.
The Watchtower has stubbornly insisted otherwise, defying all common sense. It seemed to me that they were deliberately torturing those who had lost mates and who looked to the resurrection as a way to be reunited with them – simply because they have the power to do so. No doubt the Watchtower’s insistence that the resurrected will not marry has caused many to grieve unnecessarily.
Now, though, as with a host of other things, the Watchtower has unceremoniously changed its point of view – doing so in an out-of-the-way Question from Readers column. Only instead of assertively pointing out the implications of its new teaching, they caution against being dogmatic and speculating, as if no one can really be sure what Jesus meant.
Their reasoning for having erroneously taught that resurrected humans will not marry was supposedly because the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection. What lame reasoning though. Why would Jesus even concern himself with confining his answer to placate those who did not believe in the first place? Jesus, in fact, never answered his tempters and critics in ways they expected him to. And he often spoke to a higher truth than his hearers were able to grasp. Apparently, the Governing Body has more in common with the Sadducees than they realize.
The Society’s density of mind is intolerable. I just wonder how much longer Jehovah is going to put up with this organization that plays with the truth like a deck of playing cards.
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