What EXACTLY Is The Society's View On Sex???????

by minimus 38 Replies latest jw friends

• 

  Carmel

  Pauline! Need I say more?

  carmel
• 

  blondie

  Here we have an organization that has had 5 presidents.

  Charles Taze Russell--a man who married a woman both vowing not to have sex with each other ever.

  Joseph F. Rutherford--a man who did not live under the same roof with his wife for the last 22 or so years of his life (perhaps) longer. Choosing to live in a separate house even when they both resided in California.

  A man who "wrote" and published the book Children which said it would be better spiritually to stay single and wait until after Armageddon to marry.

  Nathan Knorr--a man who was ostensibly celibate until he married in 1953 at the age of 48 having spent the last 30 years under the Bethel roof. Normally, Bethelites had to leave Bethel service when then married. Knorr's step into marriage and staying at Bethel, made this rule less rigid.

  Frederick Franz--a man who never married who co-authored the book Children with Rutherford.

  Milton Henschel--another lifetime member of Bethel like Knorr who married in 1956 at the young age of 35 when the sanction against married Bethelites lessened with Knorr's excursion into matrimony.

  In the beginning, the Watchtower Society was made up entirely of people who expected soon to go to heaven to rule with Christ. Living a life of eternal celibacy in heaven was ahead of them. What was a few years on earth, right?

  Then with the emergence of the "earthly" class, marriage again was considered a disadvantage. After all, already 2 presidents of the WTS had had disastrous marriages/sex lives. Why not save those on earth from a difficult life. So they emphasized the scriptures in the bible that seemed to make those who remained celibate better Christians, holier than the rest who gave into their carnal desires. After all, the end was just around the corner, right?

  ***

  w61 3/15 p. 185 par. 17 Parents, Safeguard Your Child’s Life with Accurate Knowledge ***

  Standing now at the threshold of Jehovah’s new world, many youths may want to postpone marriage until after Armageddon, when selection of a wife will be made under righteous conditions and when marriage responsibilities will be carried out with none of the distractions that now plague mankind.

  ***

  w65 9/15 p. 564 par. 15 Weighing Wedlock in These Last Days ***

  There is also a better field of service to God open to a single Christian. This may not necessarily be so from the standpoint of privileges that can be enjoyed, though it often is. For example, one who is married may not be able to serve at a Bethel home of the Watch Tower Society, whereas a single person may be so blessed. Singleness will also spare you tribulation in the flesh.

  Well, these are just some thoughts that have come to me reading about the presidents of the WTS and the written "rules" and unwritten "rules" of the WTS.

  Blondie
• 

  kwr

  Maybe we could get Ann Coulter in front of a JW judicial committee to find out if she has ever broken this command? ;-)
• 

  minimus

  The Society has really gone overboard with matters pertaining to sex. They will hear EVERY detail regarding one's immorality----like they never did before. Now an elder CANNOT tell another another elder he's going a bit too far in his questioning. There are no rules of decency any longer. Now you MUST TELL the priests every detail or else you will be deemed unrepentant!
• 

  MidwichCuckoo

  If "by chance" the wife "touches" her husband's "penis," her hand must be cut off. -Deut. 25:11

  What if it 'by chance' slips into her mouth? Beheaded?
• 

  minimus

  Which head?
• 

  MidwichCuckoo

  eeeeek Minimus. I was going to put 'decapitated', but that's more accidental. HERS of course - always the woman's fault, don't you know?
• 

  james_woods

  Back in the years 1975 up to the apostacy of 1981, there were several homosexual scandals at Bethel.

  One of the governing body was eventually sent away over this issue. One of the presidents of the society was under suspicion.

  The euphamisms for the expelling and disfellowshipping (only newbie bethelites actually paid the penalty by DF) - were unbelievable.

  They ran the gamut from "covetousness" to "idolatry". The real cause was never spoken, even in secrecy.

  Probably someone who was at Bethel at the time will know who and what I am reporting.

  James
• 

  minimus

  Chitty, Greenlees and Knorr.