If a woman does not scream when she is raped, is this an act of fornication and therefore a sin?
FORNICATIONWT 1/15/64 p.63;
WT 1/15/64 p.64;
WT 6/1/68 p.347
NOT FORNICATION (implied)1969, 1971 Aid to Bible Understanding, p. 1371+, 601
FORNICATION Awake! 3/8/74 p.14
NOT FORNICATION (implied) Awake! 7/8/80 p.5,6
FORNICATIONWT 10/15/80 p.7
NOT FORNICATIONWT 3/15/83 p.30
FORNICATIONAwake! 2/22/84 p.2
Awake! 2/22/84 p.25
NOT FORNICATIONAwake! 6/8/84 p.28
FORNICATIONAwake! 5/22/86 p.23
NOT FORNICATION (?) (not sure really … a vague response) Awake! 9/22/86 p.28
NOT FORNICATIONAwake! 3/8/93 p.5
Are the increases in numbers of Jehovah’s Witnesses evidence that they have God’s divine favor and blessing?
NO -
Examining the Scriptures Daily, May 19th, 2002Of course, the number of those associated with Jehovah's Witnesses is not a criterion for determining if they enjoy divine favor.
YES -
Watchtower July 1, 2002, p.13, paragraph 17-19Now is the time for Jehovah to express mercy to his anointed servants and their other sheep companions. The evidence that this is so is the extraordinary increase with which he has blessed them…
18. Each year, hundreds of thousands of additional "foreigners" associate with Jehovah's organisation, and the way will remain open for many more to follow them. Jehovah says to Zion: "Your gates will actually be kept open constantly; they will not be closed even by day or by night, in order to bring to you the resources of the nations, and their kings will be taking the lead" (Isaiah 60:11) Some opposers try to close those 'gates,' but we know that they cannot succeed. Jehovah himself has said that one way or another, the gates will stay open. The increase will continue.
19. There are still other ways that Jehovah has blessed his people, making them beautiful in these last days.
Who Is Speaking At Rev 22:12,13?
“Look! I am coming quickly, and the reward I give is with me, to render to each one as his work is. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” Watchtower 1955 July 1 p.387 It’s Jesus.
Watchtower 1967 November 15 p.680 It’s Jehovah
Awake! 1978 August 22 p.28 It’s Jehovah
Watchtower 1978 October 1 p.15 It’s Jesus.
Watchtower 1988 June 15 p.20 It’s Jehovah
Revelation Climax (1988) (switchup in the same book) First, it’s Jehovah (p.316)
Then it’s Jesus. (p.319)
Watchtower 1999 Dec 1 p.19 (switchup in the same article) First it’s Jesus. (paragraph 18)
Then it’s Jehovah (paragrah 19)
Who are the superior authorites spoken of at Romans 13:1?
1886 - Earthly governments(Divine Plan of the Ages, 1886, p.266)
1889 - Earthly governments(Time Is At Hand, 1889, p.81) 1932-1963: God and Christ(Vindication, Vol. 3, 1932, p.13 and The Truth Shall Make You Free, 1943, p.312)
1952 - God and Christ(Let God Be True, 1952, p.248)
1959 - God and Christ(Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose, p.91)
1963 - Earthly political governments(WT 1/1/63 p.31) 1975 - Earthly political governments(1975 Yearbook, p.238)
1980 - Earthly political governments (WT 5/15/80 p.4)
Society’s View of Organ Transplants
Conscience matter
The Watchtower 08/01/1961 p. 480 The question of placing one's body or parts of one's body at the disposal of men of science or doctors at one's death for purposes of scientific experimentation or replacement in others is frowned upon by certain religious bodies. However, it does not seem that any Scriptural principle or law is involved. It therefore is something that each individual must decide for himself.
Prohibited. It is cannibalism. Watchtower, 11/15/1967, pp.702-4 Organ transplants are cannibalism, hence inappropriate for Christians.
Prohibited. It is cannibalism. Awake!, 6/19/1968, p.21 " Jehovah's Witnesses consider all organ transplants to be cannibalism, hence unacceptable".
Notice: Blood is prohibited in the quote above because blood is an organ and organ transplants are cannibalism. Now read the next quote below:Prohibited. It is cannibalism.
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Question of Blood, p.41 (1977) Consequently, whether having religious objections to blood transfusions or not, many a person might decline blood simply because it is essentially an organ transplant that at best is only partially compatible with his own blood.–
Allowed.Watchtower, 3/15/1980, p.31 " Organ transplants are not necessarily cannibalistic".
Woman dies from refusing bone marrow transplant in 1978 – only two years before Society’s reversal on organ transplants:
Copyright 1978 NEW YORK TIMES November 26, 1978, Sunday
SECTION: Page 47, Column 4 LENGTH: 74 words
JOURNAL-CODE: NYT ABSTRACT: Thirteen-year-old Lori Mason of Natick (Mass) dies on same day special court session was scheduled to ensure that her rights were being fully presented after Boston judge upheld her decision to decline bone marrow transplant from her sister. Had refused transplant on religious grounds as member of Jehovah's Witnesses and feared possibilty of endangering her sister's health. Had suffered from disease called Fanconi's aplastic anemia (S).
Reasoning From The Scriptures – False Prophets p136 par4 Matters on which corrections of viewpoint have been needed have been relatively minor when compared with the vital Bible truths that they have discerned and publicized.
(needless death is relatively minor??)