by B_Deserter 36 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
having a reputation of making decisions in harmony with the Bible? Such a disturbing blemish on one’s reputation could, of course, affect a minister’s being qualified for special privileges of service, though that might not be so if one had in ignorance had this procedure performed.—1 Timothy 3:7.
How arrogant!
Hmmm, I know appointed men who've had a vasectomy.
I had my tubes ties after my last child, its just don't tell. I was very active as a jw then.
If you can't take the pill and do not want more kids than what they don't know won't piss them off.
There was no way in heck I'd be buying condoms. Besides I know I would of told them where to go even back then.
Besides my dad had a vasectomy, ya, An I have a step sister as old as my oldest son.
I think you have to make your own conscientious decisions.
Just venting on human rights, don't mind me.
hope4others
At the rate they are going, they are going to ban sex altogether. Then there would be no need for birth control. Or, they will make it so sex acts need approval from Brother Hounder, right down to the littlest movements each party makes.
And why stop there? Sex would be impossible if the people are stopped from meeting the opposite sex, so why not just make that impossible too? And, while you're at it, why not make just having any desire to meet someone of the opposite sex fall in "fornication", since people are not allowed or able to go any farther and that would make the stand against it.
The nerve of these people trying to control every aspect of someone's life! It kills me. And I know that I could not go back to living like that, always checking stupid articles before I made a decision. What a burden that was...
WT: Sterilization has become the most widely used means of family planning.
Is this just another lie? I find it har to believe that it is more widely used than condoms or withdrawl, or that calendar/rythm method. Anybody?
Watchtower and Sex don't go good together.
So the Society spent years telling everyone to try to not have kids so close to the end but then you can't permanently fix that because reproduction is a gift from God.
So which is it? A gift or a burden? Make up your fucking minds...
The most important point in this is not to tell anyone, just do it. jws are more concerned about what humans think who are limited in what they can know than what God thinks whom they say sees all things. Makes you wonder who they are worshipping.
Blondie
This is the problem I have with many things said in the Org. They can't tell you: "It is a sin, don't do it" But then they put all these
Christians do well to weigh such indications that God esteems their reproductive ability....these were not to be destroyed needlessly....
Christians... want to use ‘soundness of mind’ and shapetheir thinking and deeds by God’s esteem for reproductive potential...This would reflect maturesensitivity to Scriptural indications...Such a disturbing blemish on one’s reputation could, of course, affect a minister’s being qualified for special privileges of service, though that might not be so if one had in ignorance had this procedure performed.—1 Timothy 3:7.
You are still given the option to decide, but by the use of these words, how do you think one feels after reading all these negative adjectives and approach to your decision?
Then there's the "others" opinion. Nobody should care or feel that you are less spiritual than they are by choosing this methods of contraception. This is the problem, we can't think for ourselves. This bunch of dum dum's keep writing the Society for every decision the want to make, and whatever they say goes. That is why they take it upon themselves to decide over our lives what we should or shouldn' do. Aren't these people mature enough to decide for themselves using their own conscience.
