by Marvin Shilmer 15 Replies latest jw friends
Please elaborate, got rid of all literature years ago.
Pages 45 - 48 promote the crazy idea that Adam was given a chance with all the animals before he realized that none of them was a suitable companion. (???) The description of Eve's creation reminded me of Dr. Evil's 'Fembots' from Austin Powers. She was just a 'thing' that God made as a gift for Adam.
TweetieBird:
This would have been a good item for "Watchtower Quotes" imo:
From Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God (© 1966)
Pages 45-47, pp.21-25
21 Before the man (adám) ever asked for a human companion, God his Creator knew what was good for him. Of course, the man’s having a human companion could influence him for good or for bad, for obedience toward God or for disobedience toward God, for everlasting life or for everlasting death. But the “God of faithfulness” would provide a companion for Adam for good, toward his obedience, toward everlasting life. The Creation account makes all that plain, for, in Genesis 2:18, it reads: “And Jehovah God went on to say: ‘It is not good for the man [adám] to continue by himself. I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him.’”
22 Before God created anything new, a woman, God left the man free to determine whether there was a suitable companion for him among all the lower animals. He did not oblige the man to go seeking a companion among them, thus requiring the use of much time on the man’s part, but Jehovah God brought the various beasts of the earth and the flying creatures of the heavens before the man. God gave the man the freedom to name these creatures. But the perfect man, created in God’s image and according to God’s likeness, was not inclined to bestiality. He merely acquainted himself, unafraid, with them and named them, but he found among them no suitable companion for himself. As a lone human on earth he continued to worship his God and Creator, not lower animals. He needed no command from God against animal worship. He had just the one law against improper eating.—Genesis 2:19, 20.
23 After the man fully exercised his freedom to reject any of the lower creatures as a companion and helper for him, God acted. "Hence Jehovah God had a deep sleep fall upon the man and, while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and then closed up the flesh over it place. And Jehovah’s God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and to bring her to the man. Then the man said: ‘This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one will be called Woman [Ishsháh], because from man [ish] this one was taken.’"—Genesis 2:21-23.
24 This reveals that God told the man just how the woman had been created, to show to the man that she was related to him in flesh and bone, for she was a part of him. Adam’s words on accepting the woman as his wife make plain that he exercised his free choice to have this woman as his helper and companion. She was the last one of the creatures that God brought to Adam to see which creature he would choose as his life-long companion. Then to show that they would have children who, in turn, would marry, God went on to say: “That is why a man [ish] will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.”—Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4, 5.
25 It was after the man accepted his perfect wife at God’s hands that God blessed them and told them to be fruitful . . . .
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~Binadub
Hah! Thanks for posting that link, Marvin!! I clicked on it - "Women were made to please"???
Puh-leeeeeeeZE!!
The Watchtower is still stuck in that 1950's mentality - which was common throughout the culture, not just within the JW mentality, by the way...
If I understand the history correctly, it went something like this:
During WWII, so many men were drafted to fight, the factories didn't have enough workers. So the women - "Rosie the Riveter" - took the jobs that the men were doing, before the war.
Naturally, AFTER the war, when all those G.I.'s were 'de-mobbed' - released from the military - the U.S. wanted THEM to be able to go back to work.
Meantime, many women had come to enjoy the larger paychecks for the assembly jobs, and weren't all that interested in going back to home, kitchen, babies - however the Nazis put it.
The push to remove women from paying jobs so that the men could be employed, took several forms.
Popular fiction emphasized the "romantic ideal".
Many belittling comments were directed at women, in print, on the 'big screen', and even on TV.
Women who preferred working to marriage and children were "pitied", viewed as 'embittered spinsters', and so on.
Amusingly, in the 70s, studies were made of the lives of single women versus married women.
And the results???
SINGLE women LIVED LONGER, had a better outlook on life, and - depending on education, of course - generally had a better lifestyle than most MARRIED women!!!
The results so suprised the researchers, that the study was run again - and again, in the 1990s, if I recall correctly.
WITH THE SAME RESULTS...
So much for those stupid "Harlequin Romances" my idiot mother was always trying to get me to read!!!
I remember that study in the '70s, I think it was the first one--by a student at Berkley on "Who is the happiest person."
The results were in this order:
1) Single woman (most happy)
2) Married man
3) Married woman
4) Single man (least happy)
The study was by a claimed-to-be happily married woman.
~Binadub
You know, that woman in the robe is actually naked under her robe. That's why ithe picture had to be changed.
TD...
My impression is that a great many JW's of both genders are trapped in sexless marriages.
And the ones of us that were not in a sexless marriage wish we were. It is a total lose, lose in JW world.
