QFR August 15, 2014 - Resurrection and Marriage (page 3)

blondie

Thanks, I have looked at that one yet...it was up yet.

Listener

This is another reason not to follow men and their wicked ideas.

There are millions of JWs that have died with the sadness of believing that they would not be with their spouse in paradise earth. They died on their deathbeds with this thought.

Remember the thread based on insider info from a Bethel HQ insider. It stated that the 144.000 would become SYMBOLIC within two years and to start looking for changes in doctrine that would lead up to that...Well this seems like a first change to support that change of direction.

The Searcher

So if it really referred to the earthly resurrection, (John 5:28,29; Acts 24:15; Revelation 20:5,12) then planet Earth is going to become the biggest Singles Club in the universe - lasting for eternity!

It also makes a nonsense of Genesis 2:18 - "And Jehovah God went on to say: "It is not good for the man to continue by himself."

But it'll be OK for billions of resurrected ones????????

Da.Furious

Here is the article:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pm18c6

punkofnice

"Put simply, the answer is that we cannot say"

Typical. We the WBT$ have all the answers but not really!

This goes for all their beliefs.

designs

At a funeral service held at a Presbyterian Church the pastor described the deceased enjoying his family in heaven, camping, boating, fishing, all the things he enjoyed on earth. Very strange.

Splash

The story so far...

RESURRECTED ONES CAN MARRY?

YES - 1943 “The Truth Shall Make You Free” p.362 - 364
[Evil ones] will not come forth [in the resurrection] to take part in the divine mandate [filing the earth], because that will have been completed by the Lord's "other sheep".

NO - w50 10/15 p. 381 “Be Fruitful, Multiply, Fill the Earth”
Nor will the resurrected multitudes be privileged to do so, for Jesus plainly stated that such will not marry nor be given in marriage

Even survivors won't marry - w54 9/15 p. 575 Questions From Readers
After that final test there will definitely be no marrying or being given in marriage then by those counted worthy of the new world and having the right to eternal life, just as angels have that right

YES - w54 9/15 p. 575 Questions From Readers
It is even reasonable and allowable to entertain the comforting thought that those of the other sheep who now die faithful will have an early resurrection and live during the time when the procreation mandate is being fulfilled and when paradise conditions are being spread earth-wide and that they will share in this divinely given service.

NO - w61 11/15 p. 704 Questions From Readers
for dead ones with spiritual, heavenly hopes and for dead ones with earthly Paradisaic hopes the rule enunciated by Jesus Christ stands unaltered: “In the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage

NO - w67 10/15 p. 638 Questions From Readers
Jesus’ words apply to the earthly resurrection, and they indicate that those resurrected will not marry or be reunited in a marriage relationship with former mates.

YES / MAYBE - w14 8/1 page 29+30, questions from readers
"Could Jesus be referring only to the heavenly resurrection?" "It is possible"

Splash

Socrateswannabe

Thank you Splash! I love it when someone compiles a list of the Society's doctrinal flip flops like you just did. How could anyone be so naive as to think these guys have the "truth"?

Designer Stubble

Thank you Splash - and keep in mind with these many flip-flops:

"A new view of truth never can contradict a former truth. ‘New Light’ never extinguishes older ‘light’ but adds to it.”—Zion’s Watch Tower, February 1881, p. 3

QFR August 15, 2014 - Resurrection and Marriage

RESURRECTED ONES CAN MARRY?

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