My favorite texts from the bible that make me wonder what god was thinking, and in turn the Jews and Christians and of course the WT try to ignore. I have not brought this up since the Royal Commission in Australia into child sexual abuse.
From Deuteronomy firstly Ch22 vs 22
" If a man is found lying down with a woman who is the wife of another man, both of them must die together, the man who lay down with the woman as well as the woman. So you must remove what is bad from Israel."
Ok this is for context ,so adulterers are FOUND and god says they must die and the reason is given to keep Israel spiritually clean.
Next from Deut: CH 22 Vs 23 -24another example
" If a Virgin is engaged to a man, and another man happens to meet her in the city and lies down with her , 24 you should bring them both out to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the girl because she did not scream in the city and the man because he humiliated the wife of his fellow man. So you must remove what is evil from your midst."
So an engaged girl is viewed as in marraige ,and because she did not scream it is assumed it was consensual sex,the text says nothing as to whether she was overpowered to the point of her mouth being covered and therefore could not be heard by anyone! In vers: 25 - 27 we see the lesson continues with the same man but in a different location and circumstance.
Continuing Deut: 22 vs 25 -27 THIS is key to showing the failure of the WT explanation of the 2 witness rule they use!
" If, however , the man happened to meet the engaged girl in the field and the man overpowered her and lay down with her, the man who lay down with her is to die by himself, 26 and you must do nothing to the girl. The girl has not committed a sin deserving of death. This case is the same as when a man attacks his fellow man and murders him." 27 For he happened to meet her in the field ,and the engaged girl screamed, but there was no one to rescue her .
The example above shows what should happen if the same man raped a virgin in the field with no one around to witness her screams. So the only witness is her word ,he dies for rape at her word for their was no one to witness this crime. So how can little children be not believed when people in the WT rape and molest them. And even when molested children or women ,when they keep quiet till adulthood and reveal the perpetrator ,why does the WT not reflect on these scriptures instead of incorrectly applying a two witness rule that clearly does not apply to circumstances like these and then DF people for holding to their truth ?
And following on from these scriptures above, Deut; 22 vs 28-29 where a girl and a man are discovered having sex where he siezed her (so no fault of hers) ,the man must pay the girls father ,but worse, she is forced to marry the offender. How unfair is that , and he cannot divorce her but she is tied to him as a slave bought at a price .Disgusting ,The man has already shown his violent nature but here we have this poor bound to this filth for life.
I think if I was that woman I would be looking very hard at shortening her anguish by doing him in.
So wheres gods wisdom here? Where is the WTS protecting the flock with the 2 witness rule when the scriptures by this example clearly show them badly in error ,even cruel .To show their attitude my own personal experience with my ex wife ,where she had been molested by her elder father for years as a kid ,we married and then she told me what happened and so began about 15 years of trying to get the WTS to handle this properly . It wrecked my health at the time .They never reported it to the police so she did. One elder in Queesland Australia when trying to talk to him about the WT stance said to me that if of a 100 people they found one innocent person who had been falsely charged of molestation, then the WTS is vindicated in applying the 2 witness rule . So there you have it ,and so began our leaving that unloving hypocritical religion.
