A witness once told me single witnesses half expect their partners to be experienced or have fooled around and consider it a failure if a guy or a girl has waited till marriage to have sex or fool around! Doesn't that go against their relgion saying No sex before marriage? They seem to change their rules like changing underwear?
2007-07-05 22:37:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
prolllly true lol
the guy above me is gonna edit his thing with tonnes and tonnes of stuff hes sum hardout Jehovah guy
2007-07-05 22:40:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 8⤋
That is so untrue. Your friend obviously was not a good example of a Jehovah's Witness. Or was living a double life.
I know many, many who were both virgins when they got married, especially if they were raised as a witness. I even know some 40 year old virgins. Those who want their courtship to be pleasing to Jehovah, take the needed steps to avoid any type of uncleanness, loose conduct or fornication. It maybe hard for some, but many succeed to start their marriage out with a clean conscience. My neice has been seeing a guy for over a year, they plan to marry at the end of the year. They always have a chaperone and have done really well. I know many couples who have done the same. Dating is taken very serious, it is for finding a marriage mate. Of course, no one is perfect, people make mistakes. It's if they learn from their mistakes and get their life back on tract, that's important. Jehovah's Witnesses take keeping the congregation clean very serious, and anyone unrepentantly practicing fornication cannot be consider good association.
Your question seems to be to spread slander about Jehovah's Witnesses.
2007-07-06 10:18:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Just because one so called witness says something doesnt mean he is speaking for all witnesses.
Jehovahs Witnesses adhere to the Bible.If changes are made it is due to the fact that further understanding of relative scriptures has been reached.
By the way it is Jehovah God who says 'no sex before marriage'
2007-07-06 10:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by lillie 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
My wife was a virgin when we were married and she was raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I was not raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses and was not a virgin when I was married. I am now one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and know for a fact that we DO NOT consider a person a failure if he/she has not had sex before marriage. In fact, such chastity is to be commended, whether a person is one of Jehovah's Witnesses or not. Our view of fornication is the same as it has always been. We have not changed our thinking. Fornication is wrong.
There are several young men and women in our congregation who have remained chaste and are virgins. True, some youths do fall into immorality, even as Christians did in the first century (Revelation 2:12, 14). However, the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses around the world are loyal to God's command to "flee from fornication". -1 Corinthians 6:18
"Happy are YOU when people reproach YOU and persecute YOU and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against YOU for my sake. 12Â Rejoice and leap for joy, since YOUR reward is great in the heavens; for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to YOU." -Matthew 5:11
2007-07-06 05:52:19 · answer #4 · answered by johnusmaximus1 6 · 13⤊ 1⤋
A number of Jehovah's Witnesses were not virgins BEFORE they became Jehovah's Witnesses. Some may have violated God's law concerning sex. But to say that most single Witnesses are not virgins without some kind of proof is pure speculation.
"A witness once told me." What is that supposed to mean? Does one voice speak for thousands or millions? That's how ugly rumors get started. Is that what you are trying to do? It sure looks like that to me.
2007-07-06 05:39:54 · answer #5 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
not everyone is a Jehovah Witness when they first started out. many came from other religions. if there parents where Jehovah Witnesses, then yes many where virgins. but I cannot say. that is not any of my business if they where or not. I don't go around asking someone if they are or not. no we do not change the rules as we change our underwear. I agree with linedancer, about your question.
2007-07-06 08:22:20 · answer #6 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
No, failure to maintain chastity certainly is a failure.
True Christians (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) have always noted that the virginity of a young man or woman is "owed" to his or her eventual spouse. No Jehovah's Witness would "half expect" a loved one to give away to another what is rightly owed to him (or her). In fact, it is not uncommon for a Witness to break off the relationship if and when he or she learns that his or her intended is not a virgin.
Perhaps more telling is that Jehovah's Witnesses have an entirely Scriptural view of virginity. While a worldly person might believe that a virgin has simply not engaged in penile-vaginal intercourse, Witnesses believe that a true virgin has not willingly engaged in ANY form of fornication (that is, biblical virginity precludes vaginal, anal, and oral sex, and even so-called "assisted masturbation"). A child who is abused and an adult who is raped may still be biblical virgins.
The matter of a person's virginity is primarily between oneself, one's Creator, and one's eventual spouse (see Eccl 4:12). The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses does not concern itself with the sinful details of a current adherent's pre-Christian past, but even one who has repented one's sins and been forgiven by God must recognize that one's sexual history may in itself make one undesirable as a potential marriage mate.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-11) Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. And yet that is what some of you were. But you have been washed clean, but you have been sanctified, but you have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20040508a/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19990422/article_01.htm
2007-07-06 06:45:59 · answer #7 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
2 reasons to think ur just a freak
that wants to get ppl talking about virginity.
1) the Q itself.
2) Look! at ur name!!!!!
And 3rdly; u finish up w/ the grand 'ol unders...
Sounds fishy to me...I could be mistaken.
It could be the 1 whom told you this was,
speaking in terms of a worldly man.
I mean WHAT !! kind of conversation IS THAT to be having between grown men!!! ?
2007-07-07 06:47:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't tell you, I don't go around asking people if they were virgins before they were married or not.
2007-07-06 05:51:22 · answer #9 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
u just cannot trust the next person in today;s ever changing world
grandpa used to say that.
2007-07-06 05:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Knowledge Seeker 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Probably not, but it is true that yours is a loaded, prejudiced question!
2007-07-06 05:47:00 · answer #11 · answered by edward_lmb 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋