From the JW book:
YEARBOOK OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES:
'Activity Draws Opposition.
...At the same time efforts to bring the organization more into line with
scriptural requirements were due to produce sharp differences within the ranks
of the Bible Students themselves. For example,
women had played quite a
prominent part in the early days in Glasgow and other congregations, conducting
Sunday schools for children. This arrangement now came under review and it
was soon evident that Brother Russell did not favour it. Some were rather put
out by the modified view on woman's place in the Christian congregation. 1 Tim 2:11,12.'
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DO YOU THINK IT RIGHT TO TEACH
THESE CHILDREN NOW THEY ARE
MEN, AS JW WOMEN ARE DOING?
"Nevertheless, I do hold
this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who
calls
herself a prophetess, and she teaches and misleads my slaves to commit
fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her
time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her fornication. Look! I am
about to throw her into a sickbed, and those committing adultery with her
into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. And her children I will
kill with deadly plague, so that all the congregations will know that I am he
who searches the inmost thoughts and hearts, and I will give to you individually
according to your deeds." (Rev 2:20-23).
WHY QUESTION YOUR HUSBANDS
AT HOME WHEN YOU ANSWER
THEM AT MEETINGS?
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From the JW book:
LIFE EVERLASTING IN FREEDOM
OF THE SONS OF GOD:
'Enslavement to Transgression
and Death.
...She did not start disputing her husband's words, but it was a slanderer who
did so. To all appearances the slanderer or devil was a cautious lowly serpent.
In seeming innocence it asked the woman about God's law against eating of the
tree of knowledge of good and bad. Then when the woman repeated God's law laid
upon her and her husband and the penalty for breaking it, the serpent
contradicted God and said: "You positively will not die. For God knows that in
the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and
you
are bound to be like God, knowing good and bad." (Genesis 3:1-5) What a
slander! …Did she not want to become like God Himself, knowing good and bad?
She now felt under the bondage of blindness and ignorance, and she wanted to be
free. She would no longer keep herself under her husband's law. She would
act as an independent free moral agent. She would make decisions for
herself and her husband. God's prohibitory law was questionable…'
From the JW book:
LET YOUR NAME BE SANCTIFIED.
'Adam did not live up to his responsibility
as a husband and head of the wife. He did not refuse to be led in the wrong
direction by his wife, who now wanted to take the lead▲
contrary to God's arrangement. Regardless of the cost that would have to
be borne, Adam let the clearly recognized lie and slander against the name of
his heavenly Father stand. Adam wilfully brushed God's law aside and listened
to his lawbreaking wife, who wanted to make a goddess of herself, a
prophetess, an oracle of a new religion or form of worship.'
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"As in all the congregations of the holy ones, let
the women keep silent in the congregations, for it is not permitted for
them to speak, but let them* be in
subjection, even as the Law says. If, then, they want to learn something, let
them question their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a
woman to speak in a congregation. What? Was it from you that the word of
God came forth, or was it only as far as you that it reached?" (1 Cor 14:33 36).
"In like manner, you wives, be in subjection to your own
husbands, in order that, if any are not obedient to the word, they may be won
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◄ CHRIST INSTRUCTING BROTHERS
TO ALLOW,
NOT FORBID* THEIR
SUBJECTION.
◄ DISGRACE.
▲"JEZEBEL": Women teachers of their new religion, pushing ahead presumptuously
with or without their husbands, teaching other women's husbands and their
families. Misleading Christ's slaves to commit spiritual "fornication"
through the authority of "Ahab" men. (See Page 810). But "I have found you."
(1 Kings 21:20 22).
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