For decades, it has been obvious to me and many others that when Jesus spoke of those who will be resurrected, saying they will be as angels- not marrying- he spoke of those who will experience the first resurrection and not the masses who will receive an earthly resurrection.
The Watchtower has stubbornly insisted otherwise, defying all common sense. It seemed to me that they were deliberately torturing those who had lost mates and who looked to the resurrection as a way to be reunited with them simply because they had the power to do so. No doubt, the Watchtower’s insistence that the resurrected will not marry has caused many to grieve unnecessarily.
Now, though, as with a host of other things, the Watchtower has unceremoniously changed its point of view—-—doing so in an out-of-the-way Question from Readers column. Instead of assertively pointing out the implications of its new teaching, they caution against being dogmatic and speculating, as if no one can really be sure what Jesus meant.
Their reasoning for having erroneously taught that resurrected humans will not marry was supposedly because the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection. What lame reasoning, though. Why would Jesus even concern himself with confining his answer to appease those who did not believe in the first place? Jesus, in fact, never answered his tempters and critics in ways they expected him to. And he often spoke to a higher truth than his hearers could grasp. Apparently, the Governing Body has more in common with the Sadducees than they realize.
The Society’s density of mind is intolerable. I just wonder how much longer Jehovah will tolerate this organization, which plays with the truth like a deck of playing cards.
