Can a Jehovah Witness Be Married to a non Jehovah Witness and be a true spouse?
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Most certainly she considers you her husband & you as the Head of the House, the following will explain it a little better\n\nThe wife, for her part, is to be in subjection to her husband. However, if she is affected by the spirit of the world, this may begin to undermine her view of the headship principle, and the idea of being in subjection to a man would not appeal to her. The Scriptures do not suggest that the man should be domineering, but they do require that wives be in subjection to their husbands. (Ephesians 5:24) The Bible also holds the husband or father accountable, and when its counsel is applied, this contributes to peace and order in the family.—Philippians 2:5.\n\nWives too have a measure of power in the family. The Bible tells of godly women who, within the framework of proper headship, took the initiative to influence their husbands in a positive way or to help them avoid errors in judgment. (Genesis 21:9-12; 27:46–28:2) A wife may have a keener mind than her husband has, or she may have other abilities that he does not have. Yet, she is to have “deep respect” for her husband and to “be in subjection” to him “as to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:22, 33) Thinking in terms of pleasing God can help a wife to use her abilities to support her husband rather than belittling him or trying to dominate him. Such a “truly wise woman” cooperates closely with her husband to build up the family. She thereby maintains peace with God.—Proverbs 14:1.\n\nThinking in terms of pleasing God can help a wife overlook her husband’s shortcomings and be subject to him without resentment. At times, a wife may feel obliged to speak her mind. Proverbs 31:26 says of the capable wife: “Her mouth she has opened in wisdom, and the law of loving-kindness is upon her tongue.”\n\nHowever, a good wife is more than just submissive. She tries to be a real helper, being supportive of her husband in the decisions he makes. Of course, that is easier for her when she agrees with his decisions. But even when she does not, her active support can help his decision to have a more successful outcome.\n\nA wife can help her husband to be a good head in other ways. She can express appreciation for his efforts in taking the lead, instead of criticizing him or making him feel that he can never satisfy her. In dealing with her husband in a positive way, she should remember that a “quiet and mild spirit . . . is of great value in the eyes of God,” not just in the eyes of her husband. (1 Peter 3:3, 4; \n\nWifely subjection does not mean that a wife must always comply with everything a husband wishes. What makes the difference? When right principles are at stake, she may have to disagree with her husband. Even so, she should still display the overall spirit of godly subjection.\n\nOf course, a wife should be careful not to bypass her husband’s wishes out of willfulness, spite, or other wrong motives. She must be discerning, \n\nA Christian wife’s subjection to her husband is relative. This means that God rather than man must be obeyed if submitting in a certain matter would result in violating divine law.\n\n“Let wives be in subjection to their husbands.” (Ephesians 5:22) How a wife is affected by this arrangement depends on two things: First, how willing is she to submit to the arrangement? and second, how will her husband exercise his authority? In truth, when both marriage partners view the arrangement properly, they find that it is a blessing for the wife, the husband, and their children.
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The Jehovah's Witness religion does *NOT* forbid, restrict, or "punish" those who date (as long as they are 'free to marry' legally and Scripturally). That does not mean that dating implies any promise to marry, but it does mean that a person must be single, widowed, or properly divorced and be of sufficient age to marry in his state or country; clearly that would exclude pre-teens and young teenagers almost everywhere.\n\nIf there are local customs or personal/family preferences which are stricter than that, please understand them as such.\n\nIt is true that Jehovah's Witnesses value chastity and virtue, and believe the bible's teaching that sexual relations are only appropriate within marriage. The bible instructs underage children to obey their parents, so a particular Witness parent may have a family rule against dating. In some places, chaperones or 'group dating' may seem mandatory due to local sensibilities, but neither of these is a requirement of the bible for Jehovah's Witnesses.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses are greatly deferential to local sensibilities with regard to courtship and marriage. For example, in tribal areas where it is the custom, Jehovah's Witness parents and grooms may choose to ask for and pay a reasonable "bride price". In parts of India and Pakistan, Witness youths may choose to go along with an arranged marriage by their parents, especially if their "betrothed" is also a Witness. Of course, the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses decide for themselves regarding with whom they will pursue, continue, and perhaps solemnize a relationship.\n\nAs a religious minority who greatly prefer to marry only within their faith, it is true that finding a life partner can be challenging for a devout Jehovah's Witness. Each congregation is scheduled for three large assemblies each year, ideally spaced about four months apart. Hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses attend each of these all-day or multi-day meetings; in addition to the formal discourses, each Witness is encouraged to freely associate in the hours before and after the program and during the 90-minute (approx) noontime break.\n\nAlso, their 'regional building' organizations typically coordinate hundreds or thousands of volunteers from several counties or states to converge on projects to build or renovate houses of worship quickly and efficiently, and to respond to disasters as needed. Anyone 18 or over can volunteer on his own, and a 17- or 16-year-old can do so alongside a designated adult.\n\nThere are other opportunities for Jehovah's Witnesses to widen their social circles within the faith, and they are encouraged to do so with a view to upbuilding one another. Of course, the young people may have more on their minds than simple encouragement (nudge nudge, wink wink).\n\n(Hebrews 10:24-25) Let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, 25 not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as you behold the day drawing near.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/worship.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_14.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20000715/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20040608/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050822/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19990215/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20040508a/article_01.htm
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These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.\n\n1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.\n\n2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.\n\n3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.\n\n4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.\n\n5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.\n\n6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.\n\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/article_07.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/who.htm\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
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they can. my best frineds sister is mormon and married a jehova whitness. And I've been to many weddings with a cathcolic bride (or groom) and the other is Jew.
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YES. The religion is the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses.  We worship the Father and only him.  We believe in Jesus, but do not believe they are one.  We believe in the Holy Spirit, but not that it is equal to Jehovah God or Jesus, but that it is God's will to do something.  If you (or anyone else who reads this, for that matter) are looking for more information, please contact me.
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I'm a Jehovah's Witness and I get the Mormons every year. They're very friendly and we always have a nice conversation. They tell me a little about their beliefs and I tell them a little about mine. Once in awhile they come at a bad time and that's okay. I just tell them love to chat but...
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Jehovah's witnesses don't always come in pairs or as same sex pairs. You may be thinking of Mormons. The Mormons are always in pairs and always young guys.\n\nI tend to invite those folks in. Most tend to be fairly ok in talking religion, especially when you consider I don't believe in the bible or God, and am a Buddhist, but I never got the feeling any were gay.\n\nThe Jehovah's witnesses occasionally get a bit frutrated that I don't accept the bible as any sort of proof of anything, but most are ok.
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What about the marriages performed by a judge? And it can't just be Christian ceremonies, there's Jewish, Catholic, and many other ceremonies performed everyday, freedom of religion. Is the person performing the Wiccan hand fasting acknowledged by the court systems?
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NO. your not officially married until it is signed by a minister/priest/judge ect..
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As one of Jehovah's witnesses, I can honestly tell you that yes going door to door is part of being a JW and that every one of us does it. The reason we go from door to door is a biblica command. Since you dont want quotes i won't put it here but there is a biblical reason for everything we practice including going from door to door. If you ask any Jehovah's Witness they can show you from your own bible. If you don't want Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on your door just tell them. We respect the wishes of others and if you ask us not to come back then we wont. I hope that answers your question.
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That's tough. I studied w/ them for a while when I was younger in my quest to find the truth and found them to be somewhat cultish. I am surprised he is with you being that JW's don't date outside of 'the truth'. I finally had my eyes opened when the lady I was studying wouldn't let her daughter play w/ mine because mine was "of this world" and her's was not. I sent her and her little martian packing. Good luck.
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What does her being a Jehovah's Witness have to do with anything?
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if you do get married you will proably be unhappy,might get devorcide,and you kids might get confusied and what if the want to be witnesses what would you say,how about you talk to her find out what she wants,settle the issues about religion,kids whatever before you get engadged and if you do get married tell he that you like your religion and not to try to make you become a witness,but listen,she will probaly bring witnesses to the house talk about how good the meeting are and if you can handle and deal with that and she can to,then go ahead but if she isn't baptised then she can't get baptised.if you love her you will respect her wishes even if she won't marry you,the bible says "marry in the lord and in the lord only."
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Jehovah allowed polygamy among his ancient servants, the Israelites, but he does not allow it now. Is his standard changeable?\n\nJehovah has not changed his view of polygamy. (Psalm 19:7; Malachi 3:6) It was not part of his arrangement for humans from the beginning, and it is not now. When he created Eve as a wife for Adam, Jehovah stated that the divine standard was one wife for one husband. “That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.”—Genesis 2:24.\n\nWhen Jesus Christ was on the earth, he restated this position in answer to those who asked about divorce and remarriage. He said: “Did you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’? So that they are no longer two, but one flesh.” Jesus added: “Whoever divorces his wife, except on the ground of fornication, and marries another commits adultery.” (Matthew 19:4-6, 9) From this it is obvious that taking one or more additional wives is also adultery.\n\nThen why was polygamy allowed in ancient times? Keep in mind that Jehovah did not originate the practice. The first one mentioned in the Bible as having more than one wife was Lamech, a descendant of Cain. (Genesis 4:19-24) When Jehovah brought the Flood of Noah’s day, Noah and his three sons each had only one wife. All polygamists were destroyed in the Flood.\n\nCenturies later when Jehovah chose the Israelites as his people, polygamy already existed among them, although it apparently was far more common to have just one wife. God did not require families to break up where there was more than one wife. Instead, he strictly regulated the practice.—Exodus 21:10, 11; Deuteronomy 21:15-17.\n\nThat this toleration of polygamy was only temporary can be seen not only by what Jesus stated regarding Jehovah’s original standard for marriage but also by what the apostle Paul wrote under the inspiration of God’s holy spirit. He said: “Let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:2) Paul also was inspired to write that any man appointed as an overseer or a ministerial servant in the Christian congregation must be “a husband of one wife.”—1 Timothy 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6.\n\nThus, Jehovah’s toleration of polygamy came to an end with the formation of the Christian congregation some 2,000 years ago. At that time, the standard for marriage returned to what it was at the beginning of God’s creation of man and woman: one husband, one wife. It is the standard today among God’s people throughout the entire world.—Mark 10:11, 12; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10.
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Yes. Their formal name is "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses".\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/archives/index.htm#jws\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/index.htm
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No they can't. In some states, a justice of the peace can perform marriages. Georgia is one of those states.\n\nG\nGeorgia\nLicensed or ordained ministers, clergymen, or pastors of recognized religious societies, and justices of the peace.
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It rather depends.  In a worst case scenario, assuming everyone is baptized, the two prospective spouses exchange vows in the presence of two witnesses.  There is no obligation that they have civil authority or that they are ordained to the ministry.  This assumes the ordinary method is unavailable.  Jesus said, "Whereever two or more are gathered in my name, I am there."  Therefore, marriage creates a church (an ecclesia or community of God).  As such, it should be celebrated within the community of believers, preferrably by a bishop or presbyter.  The Roman Patriarchate also permits Deacons to officiate weddings.\n\nIn the Eastern Church matrimony is separate from the divine liturgy, in the West it usually is included as part of the Mass.\n\nIf any of the above are not baptized, then its sacramentality is open to question per both Paul and Peter.