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Hi to all, I know a brother who caught his wife cheating on him with another woman (the cleaner of the house). His wife is a sister also but in a moment of weakness she went to bed with her servant lady. The brother caught them naked on bed kissing and brought some brothers to witness the event. Although he has witnesses and everything he cannot have a scriptural divorce to remarry. Because he don't want to see this woman in his lifetime again, the elders gave him two options if he wants to remarry:
1. to wait for his wife to die and then remarry or...
2. to wait for her to fornicate (porneia) with a man (although she is a lesbian now).

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Not sure how "he brought some brothers" to serve as witnesses to this incident. Matt 5:32 However, as you probably know, porneia is not dependent on the sex of the persons involved. So, a pr

*** w72 12/15 p. 768 Questions From Readers ***  (continuation from above) Taking Jesus’ words for what they mean, therefore, when a mate is guilty of such serious sexual immorality the innocent

So in the same Watchtower magazine we have 2 different opinions.But I think your is the right one because is some months later. But still this makes me think who wrote the first one !

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Look I was not present, this is what the brother say ( like if he was gossiping). He say he cannot scripturally divorce because no girl have instrument and thus there were no penetration and thus no divorce ! what can I say?

personally I think lesbianism is porneia even without penetration, but elders say otherwise. I heard that in America is an "everyday" problem this with homosexual brothers and sisters. so I ask this question...

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*** w04 2/15 pp. 13-14 pars. 14-15 Maintain Chastity by Safeguarding Your Heart ***

 

15 The Greek word por·neiʹa, translated “fornication,” has a fairly broad meaning. It relates to sexual relations involving persons not married to each other and focuses on the misuse of the sexual organs. Por·neiʹa includes such acts as oral sex, anal sex, and masturbating another person—conduct commonly associated with houses of prostitution. People who think that such acts are not “fornication” are fooling themselves and have fallen victim to one of Satan’s snares. (2 Timothy 2:26) Furthermore, maintaining chastity means more than merely refraining from any act that constitutes fornication. To “flee from fornication,” we must avoid all forms of sexual uncleanness and loose conduct that could lead to the gross sin of por·neiʹa. (Ephesians 4:19) In that way we maintain chastity.

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Dear Melinda mills thanks for the sexual education (and the exegesis on porneia), but the two women made nothing of that! They did not have oral sex, they did not have anal sex, they did not masturbate each other. Elders forbid this brother (the victim) to talk anymore about his problem and they showed him that no matter what he does he cannot remarry ... and they prove that from the watchtower magazine:

"While both homosexuality and bestiality are disgusting perversions, in the case of neither one is the marriage tie broken." Watchtower 1972 Jan 1 p.32.
 

since you are a woman imagine your husband to have sex with the dog (bestiality) and you not to have the right to remarry !


my question still stands !

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*** w83 3/15 Honor Godly Marriage! ***

Read the article, especially the section on Marriage.

Footnote:

The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology states, for example, that porneia means “unchastity, harlotry, prostitution, fornication.” It also says: “The word-group [involving porneia] can describe various extra-marital sexual modes of behaviour insofar as they deviate from accepted social and religious norms (e.g. homosexuality, promiscuity, paedophilia [sexual abuse of children], and especially prostitution).” Thus, porneia would include adultery (Greek, moikheia), and can cover a broader range of other immoral practices outside marriage, such as oral or anal sex and bestiality.

The 1979 edition of the highly regarded Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (by Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich) defines porneia as “prostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse.”

This is an amplification and adjustment in understanding of what appears in The Watchtower of November 15, 1974, pages 703-704, and of February 15, 1978, pages 30-32. Those who acted on the basis of the knowledge they had at the time are not to be criticized. Nor would this affect the standing of a person who in the past believed that a mate’s perverted sexual conduct within marriage amounted to porneia and, hence, obtained a divorce and is now remarried.

The Watchtower of September 15, 1973, pages 574-576.

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1 hour ago, Melinda Mills said:

 

*** w72 12/15 pp. 767-768 Questions From Readers ***

What, then, is the significance of the Bible’s use of these terms and what does it reveal as to the valid Biblical grounds for divorce? It shows that any married person who goes outside the marriage bond and engages in immoral sexual relations, whether with someone of the opposite sex or someone of the same sex, whether natural or unnatural and perverted, is guilty of committing por·neiʹa or “fornication” in the Bible sense. Such sexual relations do not refer to minor indiscretions a person might commit, as by a kiss or caress or embrace, but refer to immoral use of the genital organs in some form of intercourse, natural or unnatural.

We find principles in the Law covenant in support of this broadened viewpoint. It is clear that under that Law marriages were dissolved when a mate committed serious sexual sins, including unnatural ones, inasmuch as such mate was put to death according to God’s own instructions.—Compare Exodus 22:19; Leviticus 18:22, 23, 29; 20:10-16; Deuteronomy 22:22; as well as the words of the Christian apostle at Romans 1:24-27, 32.

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