144000....DO THE NUMBERS ADD UP?????

chuckyy
greendawn

They certainly do not add up. The JWs claim that they had 52 000 of them in 1935 which leaves 92 000 for the rest of time that the Christian church existed that is for 1900 years. That number averages about 49 per year and it's simply ridiculously low. Likely there have been many times over 144000 "annointed".
greendawn

There were tens of thousands of martyrs and other faithful Christians that were not martyred in the Roman empire and outside during the first few centuries. Then there were groups like the Waldenses that the JWs aknowledge as genuine Christians, also the JWs that died before 1935 etc etc. We are talking of millions in all.