Is the end really coming? (page 4)

Doug Mason

People have been saying "the end is nigh" in every century, including the very first.

The end will come when I get run over by a bus, and that's really scary!

The real problem is that the WTS does not tell people what the Gospel is. If JWs were told, they would never be scared. But that is not in the WTS's interest, is it?

The Gospel: God offers salvation as a FREE GIFT, because Jesus' perfect life, death and resurrection is accounted to the believer -- simply by asking. Now if that's not good news, I don't know.

The WTS keeps heaping fear upon fear, but God offers peace. Grab it with both hands.

The WTS tries to lock people out of the Kingdom, just as the religious leaders tried in Jesus' time. Stay with them if you want to, but ignore their self-seeking "warnings" and listen to the plain word of God.

Doug

greendawn

Jwfacts just a small clarification, the Bible students didn't yet exist in 1878, what we had then were basically followers of the adventist Barbour, Russell being one of these. The 1874 date (invisible return of Jesus) and the 1878 date (rapture of the saints) were calculated by Barbour as was later the 1914 date. When the rapture of 1878 failed he lost most of his followers including the then 26 year old Russell who began publishing the Watchtower magazine and gathering followers in 1879.

Abandoned

"The end, even if shall delay, will be right on time." I'm paraphrasing, but this one line oughta be a heads up to those who think the bible is the unquestionable word of god. Not because of the apparent contradiction it contains, but because of the mind-control language it supports. This line is an enabler. Just as bad as the man who let's his wife cheat on him or his kids tell him to f*** off.

DJK

There will be an end to this earth someday. It wont be caused by some supreme being. Possibly a cataclismic event, but more likely by man himself. For those who fear an end, fear death, they have god and the prospect of paradise to comfort them.

Pubsinger

Can I just introduce a different perspective here.

I left but remained a believer (in Christ not WT!)

I don't confess to understand everything about "The End" or "Armageddon related interpretation" but it's just not my focus anymore. All this "must get it in order for the final day stuff"

I believe it's coming. But my focus is on the positive stuff of my faith. If I die before it comes I feel my hope is secure.

So I think the answer to the question is yes. When? Doesn't really matter.

Got much life to live to worry about it.

proplog2

Some people need a date to look forward to:

March 7 2008

Well - it is a future date isn't it?

Handsome Dan

A concentrated group of lies to create power........and it works !

5go

BrentR

What about the declaration of "peace and security and then sudden destruction"? Peace and security is not going to occur in our lifetimes and probably not in several more lifetimes. What would have to change on this planet for people to declare peace and security? Have the JW's abandoned that scripture?

No more wars.

No more nuclear weapons

No more crime

No more disease

No more poverty

Even if all that was gone we still would have natural disasters to contend with, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial.

Is the end really coming?

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