How many days are in the "last days"?
"This Shows We're Living In The Last Days"......Your response???
by minimus 40 Replies latest jw friends
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Blueblades
Let's compare two positions: Jehovah's Witnesses versus the Scriptures: God declared that no man would know the time; JW's stated over and over again that they knew the time ( 1874, 1878, 1914, 1925, 1975, etc. ) God said that the times and seasons were within his own power; JW's declared that they had the prophectic key given to them. Jesu stated, " No man knows the day or hour";JW's have set many days and hours over the years. History bears a bitter record of their many disappointments.
Blueblades
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minimus
Blue, a simpleton could comprehend this!
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dedpoet
Blue, a simpleton could comprehend this!
I agree, Min, but that simpleton would have to be capable of the power of
independent thought. How many jws do you know who are capable of that?
The ones that acquire that skill rarely stay jws for very long.dedpoet
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daystar
frelling
FAn of the Best show EVER!LOL! Absolutely.
After my divorce, my son and I bonded by, and really was helped to get through that time by, watching every single Farscape episode on DVD, then the Peacekeeper Wars.
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lesterd
those that died...it was their last days..happens everyday. When you die it is your armaggedon, that why the Bible says to live every day as your last.
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Terry
Atrocities happen all the time. Student mass murders, genocides, the ozone layer, the environment------you name it----it all points to what Witnesses assert as PROOF that this means we're living in the "last days of the last days"
How would you respond to such ones?
The "signs" of the Last Days are relative and not absolute.
Each of us can only live in and experience our own lifetime. All the rest we've only heard about or can speculate about.
The time in which we live is the most important (and therefore significant to us) time that ever has or will exist.
Even the most radically intelligent Christian in history has tried and failed to make the "signs" apply to their day and time.
The words used in such prophecies only make sense when applied to the 1st Century.
The apostles and disciples expected Jesus to return and finish his job while they were still alive.
This did NOT happen. Their expectation proved false.
Anything repeatedly proved false should be discounted as meaningless.
But, this preoccupation with prophecy, end times and such is a case study in insanity.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Applying Bible Prophecies to our day (or any other future day) is mental illness.
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drew sagan
Every generation has had its last days syndrome.
I was actually quite supried in the research done in the 'Sign of the Last Days, When?' book that shows the development of a number of modern day views of eschatology. Especially how much of it has really only taken off in the past 500 years or so (in the way of calculations as to when Christ would return).
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zack
The JW ORG. are led by essentially lazy people. The reasons they want the world to end is not so that righteousness rules and those little starving kids in Ethipoia get a decent shake at a good life. No. What they want is for the world to end so they don't have to take any responsibilty for their own futures.
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minimus
Understanding history is the key. JWs hide behind ignorance.