by Lionel_P_Hartley 3 Replies latest jw friends
To JW's everywhere - can you supply the most recent reference from the literature that tells how long a creative day is? And, can you supply the most recent reference to a "creative day" for comparison? If you're not sure of the answer, perhaps you should write to the Society and ask. I'm anxious to know.
Let me gamble on how many replies this thread generates from faithful JWs...
Lionel
No Im not a current JW
But anyway the JWs official belief has not changed ,that is a creative day is 7000 years,they dont talk much in more recent literature about it and if you asked most witnesses they would fudge the issue by saying the creative days were not literal days but very long periods of time,they have never recounted on their Fred Franze era teaching that the creative days are equal periods of 7000 years,and that we are now near the end of the last day,the rest day,which would end at the end of the 1000 year reign.
I dont think that the watchtower mentions this definition now because that would put the start of the creative days as about 48000 years ago and the realm of mammals like dinasours much more recent still which is would not wash well with educated people.
Hi Lionel,
:"Let me gamble on how many replies this thread generates from faithful JWs..."
Er, did you gamble on zero?
We have discussed this several times over the past few months. The Creation book isn't specific on any period length. For a while after that book was published the 7000 year time period was still being used in the Watchtower regarding the 7th creative day. Like most dates and time periods the WTS has shyed away from setting dates that can be easily disproved. However, they haven't been very specific about the changes.
For myself I believe Genesis days are meant to be "days" in the sense we all know and love. However, I don't believe the creation stories in Genesis should be taken as a true and scientific record of creation either. Life on Earth has been around for a very, very long time.
Thirdson
'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'
For myself I believe Genesis days are meant to be "days" in the sense we all know and love.
That's exactly it. The problem with fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible (JW or otherwise) is that they always end up making the Bible say what it clearly does not say. I think the "WT meaning-twisting and rationalization award" goes to the word soon. When it appears in the New Testament, soon means 2000 years. When it appears in old magazines and books, it means many decades.
JJ
