BBC Homepage Re End of the World . JW's mentioned

by ThomasCovenant 3 Replies latest jw friends

  • ThomasCovenant
    ThomasCovenant

    Hi

    On the BBC News homepage there is an article about the fascination with the end of the world.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7600966.stm

    ''The Jehovah's Witnesses have issued countless predictions about cataclysmic scenarios that have manifestly failed to come to pass, only ceasing predictions of the end in recent years. Failed predictions seem not to have alienated core believers.''

    FAILED PREDICTIONS Jehovah's Witnesses have predicted end several times, but have stopped Millerites predicted end of world for 22 October 1844 - day known to followers as Great Disappointment Edgar C Whisenant wrote 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 - followed up with predictions for 1989, 1993, and 1994 Argentinian goalie Carlos Roa gave up football in anticipation of end of world in 2000 Hal Lindsey in 1970's The Late, Great Planet Earth linked end of world to the EU Thanks Thomas Covenant

  • DaCheech
    DaCheech

    cool beans

  • whereami
    whereami

    Check out what this clown wrote:

    Just read through your article, and thought I'd pipe up and say that Jehovah's Witnesses have never given an actual date or time for the end of the world, nor have they ceased to. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, Armageddon, or "the end of the world", as it's described here, is one of the Bible's core teachings, and something we look forward to. While some dates and years have been bandied about by our members over the years, none have been officially endorsed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
    Dan, Wolverhampton, UK

  • Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    ''The Jehovah's Witnesses have issued countless predictions about cataclysmic scenarios that have manifestly failed to come to pass, only ceasing predictions of the end in recent years. Failed predictions seem not to have alienated core believers.''

    Yes, but look how neatly dressed they are, and how well-behaved their children are !

    Surely they couldn't be false prophets dreaming of the day everyone will die and they'll get to live in our houses.

    B the X

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