Restrangled, JWs don't know what they believe when it comes to creation of the Earth. Some believe in the more traditional Christian-literalism view of 6,000 years, but if you go back in the Society's literature they get all mixed up with each "day" being actually 6,000 years and so a total of 36,000 years for creation of the planet, but they haven't brought that old bone out for a while now. They usually just defer to some sort of oblique reference to not knowing exactly how long it was. When it comes to dinosaurs? Forget about it. Like I said, they don't know what they believe.
Things That Were "Confusing" To You as A JW
by minimus 48 Replies latest jw friends
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restrangled
Thanks DP.....I am sure it was the beginning of the end for me as a child.....everything was suspect after the above episode.
It was about 1968 at the time.
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daniel-p
That's quite an experience you had. How that wouldn't break a kid's heart and shatter their world, I don't know.
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undercover
did they not teach and believe that at one point?
Like Daniel pointed out, it was actually taught that each "creative day" was 6,000 years long.
I don't have references available but somewhere in one of the publications from long ago, I think it states that the earth is less than 50,000 years old. However, today they avoid those old teachings.
Look at an article on their website that talks about the creation of the earth. http://www.watchtower.org/e/20070215/article_02.htm Go down to the sub-heading "The Genesis Account of Creation" and see how vague they are about the creative days.
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daniel-p
The fact is that if you don't have an absolutely literal view of the Genesis account, the "creative days" could be any length of time. Coming up with an absurd 36,000 year creative episode was a leftover from the days when the religion was steeped in numerology.
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OUTLAW
Restrangled..Thats a terrible story!..LOL!!..Your mom really did a number on you..What a horrible thing to do to a kid!..............
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restrangled
I Just remember being taught that one day to us is actually 1000 years to God....so the the creative days wound up being 6000 years the 7th being His rest day....remember all the hoopla about it being 6000 years (after 1975 came and went...and they were not sure when Eve was created and that was the excuse for the delay of the end?) Adam couldn't have possibly carried on too long by himself after naming all the animals......does all that crap ring a bell with anyone?
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undercover
remember all the hoopla about it being 6000 years (after 1975 came and went...and they were not sure when Eve was created and that was the excuse for the delay of the end?) Adam couldn't have possibly carried on too long by himself after naming all the animals......does all that crap ring a bell with anyone?
Yep...I remember. Using the Society's timeline it was on the sixth creative day that man was created, thus the 6,000 years of that particular creative day was about up. That's why all the talk about 6,000 years ending.
And they did make a big deal about the difference in time between Adam's creation and Eve's creation and how that difference in time may be the difference in time between the end of the 6,000 years and when Armageddon actually happens. But like many other wacky WT doctrines, it faded away never to be mentioned again.
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restrangled
Wait a minute....when did they come up with 6000 years for each creative day......I thought it was 1000 man years equals 1 day for God?
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still-fading
A big one for me was "free will". I was raised hearing...what a loving god, creating us with free will to allow us to make up our own minds....how loving! I always though....we have free will but are forbidden to exercise it. If we chose not to serve, certain destruction. Which in turn made me think, what an egotistical god.
..OUTLAW