Unprofitable use of Time --WT 15th June '62

ThomasCovenant

While making unprofitable use of my time I found this WT Quote-

''For example, in all good faith one might ask,

What was Jehovah doing before he created Jesus, by whom he made all other things?

If Adam and Eve had repented, would God have forgiven them?

What happened to the bodies of those who perished in the Flood? Did the expensive gifts brought to the babe Jesus make Joseph and Mary rich for the rest of their lives?

What did Jesus do between the ages of twelve and thirty besides his carpentering?

How would Jehovah have redeemed the race if Jesus had not proved faithful?

Exactly how long did Jesus’ trip to heaven take? Much time could be spent conjecturing on such matters.

Likewise it is possible to spend valuable time speculating on matters concerning the future. One might ask,

In what year will Armageddon begin?

Will the faithful angels eventually receive immortality?

Will there be factories and machines in use after Armageddon?

Will men wear beards again?

What will be the medium of exchange in the new world?

Will women now past the age of childbearing share in the procreation mandate?

If dedicated parents and children happen to die before Armageddon, which parent will raise the resurrected children, since resurrected mates will not remarry? (Luke 20:35)

These are typical questions to which Jehovah has not provided answers at this time. Do you think it wise for Christians to take time from more profitable Bible study to speculate on the answers? Consider the dangers involved.''

teel

Some things have changed a whole lot since then haven't they? Today they would not dare to publish such thought provoking questions.

Profitable Bible study = reading what the Watchtower says. No independent thinking! No change in that area.

In what year will Armageddon begin?

Don't speculate on this, because we will speculate on it in a few years (WT from '62, just a few years before the '75 rush started), and then you will have to obey to our conclusion anyway.

WTWizard

The most unprofitable use of time: Wasting it in boasting sessions and field circus.

keyser soze

Unprofitable to the WTBT$.

VM44

Here's another question they didn't list.

"How many Governing Body members can dance on the head of pin?"

undercover

Apparently they didn't take their own advice...

Snuggled in the middle of all those silly things JWs shouldn't worry their dumb little heads about is this one:

In what year will Armageddon begin?

By the end of the decade, they were cranking up all the rhetoric about 1975...

If only they had considered the dangers involved with speculating on such matters...

straightshooter

If it is so unprofitable use of time, then why does the WTS address these questions, such as:

Do dedicated resurrected ones not remarry in the new world?

Why Adam and Eve would never repent of their wrongdoing?

What Joseph and Mary did with the expensive gifts?

When will Armageddon begin?

These have all been addressed in the WTS literature. So why has the GB wasted time on such subjects?

BluesBrother

15th June '62 they said it was "unprofitable" to ask

"Will men wear beards again? [after Armageddon?]"

but they themselves addressed the question in Wt 5/1 1968 p288

In paradise restored on earth it would not be out of order if men returned to wearing beards, in perfect fashion, like Adam.

Jim_TX

...that's 'old light'. They now have 'new light'.

...or brighter light...

...or darker dark...

Beginning to sound like a commercial for Tide detergent.

Regards,

Jim TX

kurtbethel

What was Jehovah doing before he created Jesus, by whom he made all other things?

I have considered this and concluded he did absolutely nothing, since doing something requires having something to act on and there was nothing to act on, therefore no possibility of doing anything for trillions of years. Going farther with this, there could not have been trillions of years before anything existed, or ever a picosecond, since time exists only in the sense that things change from one state to another, and with nothing existing nothing could happen and there is no meaningful way to reckon time. In conclusion, Jehovah only meaningfully did something at the moment of creation and beyond, but not before.

I shared this observations with my dubs, but they were not able to absorb the concept.

Unprofitable use of Time --WT 15th June '62

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