Seven Thousand Year Creative Day still being taught (as of 2005)

by VM44 43 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • RayPublisher
    RayPublisher

    Well I heard something really amazing about this a couple years ago you can take it for what it's worth:

    When the Aid book was being revised and transformed into the Insight book, the main brother editing the job saw the 7,000 year creative day thing and traced it back to a Jewish rabbi that taught that. He called the head of writing and said that's where this 7,000 year creative day idea comes from, and I think we should drop this- it's gotta go.

    And he agreed and so they did. These two brothers right then and there snipped it out and also it was taken out of the SI book (All Scriptures) around the same time, which would have been late 1980s when the Insight books came out.

  • undercover
    undercover

    From the Reasoning book quote that was mentioned earlier, it's apparent that the WTS is reduced to explaining that since it is indisputable that the earth and heavens are millions of years old, the 7 creative days of 7,000 years each (49,000 years) does not apply to the actual planet or the heavens...

    *** rs p. 88 Creation ***

    Genesis 1:3-31 is not discussing the original creation of matter or of the heavenly bodies.It describes the preparation of the already existing earthfor human habitation. This included creation of the basic kinds of vegetation, marine life, flying creatures, land animals, and the first human pair. All of this is said to have been done within a period of six “days.”

    The WTS conveniently ignores this verse, which torpedoes the above reasoning:

    Exodus 31:17 "'Between me and the sons of Israel it is a sign to time indefinite, because in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth and on the seventh day he rested and proceeded to refresh himself.’”
  • wallsofjericho
    wallsofjericho

    marked

  • 88JM
    88JM

    Our public talk on Sunday was related to this subject, though there was no mention of the length of "creative days":

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/249144/1/Crazy-public-talk-on-Sunday-The-Origin-of-Humans-Does-It-Matter-What-You-Believe

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