Water Canopy? Huh?

by Mr. Falcon 116 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Mr. Falcon

  I'd have to do what the WTBS does and saw off the ends of some puzzle pieces and MAKE them fit.

  This statement gave me flashbacks to when my mother would teach me that the Flood is the reason for the dinosaurs extinction. And being a young boy obsessed with dinosaurs, I asked her about how come there aren't any plesiosaurs since they lived completely in water and ate sealife. Therefore even a global deluge wouldn't be able to kill them off. She told me to "wait on Jehovah. He'll explain what happened in the New System."
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  VM44

  Found it.

  The most recent mention of the water canopy appears on page 26 of the March 15, 2011 issue of The Watchtower.

  
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  FollowedMyHeart

  "The fact that today we do not have a vast water canopy suspended high up in space and all around our globe and thus blocking direct sunlight, moonlight and starlight"

  Did the writers of that watchtower artical in the OP even read what they wrote? They say, themselves, that the canopy would have blocked sunlight! How in the he** could there have been any life, let alone wickedness, to merit a flood???
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  J. Hofer

  i got one of rutherford's books around here somewhere containing a picture about a few rings around earth, electrode rings if i remember correctly... i don't remember what the story was about, but i might just look it up when i find the time...
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  Mr. Falcon

  VM44, thank you for posting that. That is postively outrageous that they printed that in this day and age.

  it's lewd, lascivious, salacious,............OUTRAGEOUS!

  FollowedMyHeart - crazy isn't it? It's like they are living in the Dark Ages. I'm surprised they don't print that the world is flat.
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  LostGeneration

  Thanks VM44, that is what I was thinking of. Since it hadn't been discussed for a long time in WT publications for a long time I thought they had quietly dropped the idea.

  I'm not too familiar with young earth creationists, if this is one of their theories then the WT looks pretty dumb by aligning themselves with one of their theories while at the same time stating that the creative "days" took untold amounts of time.
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  Morbidzbaby

  FollowedMyHeart - crazy isn't it? It's like they are living in the Dark Ages. I'm surprised they don't print that the world is flat

  Give them time, dear Falcon...
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  Morbidzbaby

  "The fact that today we do not have a vast water canopy suspended high up in space and all around our globe and thus blocking direct sunlight, moonlight and starlight"

  I think my IQ just dropped a few points... I might start drooling any minute...
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  Mr. Falcon

  I'm not too familiar with young earth creationists, if this is one of their theories then the WT looks pretty dumb by aligning themselves with one of their theories while at the same time stating that the creative "days" took untold amounts of time.

  Forgive this stupid question, but I've never really understood just what the devil JWs are talking about when they discuss the creative "days". What exactly is the official JW stand on this? Do they believe in 6 literal days or what? I was raised a JW and I have no idea. Scary.
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  simon17

  Falcon,

  They believe the creative "days" to not be literal days but instead by "possibly thousands of years" each, which of course is scientifically maddening in terms of the scale but technically correct.

  So they are in the difficult position of having to denounce young earth creationists as scientifically ignorant while eschewing the entire scientific cummunity with the other hand in railing on evolution, carbon dating, etc while supporting a global deluge 4000 years ago!