I understand you, but I'm on the other side. I'm of the "anointed" and so the Bible must be true and its prophesies fulfilled. So I'm seeing a different interpretation. you said:
One thing I learned from the WBT$ is that a scripture can be used to prove almost anything!.
But I don't see that is really being true. For instance, the 70th week deals with math. If the 70th week was from 29-36 CE for the first coming, then the 70th week for subsequent periods is a definite, absolute period of time of 7 years. Thus look at this:
36 CE ends the first 70th week.
Add 490 years to see when the end of 70th weeks occur in subsequent centuries. Simple math.
36 + 490 = 526 AD
526 = 490 = 1016 AD
1016 + 490 = 1506 AD
1506 + 490 = 1996 AD
So 1996 ends another 70th week. That 70th week would be from 1989-1996. Now that is a limited interpretation and very specific.
Now the 1290 days and 1335 days prophecy can be applied many ways, I agree with you. The WTS used to think it dated the second coming in 1874. Now it dates some publication of theirs coming out in 1922 or something! Clearly wrong. But some think the 1260 days relates to the Balfour agreement in 1917 and the 1290 days to 1947 when the Jews came out of exile. So they also conclude that the 1335 days, which is 45 years later, has to occur in 1992. This is just one interpretation, but if you think the 1335 days applies to when Christ is supposed to arrive in 1992-1993, then you compare that to the 70th week prophecy, which is also when the Christ is supposed to arrive in the middle of the week at the 2nd coming, then you are looking at the same year! So sometimes the coordination of two different prophecies show you what must be the correct interpretation!
Now as far as the Bible being a book of "myths", I see that as a convenient way to get out of paying attention to anything in the Bible. But after doing some chronology research in archaeology for ancient Egypt, I discovered that the Exodus occurred at the time of the pharaoh Akhenaten who is known for suddenly converting to monotheism along with the entire nation of Egypt! That would support the 10 plagues happening at this time! So I can't just think of the Bible or the 10 plagues as a myth when we have archaeological evidence that fits this dramatic event at this time in Egyptian history. Thus, simply based on my secular research, I find that the Bible is not a book of myths but true history. Besides that, we hae secular records in various surrounding pagan nations confirming the existence of the people in the Bible, especially from the time of Jehu and Ahab, down through the Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods! So even YOU must agree that every single thing in the Bible is not mythical. I acn accept you doubting things that can't be proven, but the fact is, many things can be and that adds to the validity of the Bible.
Here's a video on the Exodus and Akhenaten you might find interesting. In the meantime, Satan's academic world is full of lies and deceptions and tries to distract from the truth, so many actually think there is no secular evidence of the Bible's history. This is simply not the case!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpkK6XoqRQo
