At the mouth of 2-3 witnesses a matter is established .Gods word the bible proves a generation is 50 years +, or - 5 years

by smiddy 28 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Splash

  smiddy Your making the mistake of thinking the total years of ones life is a generation.

  Taking all assumptions out of the equation and looking solely at the Bibles use of the term #generation we find this.

  What is the Bible's definition of a Generation:

  35 years: (Job 42:16, 17) "And Job continued living after this a hundred and forty years and came to see his sons and his grandsons—four generations.
  

  37 years: Jerusalem was destroyed about 37 years later when Jesus said "this generation will by no means pass away"

  38 years: Deut 2:14 - And the days that we walked from Ka′desh-bar′ne·a until we crossed the torrent valley of Ze′red were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war had come to their end.

  (Mt 1:17) "All the generations, then, from Abraham until David were fourteen generations, and from David until the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon until the Christ fourteen generations". When you read the list in Matthew, none of them are described as overlapping:
  65 years - Abraham to David : 2018BCE -> 1107BCE / 14 generations
  35 years - David to deportation : 1107BCE -> 607BCE / 14 generations
  45 years - Deportation to Christ : 607BCE -> 29CE / 14 generations
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  Vidiot

  When all is said and done...

  ...the two-witness rule has been applied so stringently in child abuse accusations because it's just too tempting to not use it.

  Virtually any other course of action would inevitably lead to honestly acknowledging something so severely f**ked-up in "God's Earthly Organization" that it calls that claim into question...

  ...and that is simply unacceptable.
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  smiddy

  Thank you Splash for adding those extra "proofs" from scripture that show how may years a generation is according to the Bible.

  It would be obvious to "Blind Freddy" that the J.W.`s have added to scripture ,with their current interpretation of :generations" thereby invoking the Lords displeasure.Deut.4:2

  smiddy
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  prologos

  so, if one generation would be from the birth of the father to his offspring, or a mother's age to her oldest daughter, a re-generation, carry on living, passing the baton, what is the limit? Gen 5:32: and Noah got to be 500 years old, After that he became father to Shem---.

  Shem at 500+, what a shame wt did not seize this, who needs overlapping, if you have more than half a millennium to play with.

  The Indianapolis 500, the Fortune 500 the No kids Noah 500.

  With just one overlap like that, wt could make the whole millennium "invisible" starting in 1914.
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  Splash

  You might be onto something there prologos.
  (Matthew 24:37) "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be."
  
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  kairos

  Thanks for putting this together.
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  Vidiot

  Splash - "You might be onto something there prologos. (Matthew 24:37) "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.""

  Wasn't Noah, like, 600 years old?
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  smiddy

  Bump , for those having difficulty understanding the Bibles definition of a generation.

  smiddy
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  smiddy

  For newbies to consider
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  prologos

  as I said on another thread: the wt generation is an anointed generation with 2, perhaps more overlapping groups, Anointed means the 144 000 of Rev. 14, the "- undefiled with woman-" The Freddy Franzes, that are not held to the reproductive father, son, grandson generation model, and then these are the sterile wt groups, wt:--oops.

  added: Jesus of course said that the generation would survive the destruction and would go on producing . the wt anointed generation, as charted, is supposed to be dead before the destruction, taken to heaven. From its conception, the wt anointed generation was a bible-doctrinal stillbirth, , the end of the 1914 line.