A month to go until 2014

by ballistic 16 Replies latest jw friends

  • TD
    TD

    I remember a JW Circuit Servant/Overseer in the 1960's made the following statement:

    "If you were an insect with a life span of only one day, and you happened to be born on a rainy day, rain is all you would know. It wouldn't mean that much to you. From Jehovah's perspective, our life spans are that short. He won't let the sign of the end become like rain for that insect."

    His point was that things couldn't drag on for decades more because it would defeat the whole purpose of a sign of the end, a warning work, a gathering of a great crowd of survivors, etc. It would be comparable to Noah and his family dying of old age inside the ark before a single drop of rain had fallen.

    I know it's fashionable for people on JWN who've observed JW's as outsiders for a relatively short time to state that the leaders and policy makers of this religion can say virtually anything and the rank and file willl follow. I couldn't disagree more.

    As Jim Penton observed, JW's are rationalists at heart. Their belief system is predicated on the notion of "Reasonableness." Is it "reasonable" for Jehovah to do this? Is it "reasonable" for Jehovah to do that? Would a loving God do this? Would a loving God do that?

    In that regard:

    It is not reasonable for a "Sign" to go on for so long that nobody alive remembers what life was like prior to it.

    It is not reasonable for a great crowd of survivors to be gathered in the mid 30's when even a 25 year old then would be at least 103 today.

    It is not reasonable for people to be marked on the foreheads for survival who will never live to see the event to survive.

    It is not reasonable to warn people about an imminent end if the end is not imminent.

    It is not reasonable for a loving God to raise false hopes

    It is not reasonable for Christians to endure the horrors of a concentration camp on account of their faith, only to grow old and die to await resurrection right along side their captors.

    The JW faith is like a paper sack loaded with heavy canned goods. It is being rained on by the JW's own brand of "reason." The fall of 2014 will be just a little more water. And we all know what happens when a paper sack gets wet....

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    TD, are you stating that there's a load of things that are unreasonable but just seem to go on, or are you saying there are things that just can't go on much longer?

  • TD
    TD
    TD, are you stating that there's a load of things that are unreasonable but just seem to go on, or are you saying there are things that just can't go on much longer?

    The latter of the two. From start to finish, the entire JW faith is tied in one way or another to the end occuring within the lifetime of those who hear the JW message. That idea is threaded into everything; from the title of their flagship publication (The Watchtower) to the numerous prophecies and 'types' they apply to themselves, to the two class system of slavation, to the very reason they go door to door in the first place.

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    Yes, you got it in a nutshell.

  • westiebilly11
    westiebilly11

    ..have they cancelled 2015 school schedule..?..no?....oh well......

  • cofty
    cofty

    Its a very compelling point TD.

    All those decades of preaching to people about the end makes no sense if they all die off before it comes.

    I agree that if they don't find a way to make it all sound reasonable they are going to have a crisis.

  • KateWild
    KateWild

    Still the END is nearer than when we first learned " The Truth."-DD

    Yes it's a classic one liner, to go with Prov 3.5,6 It stops the process of free thinking, well not with all of us . Kate xx

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