The endless generation, a TWISTED bible problem

by prologos 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  prologos

  the hundrets of 'bible writers' and compilers have set up a tome that was used to spin phantasic yarns, with people yearning to be the central characters in the END period. Stories of intervention by God that never came. In these stories:

  Jesus tought that the end, his glorious return, would come in the apostle's generation.

  The writers of 'Paul's' letters have him say that he would survive to the "coming of the lord" and the faithful dead would be resurrected before his death. so:

  from pentecost to now there were always believers who seriously thought that they were living in the time of the END OF THE WORLD, not just their natural end. but

  This was not always a 'PRETZEL' reasoning like the WT's ongoing convoluted "2 groups = 1 generation" concept.

  it is more like a never ending 'we live in the end' mental condition, a time concept like the one surface MOEBIUS strip,

  TWISTED.

  from the talking snake to the trumpt - up apocaliptic trumpet assemblies, it is twisted.

  would somebody put up a Pretzel and a Moebius?
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  DATA-DOG

  

  I imagine that we are all going to live and die. We will see if Hebrews 9:27 is true. There is certainly more evidence for that scripture, than for "paradise earth."

  DD
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  Crazyguy

  And to add to it the last book of the bible said he would return so that those that pierced him would see and in the last chapter there are 5 references to the end being so close at hand including one were John is told not to seal up the prophecy since the end was so close.
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  Xanthippe

  from pentecost to now there were always believers who seriously thought that they were living in the time of the END OF THE WORLD, not just their natural end. but

  This was not always a 'PRETZEL' reasoning like the WT's ongoing convoluted "2 groups = 1 generation" concept.

  it is more like a never ending 'we live in the end' mental condition, a time concept like the one surface MOEBIUS strip,

  TWISTED.

  Yes in difficult times all through history since the first century Christians have said this must be 'the end time' Jesus spoke of. For example in the Reformation, for Protestants, Babylon the Great was fulfilled in Rome and the Pope. God would surely act to rid the world of the papists and bring in a new world order.
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  prologos

  'Pretzel' logic compliments of MAUIBOY and thanks for the images DATA DOG. your pretzel has more contortions than the ones I ate.

  really these bible writers and forgers did not write for the 21 th century , but for THEIR time, contemporaries.

  follow that 'generation surface' of the Moebius, and it goes on forever.
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  prologos

  could anybody, I mean it would be a somebody, write "generation" on that "endless" surface-strip, and find a single-strand braided PRETZEL.?

  a 'never ending generation' clearly exposed, symbolized, would be a WT's nightmare.
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  exWTslave

  "These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come." (1 Corinthians 10:11)

  The writer of this book CLEARLY believed the END would come in 1st century AD itself!!!
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  kaik

  If you read early christian writtings, they believed that the end was about to happen. Many pagans find that amusing after decades and centuries had passed. It was much later when Christianity pushed the idea that Jesus was ruler since his resurrection. When Goths sacked the Rome in 410, Christian thought that the physical return of Jesus was imminent. They could not imagine a world where Rome could not rule. They expected only divine power capable to rule over the world after disintegration of the Roman Empire. Thousands and thousand of Christians throughout the Roman empire in the event following the sack waited for the Messiah. St. Augustine eventually wrote his monumental book, City of God where he pushed idea of the invisible kingdom of God in the heaven and early kingdom were only temporary. Either way, the Christians of the Roman Empire thought that they were the last generation. 1800 years ago!
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  prologos

  so: thank you all for pointing that out. so:

  Wt GB FuDS are really 'Johnny- come- lates'.

  Calling OUTLAW to put "endless generation on the moebius strip. please. make our day.
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  steve2

  Predictions of the end never end.