Oh, just now saw the post about Acts 13:19-20.
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This scripture is the one that Russell used to establish 1872/1873 as being 6,000 years of man's existence from Adam's creation.
Up until the early 1960's WT accepted this timeline. When Freddie Franz came up with his entire "1975 is the real date of 6,000 years of man's existence from Adam" nonsense, WTs excuse for using the old, flawed timeline was that they were the victims of a "poor translation" of Acts 13 in the KJV. In other words, it was god's fault. It was bad enough god gave WT a Bible that was inaccurate, but he didn't bother to tell his "sole channel of communication on earth", his "faithful slave", the WT, that they had been wrong for the last 100 years. Of course, 1975 is also wrong.
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"In this chapter we present the Bible evidence which indicates that six thousand years from the creation of Adam were complete with A.D. 1872; and hence that, since A.D. 1872 are chronologically entered upon the seventh thousand or the Millennium." (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 2, p. 33, 1889)
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"According to this trustworthy Bible chronology six thousand years from man's creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E Six thousand years of man's existence on earth will soon be up, yea within this generation. The rein of Christ...to run parallel with the 7th millennium ..." (Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God, 1966, p. 29-30)
