by Glenmore 4 Replies latest watchtower bible
I have been busy, and then on vacation, and stuff and stuff. So today was the first logon for me in a while. How are you all?
I was reading the Lawrence Hughes' post via Free Minds and I noticed he had 2005 on his placard as a failed prophecy along with 1914 1925 etc. What was that all about?
(btw, the column in the Calgary press was not about that specifcally, it related to the sad loss of his teenage daughter from WTS misrule)
Glen
It's on Quotes' website:
No, you did not miss anything.
I was reading the Lawrence Hughes' post via Free Minds and I noticed he had 2005 on his placard as a failed prophecy along with 1914 1925 etc. What was that all about?
Wouldn't we have to wait until 2006 to know for sure that it's a failed prophecy?
The notions that 2005 and 2034 are "prophecies" are a little bit of a stretch. It doesn't compare to the 1914, 1918 and 1925 predictions at all. Even 1975 is more credible, even though a devout JW will say that the WTS never claimed 1975 as the date for Armageddon.
I think that they use dates like that to scare people into thinking that the end is really close, but they don't commit to a date. If it happened in 70 years in John's time or 120 years in Noah's time, then we "have" to be close to the end, "if" the Gentile Times ended in 1914.
Not that it's any better or acceptable. They still use dates and numbers and predictions to scare people. Now, instead of naming a date, they keep it elusive....it can happen anytime. In some ways, that's more scary than having a date set several years out. They got busted for date predicting, so now they can claim to not predict dates, and it's worked in their favor. Now they can try to scare people that it's "imminent".
