by JH 14 Replies latest watchtower bible
To quote Paragraph 7, Page 27 of the Creation book, "It would seem reasonable that the 'days' of Genesis could likewise have embraced long periods of time- milleniums." The Society teaches "Old Earth Creationism," the idea that life may be billions of years old as scientists say, but that mankind has existed since the time of Adam 6,000 years ago.
Oddly enough, however, few Witnesses of my acqaintance understand or believe this, and hold that the six days were just that.
AlmostAtheist,
"God needed to create the dinosaurs to kinda hash out the whole land-creature thing."
Awesomely Funny. Truly. :) But I can do you one better...
In Greenville, SC is Bob Jones University, a very fundementalist Baptist school. One of the professors there does not believe in dinosaurs - no biblical evidence. He publicly stated that God created the earth with buried dinosaur fossils, but there were never really any dinosaurs.
It's no small wonder that Russell was able to spin up the bible students.
Justickledpink,
and something that a creation day was a thousand years long, not a 24 hour period.
I remember the same. I asked my ex how did the plants survive for one thousand years without sunlight. Wait. How was there liquid water with no sun for four thousand years? You know the answer. Jehovah can do everything.
Oh, well...
Let her dream. Religion is the opium of the masses.
How old do the Witnesses say the earth is?
The answer changes - the light keeps getting brighter (the luminesence being directly proportional to the fuel for embarrasment)
In Greenville, SC is Bob Jones University, a very fundementalist Baptist school. One of the professors there does not believe in dinosaurs - no biblical evidence. He publicly stated that God created the earth with buried dinosaur fossils, but there were never really any dinosaurs.
The best witness solution to this problem I heard was that Satan went back in time and put the fossils in the ground to decieve us in modern times.
I remember being taught that a creative day was 7000 years, then again I grew up with the 1975 generation. I guess this is another case of the WTS papering over the cracks and changing thier minds in their usual, say nothing for a while, hint at new light, bring up the dimmer swich on the new light slowly so no one notices.
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