They can't even prove their affiliation with the UN was just for a library pass. The only way they prove of Jesus' invisible return is by their failed prophecies that prove otherwise. They are apostates and liars.
Jesus invisible return
by gringojj 13 Replies latest watchtower bible
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A Paduan
"For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them"
For jws, add to the text, "this will occur in about 2000 years as the wtbts will teach"
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VM44
This is a very good question. Where indeed does the Bible say Jesus Christ's return would be invisible?
I believe the idea of an Christ's invisible return was invented by one of the offshoots of the Millerite Adventist groups in the mid 1800s. When Jesus did not return according to their calculations, they came up with idea that he DID return, but it is INVISIBLE! The Watchtower, which really is an adventist group, if not in name, certainly in the doctrine it teaches, took the same reasoning and applied it to the years 1877 and 1914.
This resoning is not from the Bible, despite the claims of the Watchtower. And really is silly. Read what Carl Sagan wrote about the claim that the return was invisible:
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"Doctrines that make no predictions are less compelling than those which make correct predictions; they are in turn more successful than doctrines that make false predictions. But not always. One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and -- while the events of that year were certainly of some importance -- the world does not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended.
There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, "Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014'. A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvenienced in any way." But they did not. They could have said, "Well, the world *would* have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God and He spared the Earth." Instead, they did something much more ingenious. They announced that the world *had* in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout.
It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration were needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.
? quote from "Broca's Brain" by Carl Sagan, p. 332, twelfth edition
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doofdaddy
Jesus who?