I certainly am NOT a scholar.....nor do I feel I should have to be to understand 'truth'.
Yet, apparently, the Society would have me believe that we are living in the 'last days' since 1914, supported by a 2-fold 'evidence' package. One is claimed to be 'Bible chronology' and the other being the 'composite' sign apparently given by Jesus to keep us awake to his 'presence'. And so here I am being told this is God's organization, which is entirely based upon a 'foundation' of the above beliefs having to be true since the organization was also 'examined' a few years after 1914, some sifting done, and then 'approval' as God's One True Channel was bestowed upon the bros of early last century.
This complex, detailed, not easily supported Scripturally or Historically, 'foundation', is supposed to be SO sure, and EVIDENCE that its the simple 'truth'? I did indeed read Carl Jonsson's Gentile Times Reconsidered book and found it had the ring of 'truth' more than anything the Watchtower Society has ever written about the subject. Forget this Furuli for a minute - Why the Hell has the SOCIETY not come back with a reasoned, scholarly, truthful reply to Jonsson's argumentation which is now almost 30 yrs old??? Why did they treat him the way they did at the time, including essentially 'shelving' his information instead of discussing it at length and with research and prayer?
Better yet, why does the Society virtually NEVER answer its critics in a scholarly, reasoning and public forum??? Hmmmmm seems to be a picture forming here.....something about cultlike organizations...
Appendix 14 of the 'Kingdom Come' book is a shameful example of jounalistic and intellectual dishonesty imo! There is testimony that the driving force behind supporting the claimed 607 date was to discredit the means used to arrive at the 587/586 date! Shame! and a pitiful testimony indeed of the so-call 'truth' to support its 1914/607 cornerstone doctrine, without belief in, or support of, the whole card house comes crashing down imo. (has already many years ago)
I suspect you will never address any of the facts that Jonsson refers too since that is not the way of jw apologists. I've never seen them do so anyway. What I have seen them do is be all of what the Society claims 'apostates' do, namely , resort to deceptions, half-truths, and outright falsehoods -shame! They'll do the usual 'bait and switch', 'red herrings', 'circular reasoning', and other tactics to avoid directly confronting the issues.
Starting on Page 308 of Jonsson's book regarding Gentile Times, there is a very good section commenting on this Furuli, hmmmmmm, wonder if Furuli would care to simply refute Jonsson's assertions about his evident lacklustre performance in even addressing this subject from the very get-go?
boa.....who in the end is just another Parrot.....
