if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.
estephan.
‘scholar’:
The said scholar has nicely termed the three most significant prophetic dates in the Bible: 1914, 1918, and 1919 as an eschatological triennium. These dates are well established
So… not 1799, 1874 and 1878 😂 Or whatever future dates are selected that are just as ‘established’ 🤦♂️
if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.
estephan.
🤦♂️
do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?
inquiring minds want to know .
estephan.
Kosenen:
The WT misses the truth that the prophesied 1260 days/42 months/time, times and half a time must occur first. And the two prophets of Revelation 11 have to appear first and accomplish their mission during 3 and half years.
All of these periods, all equal to 3.5 years, were the period from the Jewish revolt in 66CE until Jerusalem’s destruction in 70CE. Christians expected various supernatural things to happen after that, within a generation of Jesus’ death. They were wrong, and nutters have been making up alternative interpretations ever since.
if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.
estephan.
Godlyman:
which I will build upon in my future posts
Or don’t.
if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.
estephan.
Godlyman:
So, are we all in agreement that the WTS is "not" the faithful and discreet slave as they claim to be? If so, then who really is?
False dichotomy.
As far as the purpose of the parable, the ‘slave’ (setting aside the endorsement of slavey) referred to each individual Christian awaiting Jesus’ return (expected within a generation of his death). Their expectations were wrong and everyone relevant to the original purpose of the parable is long dead.
do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?
inquiring minds want to know .
estephan.
🤦♂️
do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?
inquiring minds want to know .
estephan.
Fisherman:
For example, a couple of years ago a new method of interpreting prophecy was explained
No, it wasn’t a ‘new method of Bible study’ as if they made some brilliant discovery. They just reduced their reliance on the practice introduced by Rutherford (borrowed from other Protestant groups) of ‘types and antitypes’.
JW are not pretending or putting on a show, they are convinced.
Whether they’re convinced or not, they’re still wrong.
if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.
estephan.
You wouldn’t need to. They have the burden of proof. There is no evidence that the ‘faithful slave’ story is anything but a parable.
do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?
inquiring minds want to know .
estephan.
🤦♂️
do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?
inquiring minds want to know .
estephan.
Kosenen:
How else would the scripture speak about captains and sailors looking at its destruction from a distance?
🙄 Compare Matthew 4:8.
Descriptions in Revelation are explicitly metaphorical but you insist a literal interpretation. But when a story in Matthew is presented as literal, it is freely accepted as metaphor (or a ‘vision’). 🤦♂️ Unless you’re a flat earther as well. 😂
