(NOTE: please, read this post, because I put much effort in simply writing of it, since English is not my native language. Please, forgive me for my bad-english)
Hello! I am an active JW and serving as an MS in my congregation. But I have some doubts about my beliefs. I want to hear some serious comments about this matter.
According to WT doctrine, 6000 yrs from Adam’s creation has passed in 1975. OK, all of us know that! This was very popular issue among JWs in 1960s and 1970s. I know that too. But I have to tell you this: even though almost all members of GB believed that the Millennium will start immediately after October 1975, some older brothers in my congregation didn’t believe it. I know them personally. They said it wasn’t so unimportant as it is today, but also it wasn’t so important as it seems today! Brother who was the only elder in my congregation at that time, simply rejected the diagram of “creative days”, and that was his decision. Other brothers accepted that, and he said that that’s their problem. Of course, they were all disappointed in 1975, but he wasn’t. He still serves as an elder in my congregation.
But there is another question which arouses in my mind: GB NEVER CHANGED OR REJECTED THE DOCTRINE OF “CREATIVE DAYS”. Last time they mentioned it was in w87 1/1 p. 30 Questions From Readers:
“A study of the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and of our location in the stream of time strongly indicate that each of the creative days (Genesis, chapter 1) is 7,000 years long. It is understood that Christ’s reign of a thousand years will bring to a close God’s 7,000-year ‘rest day,’ the last ‘day’ of the creative week. (Revelation 20:6; Genesis 2:2, 3) Based on this reasoning, the entire creative week would be 49,000 years long.”
I tried to discuss this matter with some brothers and sisters in various congregations, but I have to be careful with them, since they are afraid of questioning their beliefs. I really have to be very cautious with that. According to WT doctrine, “time between Adam’s creation and the beginning of the seventh day, the day of rest, need not have been a long time. It could have been a rather short one. The naming of the animals by Adam, and his discovery that there was no complement for himself, required no great length of time. The animals were in subjection to Adam; they were peaceful; they came under God’s leading; they were not needing to be chased down and caught. It took Noah only seven days to get the same kinds of animals, male and female, into the Ark. (Gen. 7:1-4) Eve’s creation was quickly accomplished, ‘while Adam was sleeping.’ (Gen. 2:21) So the lapse of time between Adam’s creation and the end of the sixth creative day, though unknown, was a comparatively short period of time. The pronouncement at the end of the sixth day, “God saw everything he had made and, look! it was verygood,” proves that the beginning of the great seventh day of the creative week did not wait until after Adam and Eve sinned and were expelled from the Garden of Eden.” (w68 8/15 p. 500 Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?)
The doctrine is not changed! IS NOT CHANGED! There is no any ray of “new light” on that doctrine. WT says that “the lapse of time between Adam’s creation and the end of the sixth creative day, was a comparatively short period of time”. I agree, since Peter says “one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8).
That “a comparatively short period of time” today (2009) is 34 years! (2009 – 1975 = 34) Have you noticed that? Adam was at least 34 years old when Eve was created! Can you imagine that? Bible says that “the man was calling the names of all the domestic animals and of the flying creatures of the heavens and of every wild beast of the field, but for man there was found no helper as a complement of him” (Genesis 2:20). WT also says that “the first man, with his perfect mind and powers of observation, saw that in the bird and animal realm, there were male and female and that between them they reproduced their kind. But with the man himself, it was not then so. If this observation inclined him to have the thought of enjoying a companion, he found no suitable mate among any of the animal realm, not even among the apes.” (w89 8/1 p. 17 par. 8 Grand Human Prospects in a Paradise of Pleasantness). Did Adam “with his perfect mind and powers of observation” realize that he is alone after 34 years.
The same WT continues: “Adam was not inclined to decide matters for himself and become impudent and ask God his Creator for a mate. It was fitting that the perfect man let the entire matter rest with God, for shortly afterward he found that God had drawn His own conclusions about the situation.” Again, did Creator wait 34 years to give him a mate? I can’t believe that! Every new year of this wicked system means that Adam “grows old” while he is waiting his “ish·shah” What do you think about that? I’d like to hear opinions of some active JWs, my fellow sisters and brothers!
P.S. I am not an apostate. I don’t want to “bring my fellowman to ruin” (Proverbs 11:9). I am just a JW who has some doubts. So, “continue showing mercy to some that have doubts” (Jude 22).
May Jehovah bless you!
