What? Am I missing something?(Regarding the Roman army)
The WT teaches that during the Great Jewish revolt that the Roman army under the command of Gestus Gallus sieged the city of Jerusalem in 66 C.E. and then suddenly left and no one knows why and, true to Jesus prophecy, that allowed the jkews to escape before the Roman army suddenly returned for no known reason in 70 C.E.. Truth is the Jewish rebels beat the first army and they retreated and four years later the Romans had a new army and were back to finish the job. I asked how the WT could misteach this for years when i found it in about 5 seconds looking at Wikipedia. I even showed them on my blackberry. I said it had to be either ignorance from poor research and they should be embarassed that I found it in less than 10 minutes of research, that it was disingenuous (they just didn't beleive the research) or dishonest.
They also said secular research was inspired from the devil and I asked about how they can then use that same secular research in support of their articles and how the occult pyramidology Russell used to get his dates could possibly be valid as well....\
What I don't get is all of this "no one understands any of this, just stay close to the Org." No one understands their dating system? Don't they realize how important 1914 is to their entire story? Seems really sad if the more senior elders have no idea what they're wrapping their whole lives around.
They do, but they were backed into a corner and had to say something. I truly think they don't get it and realize most don't, but they have faith that others do.