bible says flood occurred approximately 4000 years ago.
that is about *200 generations of breeding to get to the population on earth now.
keep in mind that the population increase is geometric.
without doing any googling, I suspect it would be theoretically possible. just in my lifetime it has quadruplet, increased by 6 billions. But put in context, would within a century the construction of the massive pyramids been possible? and
animals from an even smaller single pair, single location start? Sloth reaching South America?
If by Geo- metric you mean to take the "measure of the the Earth" and mostly water.
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
Being false or not, the question is what will the watchtower do
sloppy joe, what wt does might depend on whether the doctrines, prophecies are proven true or not.
about the 1914 generation, they might want to get rid of the "anointing",or the "never dying" not mentioned in the text, or the extended overlap,thus killing 2 stones with one bird.
don't complain if you get kicked out of bethel after 23 years (it's really a blessing to be assigned back to the field) and don't complain if they sell your kingdom hall even if you have just invested your time and energy renovating it.. so encouraging?.
to stay calm
Joseph Goebbels 1945: " Ruhe ist die erste Buergerpflicht" --- nicht.
A latter day replay of nazi propaganda : "Quiet obedience is the first duty of all citizens.
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
The recent popularizing of the 1919 Faithful & Discreet wt Slave shows me, that for now, they want to keep that era in focus. , regardless of the fact that there prediction, doctrines of those times were absolutely wrong.
i thought a short commentary on the "nethinim" (nathinim, nethunim) would be fun.
the word (given (ones) is used in verbal form in reference to the levites until the post exilic stories whereupon it takes on a new usage as a name of a specific non-israelite people serving in the temple.
it is much complicated by the various descriptions from p,d,j but it is clear we have some conflict of opinions about the history and role of this group.. in josh 9 we have an apparent late attempt to identify nethinim with the gibeonites.
simply put, all jws should be considered members of the 12 tribes of Israel [of God]. Out of these "spiritual tribes" (like of Joseph) are sealed the 144 000, including the Governing Body aka F&DS.
Christians are not astranged, or foreigners. they are citizens. Old wt doctrine: the 12 tribes are the earthly class.
Leave the name calling to the name callers.
Not endorsing, just pointing out.
the bible records miracles such as resurrections, angels, prophecy and destructive acts of god to mention a few.
are these all a pack of lies?
how do you explain them?
Where's the proof without using the Bible to prove the Bible?
There is no secular proof of the major miracles mentioned in the O.P.
there is no evidence that the human population was reduced to only 8 souls a mere ~ 4000 years ago in the barge full of vegetarians floating above mt. Everest. It is pure bunk, to put it charitably.
science fiction at its worst.
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
The generation that does not pass away
from reddit by sloppyjoe2
wt prophecy like that would be a false prophecy , because in Math.24 there is no such generation that does not pass away. They all pass away. The generation talked about will pass away after all these things have occurred. These things (listed prior to Math: 24:34) includes a disaster bigger than the flood in noah's day (from the world's beginning).
Even current wt doctrine about the anointed generation is false, because the wt generation does not pass away after, (as Jesus said), but before the full Great Tribulation i.e. Armageddon.
Armageddon, the tribulation greater than the Flood, which clearly happened after the worlds beginning, is the biggy, not just a mere "sign". It is a signing out of 99% of all beings. .
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
Explain what JW leadership could have done to avoid persecution of the brethren without breaking God’s laws?
organize a hidden exodus of the affected males, assign them to missionary work, a kind of gentile "kindertransport" , "climb every mountain" not to smuggle prints but to save lives.
scripturally : "if they persecute you in one city, go to another"
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
TD great summary, so,
what prevents future members of the great crowd, slated to be in the courtyard of the temple, from also being in overlapping groups, if the the anointed remnant, future king priests destined for the most holy , are said to be in that questionable configuration now? wt could say:
The anointed (peter paul and mary) are assembling in heaven since 1918, prospective "0ther Sheep" potentially since 1935. --- no 1914 there!.
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.
instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .
they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
TD.
corrections: "Behold the great crowd" announced 1935, that makes even a baby in mothers arms today 88 years old. even then its wrong. Wt of 4/15 1995 question from readers states that the great crowd does not exist prior to the great tribulation. Nobody can shout "salvation we owe--" until after the end. . "coming out of" is not synonymous to "survive"
Jehovah did not allow the ingathering of this group to begin too soon.
wt announced starting in 1918 that "millions now living will never die" , in other words will become members of that great crowd, now 105 year old, but baptized wtorg members.
Fast forward the clock 40 years and it is clear that an adjustment is on the horizon.
easy, overlapping groups of prospective great crowd members, wt chart coming up 2075 again.
