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 .
Anybody remember the missing Zero Year anecdote about 1914? the fate of that wt doctrine will not be decided over quibbling about the past.
Wt predicted the end of the world for that date. and the rapture of the wt leaders. It is a false prophecy. They did not predict what actually happened.
Their exit from the 1914 generation, false at it is, will be another falsehood. 2 negatives will give an overall plus.
i thought it was in 1914. silly me!.
w78 3/1 p. 18 par.
15 - when was god’s son made a king-priest like melchizedek?
He had a kingdom of his love. Col.1:13, christians are in it since that time.
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 .
how will wt end the 1914 mess?
the way they started it, by false prophecies.
(1kings 20) an unnamed prophet walks up to a man and tells him to punch him, the guy refuses to and is killed by a lion.
he goes up to another guy and tells him to punch him, this guy does.
why does the prophet want to be punched?
you cant trust the prophets . even today. the deity might want to fool you. punish you for being credulous.
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.
mitigating factors
Strangely, early males in the bible stories seem to have a slowly developing interest in sex. Adam procrastinating until he could have only imperfect children, others later only having firstborns at the ripe age of 120.
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.
