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 .
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 .
all these endless posts now are about how wt entered into the 1914 morass, the Opening Post was about how how wt will wriggle out of the now expired 1914 end times trap.
wt entered through a false prophecy: "the world will end we will go to heaven". 1914 happened, wt 's predictions did not materialize.
The 1914 teaching will not end, it is a permanent stain on the wt prediction record.
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.
scientific evidence appears to challenge the Bible record
right:
~ 10 000 meter of water falling in 40 days, at 10 meters an hour, everywhere. disappearing afterward.
A wooden vessel made with antique tools and methods half the size of the titanic, and not breaking.***
Slow animals, specific feeders, like sloths, pandas , koalas returning to their distant habitat quickly.
Lying vegetarians, lions, hyenas, pythons surviving in the vessel with only 2 rabbits, horses, elephants on the boarding list, and the former
upon exit quickly evolving into carnivores.
"appears to" "challenge" is wt deception speak.
*** it was a miracle wood, grew like balsa, turned into ash's toughness after assembly, and became alive and grew together, healed water tight into one tree. food? "miracle wheat"
a friend of mine was compelled to reach out to as many members as possible in her congregation, by sending them the following letter that i would like to share.. to my brothers and sisters,.
i’m sure you’ve realised by now that something isn’t quite right with me as i haven’t been around in months.
the truth is i have been going through a crisis and the last few months have been the hardest time of my life.
"The real question we should ask is found in John 6 ---" Konagirl,
to add:
How do we, or watchtower followers hope to get everlasting life without partaking of the symbolic body of Christ, i.e. The bread and wine?
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.
Fisherman, thanks for telling us that jw, watchtower beliefs are wishful thinking. . that is scary, the deity is telling us, help is coming as surely as the fairytales are true, really happened as told.
the theme of the in person convention this year is "exercise patience".
looking at the convention map, they are really using their assembly halls and they are using smaller civic centers or city arena.
no more huge stadiums.. are they not expecting a great crowd?
credit wiki images pro bono, free spreading droppings of already always old light, patiently.
(1 corinthians 9:18) "that when i declare the good news, i may offer the good news without cost,....".
yup, a joke - which is anything but funny..
well, Paul was making tents to finance his campaigns, wt buy, sells real estate and builds with free slave labour and sells to.
i grew up in a magnificent, 3-story, greek revival house on the once very rural staten island ny.
the house was originally part of a huge compound, cannery, farm, and wbbr radio station owned by the watchtower society.
my late grandparents purchased 1065 woodrow rd in 1957 and that is where i spent the next 12 years of my life.
that is an amazing old timer network on this site! bravo to the brave non new worlders.
few years ago i did a thread that i hope has helped some folks.
maybe it is time to 'recycle' it.. did the writer of rev 11:18 (ruin those who ruin the earth) somehow anticipate the modern environmental situation, or did he intend something more in keeping with the bible's general concerns of morality and sin?.
secondly, how does the context help to interpret it?.
As a witness to the effect of the jewish people's holocaust, of the of area bombings, wholesale rapes, ethnic cleansing, the ongoing aim to deliberately destroy whole clans, tribes, nations, MAD ly, agent orange, The narrow greek word definitions notwithstanding, I would think the intent, the ultimate application of Rev 11:18 to apply to total warfare, the deliberate destruction of life and means of life.
In nature all activities seem to improve the planet. debris from decaying life makes the best soil and oil. We can with ingenuity and willpower do the same with all our activities.
i do wonder about the universe as we know it .
it does boggle my mind ,and how such a variety of life does exist on this planet ,from the microscopic to the most advanced life forms.. in such an abundance .?.
and then looking out there in the universe the multitudes of stars like our sun and planets exist that we have no knowledge of boggles my mind .. so ,maybe i am spiritual in some sense..
put more meaning into our present life. It is a sure bet, even if there is no afterlife. but Reason has it, that if there is an after death reward, why should it not be given to those that did a master job on the first run? A current life concurrent what you perceive to be the purpose of existence of the universe?
