in a recent post about the watchtower’s claim that all animals were created as vegetarians, one commenter said that watchtower could no longer sustain this belief so they simply stopped talking about it.
i began thinking about other wacky doctrines and statements by the borg that have faded away.
i’ll offer two of them below, but the complete list must be longer than your arm.. 7000 year-long creative days: watchtower once taught that each of the creative days was 7,000 years in duration, hence the hype leading up to 1975. they believed that year marked 6,000 years since adam’s creation, and oh how nicely the 1,000-year reign would fit as the last piece of the puzzle, thus completing the final “day”.
One thing that stands out with the JWs is their belief that Jesus was hung on a stake, not a cross. Their reasoning for this, of course, is that the cross is a pagan symbol. For one thing, it is not. Pagans adopt from the one true spirit and source of all truth.
But let me get to the point here. I can prove the cross very easily with just twp passages from the bible.
in 1957 society said real mother of christians is not an earthly organization, yet - later said gal 4:26 shows it is heavenly jerusalem but three times in revelation hj comes to earth to reside with mankind.. it is also called jerusalem above.. in isa 54:5,6 we are told ""thy maker is thy husband- he has called you as wife" (speaking of earthly jerusalem) and we are told in many scriptures that god will never forsake his wife - yet the society says it is all spiritual now.
that jerusalem has been cast off.....then 1919, the new agenda for the society is that jehovahs wife?
brought forth more children, making a new nation (anointed) who was delivered from babylon.
The 144000 are all JEWS from the 12 tribes of Israel. Its not some metaphorical thing its literal. These are Jews, the firstfruits of the Tribulation believers, who will witness to the world during the 7 year Tribulation (Dan 9:25)
