any body know?
Blondie; According to the January 1st, 1987 Watchtower on page 30, Jehovah's Witnesses maintain that each Creative Day was 7,000 years long, totalling 49,000 years. thank you, trust researcher.
The flaw with the wt calculation is, that on the cosmic scale the seventh day has barely started, not finished, so you have to divide or multiply by 6, not seven imho. It was not that long ago that evolution stopped and the snakes shut up for good.
any body know?
BB: How gracious of wt to allow scientists to do such research and the the straw man: longer than 24 hours. wt never taught that, they taught 7000 years, whereas it is theoretically ~120 000 times longer than their old teaching.
4.8 billion : 6 days. = .8 .--The 7th day will be 800 million years long. start overlapping now.
so why has the growth flatlined?
why is less time spent in the ministry?
why have aux pios droped by 1/3rd?.
any body know?
somehow the idea of 6 creative days of 6000=42 000 + 7000 of a rest, Sabbath day appealed to the numerology minded wt writers, it fitted with the OT Jubilee cycle of - 49 +1 year. Subdividing the the last 7 millennia further into an 6 work +1 day of rest and judgement by "jesus". This fitted the overall pattern, and the 1 day= 1000 year rule. It allowed too to re-inforce the idea that after the end of the 1000 year kingdom would follow another millenium "day" to complete the type of the 50 year jubilee cycle. since seven is a spiritually perfect number, it makes perfect sense. of course Satan the talking snake has to raise it's ugly head in the 50th day again, so, no peace for the wicked. time out.
P.S. wt: the creative process of the earth, including the "new creation" is EONS long.
if this has been discussed i missed it.
i think the january study watchtower is a concerted attempt to reduce the numbers claiming to be anointed.
but i love the sneaky way they go about it this time.
according to jw beliefs the anointed / 144000 are going to rule with jc for a thousand years .as kings rev:20;4 .
i think they , the anointed , would be more important in the scheme of things than an elder or a ministerial servant in any congregation.. yet for the most part , they have no say or any position in any of the congregations in the world , and certainly not if they are female , however heaven accepts female anointed ones.. yet here on earth ,along with there service , elders and ministerial servants , with the holy spirits blessing , are appointed to there position in the congregation.. apparently there is no such scrutiny , guidelines or procedures in place , no holy spirit , or performance of service to determine who is an anointed person , so that any tom dick or harry ,mary jane or joan can claim to be an anointed person and it is accepted by the watchtower organization .. .
can you imagine every male claiming to be an elder in a congregation if you use the same guideline/ leeway that is given to the anointed ?.
paragraph 12 recommends that we meditate on the weekly reading for the theocratic ministry school.
ok, i'm splitting hairs here.
but there will be no more tms in a week.. somebody isn't keeping up with jehovah's celestial chariot..
a different "oops" in par. 8, reflecting on marvels of creation, I looked at the opening picture, the sky scene, and thought, "is that not the Plow (UK) or Big Dipper (US) east of the moon? (the moon would be in the North West.), since the man is looking north? I have never seen this configuration. is this a sublime message: we are way off on all of this? because this picture is imho
boring has it's benefits.
if this has been discussed i missed it.
i think the january study watchtower is a concerted attempt to reduce the numbers claiming to be anointed.
but i love the sneaky way they go about it this time.
tale sin: none of it's genuine in the true sense of the word. you are absolutely correct, but I am just applying the given wt terms to show how wrong the whole house of cards is. seeing that it is based on the ramifications of the snake talking. BSW I meant a minority 71 999 partakers*, assuming there is a "pure" wt 144k. * there might be at least that many closet, private, uncounted partaker.
nicolaou:: that is why I stated that they will get that reprieve by the "reason of insanity" defense, after all, wt certified them.
if this has been discussed i missed it.
i think the january study watchtower is a concerted attempt to reduce the numbers claiming to be anointed.
but i love the sneaky way they go about it this time.
i was thinking about christmas and how celebrants may lose their home and all their possessions because a christmas candle burned down the house.. witnesses smugly would say, "well, they shouldn't have been celebrating the holidays!
".....yet if a jw got into a fatal car accident while going to a convention, it was clearly satan's doing..
