humbled wrote This is understandable even without a diagram
that even a child can grasp it.
The Watchtowers volumes of books and
complicated chronology were a way to stay away from the
basic truth and message of the gospel
and to lure us into believeing we had
"special knowledge"
that Christianity was about figuring out
a complicated puzzle,
instead of what it is, as Jesus described it.
loving God with your whole heart and
your neighbor as yourself.
Neighbors as depicted in the parable
of the good Samaritan, are anyone who
is in need of our kindness.
Jesus was appalled at the attitude of
the very religious and legalistic who
"strained at the gnat and swallowed the camel "
Picking apart dates and sorting through minute details
of chronology have nothing to do with
Christianity or righteousness.