The folly of Watchtower's theodicy. Or, why would an all-powerful and all-wise God need to justify his sovereignty through suffering?

by Island Man 23 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • sir82
    sir82

    Good points.

    On your point 1, note that under Fred Franz's chronology, the entire universe was only 49,000 years old, not 13 billion. So that objection wouldn't have been an issue years ago.

    Ol' Fred's thinking was nutso bonkers, but at least it had internal consistency.

    The current crop of numnuts don't have a brain between the lot of them, so they didn't realize that they destroyed that internal consistency when they (a) changed the "creative days" from "creation of the universe" to "preparing the earth for human life" and (b) changed them from exactly 7000 years long each to "many thousands or millions of years".

  • stuckinarut2
    stuckinarut2

    Thanks for reviving this thread!

    Fantastic points.

    The reasoning is great!

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    sir82 - "...they didn't realize that they destroyed that internal consistency ..."

    In the long run, it doesn't matter to them, so long as you just shut up and do what you're told. :smirk:

  • sir82
    sir82

    In the long run, it doesn't matter to them, so long as you just shut up and do what you're told.

    I am more and more convinced of just that - they just simply don't care what they teach any more, besides "obey us or die".

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