Creative Day More New Light

by littlemike 9 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  littlemike

  
  When I was brought up in the 60s and 70s a creative day was definately 7000 years as mentioned on another thread and then it became vague as thousands of years like mentioned in an earlier thread.

  Well the bright light really is getting brighter all the time. Whereas they used to know exactly how long a creative day was they now have not got a clue

  NEW AWAKE SEPTEMBER 2006

  PAGE 19 "How long then were the creative days? The wording of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 indicates that considerable lengths of time were involved."

  Well thats makes it much clearer then could be millions of years like scientists have always said!!!!
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  garybuss

  
  Reasoning From The Scriptures 1989 p. 88 Creation
  "Was all physical creation accomplished in just six days sometime within the past 6,000 to 10,000 years?
  The facts disagree with such a conclusion: (1) Light from the Andromeda nebula can be seen on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. It takes about 2,000,000 years for that light to reach the earth, indicating that the universe must be at least millions of years old. (2) End products of radioactive decay in rocks in the earth testify that some rock formations have been undisturbed for billions of years."
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  "Consider the relationship between Jehovah and Jesus. They were together in heaven for perhaps billions of years."
  The Watchtower, August 15, 2005 Page 27, Paragraph 15
  
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  Mysterious

  The truth is they have no freaking idea but as usual they will be happy to invent one and shakily back it up by hopscotching scripture.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  Well the bright light really is getting brighter all the time. Whereas they used to know exactly how long a creative day was they now have not got a clue

  One could surmise that they never really knew in the first place, don't you think?
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  Arthur

  It never ceases to amaze me how the WTS can continue to arbitrarily pick and choose what they will interpret as literal, and what they will interpret as figurative. Some "days" are interpreted as literal days. Some are interpreted as a year. Some are interpreted as simply long periods of time.

  This is very convenient. With a simple stroke of the pen, they can say that certain passages say what they mean, and others mean something other than what they say. To the Watchtower Society, the Bible can be turned into one big Rorschach card to be interpreted however they see fit.

  Why bother even puting the doctrines and "current understanding" in print? Just report the doctrines and "current understanding" on a giant electronic board that can be changed the same way stock prices are reported on Wall Street.
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  garybuss

  The other problem with allowing rational reasoning to work in the William Miller founded numerology based religion groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses is it all folds up like a two dollar suitcase in the rain. Once they apply carbon dating to a rock, they have to apply it to other artifacts, and carbon dating those other artifacts eliminate the possibility that anything based on the young earth and Bible based earth age calculations has merit.
  If the young earth calculations don't have merit, none of the Witness's end time calculations have merit either. If the Witnesses hang on to their required belief that humans have only been on earth 6,000 years they look stupid. If they discard that belief they admit to being stupid. Either way they're incredible.
  They'd like to take one line from the creation story and make it literal and another line and make it abstract. That's fine until they have to deal with anybody with more than a third grade education. They're left with no choice than to re-write the creation story. That's what they have done.
  
  
  
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  fullofdoubtnow

  Why bother even puting the doctrines and "current understanding" in print? Just report the doctrines and "current understanding" on a giant electronic board that can be changed the same way stock prices are reported on Wall Street.

  Don't give them ideas Arthur.

  I can almost see them doing that at next years dc's.
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  Narkissos

  This is not exactly new.

  Even when they explicitly ascribed a 7,000 year duration to the so-called "creative days," they kept the creation of "heaven and earth" in Genesis 1:1 out of the comput, thus avoiding the clash with astronomical and geological data (this, of course, implied explaining away the "making" of the luminaries on day 4 as merely "making them visible from Earth"). In the early 80s they repeatedly highlighted this interpretation to separate themselves from (other) "fundamentalists" or "creationists".

  E.g. Watchtower 11/1, 1970:

  It should be noted that these seven great creative "days" do not include the creation of the universe, but only the preparation of earth for man. The Bible does not say when the sun, stars, planets, even the earth, were created. Genesis 1:1 states: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." But it does not say when that "beginning" was, or how much time passed between the creation of the universe and the beginning of the first of the seven "days," mentioned in the next verses.
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  jwfacts

  Pick and choose it right. The creative days may no longer be 7000 years, but Gods day of rest still is. That way they can say the end is about to happen because 6000 years are up.
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  peacefulpete

  PAGE 19 "How long then were the creative days? The wording of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 indicates that considerable lengths of time were involved."

  It does? It says day with an evening and morning when I read it. Its rather funny to suggest the wording of Genesis indicates long periods of time for each creative day.