607 BCE Explained....

by God_Delusion 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  God_Delusion

  Howdy,

  I am researching material into the 607 BCE debate (what debate?) for a series of articles I want to run off in the new year on my JWB blog, and as usual, JWN has proven so valuable. Thing is, I need to try and explain 607 BCE to a layman. You see, disproving it is ever so simple, but what why is it important to disprove it? What significance does that date have on the Jehovah's Witness faith?

  Can any of you try to explain what the Watchtower doctrine on 607 BCE is within a couple of paragraphs (including 1914,1919, Daniel's prophecy, etc.)? If you can, it would be such a big help to me.

  Love,

  Carlos x
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  cantleave

  God Delusion Jwfacts.com has the answers you are looking for..

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/607-1914.php
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  God_Delusion

  Yes, I know that. I asked if it were possible to explain it in a few paragraphs, not an essay.

  Carlos x
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  God_Delusion

  Also, I am not entirely sure where they get the 1919 date from.
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  cantleave

  It's when rutherford and the gang were released from prison. They were then refined and ready to lead god's people. They did this with a convention and .......it's all bollox as you know.
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  OnTheWayOut

  Cantleave provided an excellent resource. Also consult their "Reasoning" book or the appendix of the "What Does the Bible Really Teach" book or some other sources in the WT Library. If you want to blog/write about it, you will have to do your best to condense it the way you would write it. I personally don't think a couple of paragraphs will make sense of it to a laymen.

  1919-I believe they are using the 3.5 years of Revelation to say that 3.5 years after October of 1914 (Everything in this mythical religion seems to take place in October or 6 months out from October in April/March) Jesus started inspecting the organization. His inspection must have been completed in 1919 because things started going favorably for the organization after some setbacks. I believe that's when the chairmen of the board were released from jail.

  I could be wrong. I don't delve into JW literature anymore, and I just go by memory. If memory serves me even close to correct, they promised the destruction of "Babylon the Great" by sometime in 1918 shortly after Russell's death (to hang onto their Doomsday Cult mentality) and reinvented what it meant years later as the "release from Babylon the Great."