This Generation.

by objectivetruth 18 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  ablebodiedman

  Thoughts / Other Perspectives?

  Yes, the generation that Jesus Christ is talking about are all those people who live during the time that Jesus Christs promises are extended.

  The previous generation were not aware of the value that Jesus Christs crucifiction and resurrection had.

  This generation is aware of these promises!

  Eventually this generation will come to an end and those promises will be realized.

  A new generation will then start.

  This present generation is however, referred to by Jesus Christ as wicked.

  The extraordinary promises extended to this wicked generation are being treated with indifference and most often with contempt.

  The next generation will be something truly spectacular for those few who endured through the indifference and contempt of this wicked generation.

  abe
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  "generation", noun: No concrete, logical definition, but changes frequently as WT false prophecies fail and undeniable facts discrediting WT's claims present themselves.

  Although a noun, WT uses it as a verb, as in "overlapping":

  overlap, v. verb: To lie or extend over and cover part of. .

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  "to lie". How appropriate !
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  NewYork44M

  I wonder why discussions like this did not occur until after the generation of 1914 (that I was taught from an early age) all died.

  Retrospective new light is so lame. If this discussion would have occurred in the 1960s I would have been impressed.
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  DATA-DOG

  How about... no matter who it is, we are still left here to suffer and die from disease, war, crime, accidents, ect.. All with no intervention from any angels, and it's OUR responsibility to take care of ourselves and each other and try to survive this life until we die as Hebrews 9:27 states.

  So who cares what generation means? If it's fake, we are still here. If it's real and fulfilled, we are still here. If's it's real and no one knows when anything will happen, then GOD should have explained it better and we are still here.

  It only matters what YOU do.

  DD
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  Wasanelder Once

  I am sure before much longer "This Generation" will signify those who see the events of this October. We all know its The kingdom's anniversary and Jesus is sure to put on one celestial shindig! Don't hold your breath. I just dont know why people care about this subject, its like debating whether unicorns live in candy houses or on a cloud. Move on.
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  Witness My Fury

  let's just keep this simple ....

  Jesus believed in the flood, we now know there was no flood, ergo jesus was a flawed human like the rest of us, so whatever he did or did not mean by anything he is ever puported to have said or done becomes pointless.
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  its like debating whether unicorns live in candy houses or on a cloud

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  "clearly" they live in candy houses. Doesn't everyone know this?
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  OnTheWayOut

  I pretty much agree with Shirley that such a debate only legitimizes belief in the unicorns on clouds or in the generation having to mean something that will be fulfilled.

  Here's a real simple argument. When it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims and flys like a duck, it's a duck.

  If there were a Jesus who said the statement, he would have meant that generation alive right then when he said that- in the sense of meaning the people of adult age at the time he spoke. So he was indicating 40 or maybe a tad more years.

  The writing of the generation statement was actually several decades later than the time it was supposed to be fulfilled within. So it wasn't even prophetic. It was a writer trying to make "Jesus" into a prophet by stating that within the 40 or so years, Jerusalem would be destroyed. And since it was written after Jerusalem was destroyed, the writer knew it took place within that "generation" of when they place Jesus.

  No big mystery.

  BUT NO!!!!!

  You choose one of WT's (now) old light explanations because you are so sure that there must be a legitimate modern day fulfillment having greater meaning. Good luck with that.
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  designs

  Did Paul ever mention "this Generation".