It's a way of kicking the can down the road another hundred years or so when the whole issue will be someone else's problem.
Anyone explain the generation idea!
by Witness 007 11 Replies latest watchtower bible
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HereIam60
In reading the scriptures I never got the idea that Jesus used the term 'generation' as any type of time marker. He seems to use it as a general reference to whatever group he was speaking to at the time. To faithful disciples - they were a generation that would not pass away until all his words were fufilled. To oppsers - they were a 'wicked and adulterous generation' that kept seeking a sign .. Both groups contemparary in that time.
When the 'generation overlap' idea was introduced (in print) I thought I understood it. I thought of people in attendance at a typical Kingdom Hall. There are older and younger ones. Obviously the younger were born during the lifetime of the older. In that sense their generations overlap. I took this to mean they were saying that some younger persons recieved annointing during the lifetime of those annointed prior to 1914.
When Splane's chart video was played at the meeting however it ceased to make any sense to me especially the use of Fred Franz as a typical example. Others at the hall acted as though everything was suddenly clear.
I guess I've been wary of "chart and pointer' explanations ever since years ago a brother went off his meds and in doing a 5 minute ministry school part took a whiteboard and easel on stage with him and drew 3 intersecting circles and rambled on incomprehensibly (not on trinity though) for so long that brothers had to gently interrupt him and help him from the stage..