144,000 v. Great Crowd Verses
by Ding 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Ding
It's either incredibly daring or stupid (or both) to base a major teaching about the afterlife on a heavily symbolic book of the Bible.
And, of course, the WT equates the 144,000 with Jesus' words "little flock" in Luke 12:32 as if the two had to be synonymous. JWs never question the connection. Of course, JWs don't question anything the GB says.
I wonder if Russell originally thought there would only be about 144,000 "Bible Students," all of whom would go to heaven, and then the WT had to come up with "new light" when they clearly exceeded that number.
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Steel
Has it ever occurrd to anyone the JW use the book of revelations too basically void the entire new testament.
It's only for heavenly hopers who are solel represented by the faithful slave.
Building an entire dogma around the book of revelations is something no serious student if the scriptures can take serious