by James Mixon 20 Replies latest watchtower bible
"The creative Day" How long was each day? Defend
Maybe this was posted before but I found this site.
Search the above site. The logic of these people is way out in left field. They are NUTS.
Maybe some one can post it for a discussion and rip their logic apart.
JWs have never officially rescinded their view that each creative day was exactly 7000 years long.
My very first post on this board was about how the 7000-year-long creative day was still being taught as "present truth" to Gilead students as recently as 2005.
When I begain to wake up I spent months trying to get pass the opening book
of the Bible, the "Creative Days".
sir82 - "JWs have never officially rescinded their view that each creative day was exactly 7000 years long."
No, they haven't.
That being said, they'd look like complete idiots if they tried to push that concept on the present membership.
Even hard-core loyalists, I suspect.
There's a good write-up on the subject here: http://jwsurvey.org/general-information/the-friday-column-dinosaurs-chronology-lunch-and-evidence
The WTS has gone from the early Russell doctrine of all creation happening in less than 50,000 years to a doctrine similar (7 thousand year days instead of literal 24 hour days) to what some call 'gap creationism'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_creationism
The newer teaching is that the universe and earth were created billions/millions years ago, but only recently did Jehovah start the creation process on the earth, as far as plants, humans, etc. Complete BS, but this way they attempt to claim that the Bible and science agree (if you're trying to convince a 4 year old)
James Mixon -How do they get around this "So the evening and the morning were the 1st day and etc".
They used to teach that the "evening" referred to the beginning of the creative process when things would be unclear to outside observers such as the angels. "Morning" referred to the end of the process when it would become clear what God had created. They claimed the process of each "day" was 7,000 years. Of course this is merely supposition considering there are no eyewitnesses around from that time period to declare otherwise.
You guys sure this is still being taught? I recall the creative days now being allegorical (duh), and refferencing a period of time that cannot be known.
I really don't think they still teach creative days are 1K or 7K from Genesis.
