Gods rests in the 7th part of the 7th day?

by Hellrider 2 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Hellrider
    Hellrider

    The wirdest thing about JW-doctrine is the calculations and the numbers:

    Genesis: 2:1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them. 2:2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. 2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

    And according to the Bible, one day is to God like a thousand years. This is of course to be understood symbolically, that to God, time is not the same way as it is to man, but anyway, JWs interpret this literally. To them, one day is a thousand years. What I don`t understand, is why do they then calculate it to be 7 x 7 ? I mean, they believe that one creating-day is supposed to have been 7000 years, don`t they? So God separated the light from the darkness on the first day. If one day is to god like a thousand years, why do they then think it`s 7000? What scriptural basis have they for this claim? And further: If they believe this, and that we are now approaching the last thousand year of the 7000-years that is the last day,and that there has been 48 000 years since creation began, then that would mean that we are approaching the 7th part of the 7th day? And also: WHERE does the bible say, or even indicate, that God would END the world (Armageddonize it, lol, like they speculated in 1975) on the 7th part of the 7th day of creation? Where is their Biblical basis for this?

  • eisenstein
    eisenstein

    When you put it as clear as you have, it does sound ignorant, doesn't it.

    I don't like that so much of the WT issues are speculative and surrounding dates...

    It's not what is important today...

    anyway, your analysis is on the dot, funny when you think about it

    LMAO

    eisenstein

  • peacefulpete
    peacefulpete

    First let it be said that they don't presently hold to the chronology you described. They quietly moved away from it after the 1975 fiasco. Secondly the whole premise is/was as you said, baseless. The attraction of round numbers is just too much to resist it seems. First the assumption that the Bible has hidden messages and ciphering. Next the presumption that as blessed and specially gifted readers of the Bible we alone can figure it out. Because the Wt 'researchers' discovered that it was possible to date 1975 as the 6000 year marker since creation ended (by unique interpretation of contradictory time references) . Add 1000 for the millenium and viola, the 7th day is 7,000 years long. Naturally since the 7th is 7,000 years long the other 6 must have been likewise. The WT is hardly alone in this type of secret chronology foolishness of course, but it is one of the few that continued in this into the 20th century.

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