"Alice why don't you go and crawl back under whatever hospital bed you escaped from, and quit trying to hijack every thread that's posted.
Back on topic:
Yet, now it's not just the generation of 1914, it's an overlapping generation. It has to be explained in detail, with reference back to the Old Testament and the "historical" examples of Joseph and his brothers, just how generations can overlap and yet we're still in the time of the end. And then they go to the trouble of comparing birth years of members of the GB, which on the surface should smack everyone in the head how wrong the previous explanation was, but instead it somehow reinforces that because one old fart was still alive when a younger old fart was born, then we're still in the time of the end?
As we've discussed many times on this board, the GB will not get rid of 1914 because then they'd have to get rid of 1918 when Jesus supposedly 'inspected them', chosed them as the F&DSC which of course gives them their power structure. 1914 on it's own would be fairly easy to change. They could simply admit that Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 BCE which means Jesus returned in 1934, not 1914. They could easily tie this into the fact that Hitler was elected as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 which put the world on the pathway to WWII. Witnesses would buy this 'new light' like they do most of their bullshit doctrines. However, there is nothing scripturally that they can hinge on to to promote the idea that Jesus chose them in 1937 or '38.
Instead of admitting that they've been wrong for decades about the generation of 1914, they have tried numerous ways to try and wiggle out of it, while retaining their authority. Time is no longer on their side though and in 4 years, it will be 100 years since they declared "the world has ended". I'm sure they tried a thousand different scenarios in the Boardroom to see what they could come up with. The fact that an 'overlapping generation' was the best they could do shows that they're running out of excuses fast and are waiting to see how this 'new light' is accepted by a very weary people."
After communicating with different people, the biggest obstacle to most of the proof/ evidence (science based) atheists or agnostics in other religions is they haven't observed or experienced any intervention from God in society or in their personal life so they're left with a lot of unanswered questions.
I've lost much of God's spirit now, but I clearly remember it in my own life, that God had a powerful method of revealing his existence to faithful men of old as well as his modern day human subjects.
On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
Do not be anxious over anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving let your petitions be made known to God; and the peace of God that excels all thought will guard your hearts and your mental powers by means of Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7
Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld. For by means of this the men of old times had witness borne to them. Hebrews 11:1-2
However, we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the power beyond what is normal may be God’s and not that out of ourselves. 2 Corinthians 4:7
Without this there's no true evidence that God exists. It's not all just black and white text, or a coming apocalypse that's a motivator or a strengthening agent for a person's faith. You have no memory of this when you were one of Jehovah's Witnesses?
