,djeggnog, thank you for that response, you are taking the issues raised seriously enough to tackle them. It will take me time to work through them item by item.
re: Your Pluto classification analogy to wt teachings.-good- a subject close to my heart, and in which I was personally involved in a radio debate. The solar system is a non-biblical message from the creator, I believe, It has been stable for ~ 4 billion years, stable enough to allow life to start and continue to develop. that means Pluto likely was in its' present orbit for a long time. That orbit is a planetary orbit, conforming to the modified* Bode sequence, Pluto being ~twice as far from Uranus as Uranus is from Saturn, Saturn being ~ twice as far Jupiter as Jupiter is from the asteroids mean, .... so, to my mind, all the quibbling about size, grandstanding, is irrelevant, Pluto is in a legitimate planetary orbit tied to the Earth=10 ratios.
Similarly, the bible data define the entities wt is playing around with, and the various changing in their nomenclature, redefining the terms like "generation", changing types, antitypes, does not effect what the bible contains on these subjects.
I started a thread on The wt being wrong from A-Z on the anointed generation. somebody added that the bible is wrong from end to beginning too. to repeat, including some answers to your reply above:
Jesus stipulated that the generation would see all these things (Math 24-25) before it passes away.
Wt writers, however, who, as you correctly mentions, can not foresee the future, have taken it upon themselves however, to predict, and publish charts showing that the generation will not survive past the end, but will end, pass away, at the start of the great tribulation. The generation (according to Jesus) at that point in time,-has still to see the attack, the Judgement of the S&Gs and Armageddon. wt is ignoring, the very parameters that Jesus set for the generation. It is way longer than wt now teaches. even eternal,
It is the "anointing" of the generation that is the fly in the wt ointment.
Genesis 1:!: The Earth was formed out of material that was forged in 3 generations of exploding stars. It could not possibly have been created at the beginning, coming directly, as you seem to imply, out of the point in time, the Big Bang. the bible, and wt interpretation thereof, is off by a factor of 3 a mere 10 billion years. a lot compared to the ~100 years they are off now.
Of course these generations of stars might have been overlapping too, earlier remnants were used and compressed in later cataclysms until you have carbon, calcium, gold. But to use the questionable antique genealogies with life spans into the hundreds of years to buttress the wt stand on the overlapping anointed, is far fetched.
stick with what David said: Frederick Franz, died 1992, after ~78 years, another like him, but perhaps married, more content, longer lived, picks up there, another ~ >80 Years, 2075, here we come , again, already calculable, using wt writings. Micheal Jackson? who is he?
The strength of wt is not their logical arguments, adhering to bible facts, but that they are able to befuddle the members and keep them in line, facts notwithstanding. regardless.
I lost faith in wt's ability to project bible truth after the "Superior Authority" error revelation. 1960s special pioneers.
Truth: If there is a planet at position 10 (Earth) there will be a body (or two) at position 388, and there is: Pluto
