While not as quickly as Waterrock, I thought I might go through some of the JW references under "Interpretations".
For the first entry, we see that an old teaching has been replaced, and is therefore the SAB entry is not accurate.
In the SAB:
Current JW teaching:
Note that JWs distinguish the beginning of the universe from the start of the "creative days" of Genesis 1.
For the first entry, we see that an old teaching has been replaced, and is therefore the SAB entry is not accurate.
In the SAB:
Quote:
Jehovah's Witnesses: 46,026 BCE
The JW book "Let God Be True" (1946) says that each of the seven days of creation was 7,000 years long. And that since Adam was "created toward the close of the sixth day, he was put on earth toward the end of 42,000 years of earth's preparation." (p. 155) And since "[a]ccording to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 B.C.E., likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation" (April 1, 1968, Watchtower), we know that the universe was created in 46,026 BCE.
Current JW teaching:
Quote:
For instance, creationists often say that the entire universe was created in six literal 24-hour days some 6,000 years ago. With teachings like this, they misrepresent the Bible, which says that God created the heavens and the earth "in the beginning"at some unstated point before the more specific creative "days" began.
Note that JWs distinguish the beginning of the universe from the start of the "creative days" of Genesis 1.
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