If you're going to resurrect a year-old thread, you should at least have the courtesy to use accurate information.
The key date is 537 BC, a date every scholar accetps for the decree ending the Babylonian captivity, which they beleive by prophecy would be 70 years after the exile began.
Other godbots look to events in 517 to try to explain the 760 years prophecy, with the usual laughable results.
Actually, there are three different occasions where captives are taken to Babylon, one as early as 596 and one as late as 581, and Jerusalem itself was never destroyed.
There are reasons of organization history that make the Sep 1914 - srping 1918 period particularly important.
Earthquake that kills 40,000.
Germany re-takes the Ruhr valley, re-arms, signs military agreements with France and Britain, and passes the Nuremburg laws.
The Dust Bowl.
I'm sure they could find more, if needed. You can play up the events of any year needed.
There has been no embarrassment since there have been no hard predictions after 1918.
No, they didn't. Those who hate the JWs like to claim they did, but their evidence is always lacking.
It was the meaning of the word "generation" that became more flexible for them.
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Russel believed that Jerusalem was destroyed in 606BCE, but then changed it to 607BCE, a date that no scholar outside the Jehovah's Witnesses accepts.
The key date is 537 BC, a date every scholar accetps for the decree ending the Babylonian captivity, which they beleive by prophecy would be 70 years after the exile began.
Other godbots look to events in 517 to try to explain the 760 years prophecy, with the usual laughable results.
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Archaeological evidence proves that Jerusalem was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586BCE, twenty-one years later.
Actually, there are three different occasions where captives are taken to Babylon, one as early as 596 and one as late as 581, and Jerusalem itself was never destroyed.
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Even though the 607 date is blatantly false, Jehovah's Witnesses continue to believe it, because if the organization were to accept the 586 date, that would put Christ's invisible return at 1935, which is not as "sexy" as 1914.
There are reasons of organization history that make the Sep 1914 - srping 1918 period particularly important.
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Nothing of worldwide note happened in 1935, unlike the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Earthquake that kills 40,000.
Germany re-takes the Ruhr valley, re-arms, signs military agreements with France and Britain, and passes the Nuremburg laws.
The Dust Bowl.
I'm sure they could find more, if needed. You can play up the events of any year needed.
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The Witnesses have had to change many of their timetables due to embarrassment of the "end" not coming.
There has been no embarrassment since there have been no hard predictions after 1918.
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They have also pointed to 1925, 1944, and 1975 as the year of Armageddon, all to no avail.
No, they didn't. Those who hate the JWs like to claim they did, but their evidence is always lacking.
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Their teaching that the "generation" who saw 1914 would not pass away had to be adjusted in 1995 to become much more ambiguous.
It was the meaning of the word "generation" that became more flexible for them.
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With formal systems, such as mathematics, you can have certainty and demonstrability, but not reality.
With science, such as physics, you can have reality and demonstrability, but not certainty.
With belief systems, such as Christianity, you can have reality and certainty, but not demonstrability.
--HRG, on CARM (paraphrased with his approval)
"Come now, and let us reason together"
With formal systems, such as mathematics, you can have certainty and demonstrability, but not reality.
With science, such as physics, you can have reality and demonstrability, but not certainty.
With belief systems, such as Christianity, you can have reality and certainty, but not demonstrability.
--HRG, on CARM (paraphrased with his approval)
"Come now, and let us reason together"
