Jehovah’s Witnesses View of Charity
As many of you are well aware, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never been known for having a charitable spirit, not even […]
Doctrines & Policies
Doctrines & Policies, History & Leaders
The Watchtower and “Date Setting”
Former Witness and WT critic, Ronald Fry, couldn’t state it any better when he observed: “The pattern or modus operandi
History & Leaders
Watchtower Reworks the 6000-year Formula
One would think that such prophetic failures would bring an end to speculative date-setting, but it did not. The fact
History & Leaders
Rutherford Blames the Bible Students
By the time 1925 rolled in, Rutherford’s backpedaling about his predictions for that year was in high gear when he said in the February 15, 1925 Watch Tower: “No one may safely predict exactly what will take place, even within the next year; but God has given general indications in his Word of many things which are yet to come to pass. He has not specified exactly their chronological order…”
History & Leaders
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die”
Beginning in 1918 and in the early 1920s, the term, “millions now living will never die” was the slogan that
History & Leaders
Joseph F. Rutherford and the 6000-year Theory
How can we be sure Rutherford used the 6,000 year theory? Because of the dozens of times he mentioned it
History & Leaders
William Miller’s 6000-year Theory
In spite of all the prediction failures, most nineteenth-century Christian denominations taught that God would bring an end to an
Doctrines & Policies
End of the World in 6000 Years – Part 6
Being wrong did not stop prognostication during the nineteenth and twentieth-century from continuing. Calculation methods changed. Scriptural interpretations were reexamined.
Doctrines & Policies
End of the World in 6000 Years – Part 1
The following list is an examination of some of the people who taught that the world would end 6,000 years
Doctrines & Policies
End of the World in 6000 Years – Part 2
Who else held to the “six-thousand-year” premise, and that God had given the time prophecies of Daniel and of Revelation