Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers /1000000) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses, part 2 Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 90 01:19:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 32 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu boris@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Boris Chen) writes: >As for the 1975 thing, I have reletively recently read the article >discussing the year 1975. Gene's mentioning of it in his article >and the context that he put it in, implies that the governing >body was designating 1975 as the date of Armageddon. That is clearly >not true. The article discusses how that date is 6000 years from the >creation of Adam. And and that would indicate that the time is near. >But, of note is the fact that at the end of the article it makes clear >that there can be no certainty that Armageddon would come in 1975. >Many took it that way, and that was wrong. Many people put hope in >a date rather than having true faith in God, thus as expected they >left after the end didn't come at that time. I have seen a book printed by the Watchtower, myself, with a timetable. In the timetable was the following line (about): autumn 1975: End of the normal time. Coming of Armageddon. (it was a dutch version) I am sure I am not mistaken. An ex-Jehovas Witness who came to give a lecture at our christian student group took it with him, he had kept the book after 1975 although everyone had to give back the book at and of 1975, and almost all of them were destroyed. It is sure for me that a specific date was predicted and later the Watchtower tried to cover up the error. -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht muts@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands