Hi Older!  Miss you in the less friendly section!  Sorry so many did not appreciate your posts - I did appreciate them, btw.

Christian Love,

Paul aka Newtonain

    I have a question for you and it will take me some length here to ask it so please bear with me.

   The Watchtower first taught that Christ would visibly return in 1914, and when that prophecy failed, they moved the date to 1915 which failed also.  In 1918 they predicted that King David and the other "Old Testament worthies" would be resurrected back to life in 1925 and they purchased a mansion in San Diego to house them.  That also proved to be a failure though Judge Rutherford said there was more "biblical evidence" of that than Noah had of the coming Flood.  In 1938 at the annual confence of Jehovah's Witnesses, Rutherford announced that no one should marry, raise a family, go to college, nor pursue a career because the end of the world was so close.  That proved to be false but not realized until 1953.  In 1941 the book "Children" was publised which said the same thing and it was also false.  In 1968 Fred Franz made it known that something was going to happen in 1975 and that also proved to be untrue.  in 1989 the Watchtower predicted the end of the world would occur before the end of the 20th Century and that failed as well.

    There has never been a Watchtower prediction of a looming eschatological disaster based upon Bible evidence with a date attached that has ever been accurate.   Even single Watchtower prediction has failed without exception, and this is an unprecedented record of failure for any group calling itself Christian.   What is also interesting is the fact that all these failures were not detected by Watchtower scholarship, further Bible study, or exegesis; but it was the calendar that exposed all the failures, meaning that if it wasn't for the dates, the Watchtower may well still be teaching them as if the Bible actually said these things. 

   My question is: considering the dismal failure of the Watchtower to understand what the Bible teaches about these things and demonstrable ineptness it has of Bible understanding, what about all the other doctrines they teach that do not have dates attached?  How can anyone be sure that whatever the Watchtower teaches is biblically accurate?