Jehovah's Witnesses, why do you keep on making false doomsday prophecies?

Witnesses who visit me always make a pitch about the return of the Lord. Is this your way of converting people?





Since the founding of your religion in 1889 you have made many erroneous prophecies about the Lord’s coming? What can you say about these two JW prophecies, which never materialized?





1966 ';Six thousand years from man’s creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E'; (Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God, 29).


1968 ';The end of the six thousand years of man’s history in the fall of 1975 is not tentative, but is accepted as a certain date'; (WT, 1-1-1968, 271).





Please understand that it is not my intention to bash your religion. I just want to know your explanation.Jehovah's Witnesses, why do you keep on making false doomsday prophecies?
Here is a list of there dates that they did predictions.





1872 Beginning of the millennium. Wrong! Watchtower publications later changed the date to 1975, another date in which it did not happen.





1874 Christ's second coming. Nothing happened. The Bible says His second coming will be seen by all.





1914 All world governments to be overthrown. God will glorify His people and govern the world.





1915 When man's governments were not replaced by God's in 1914, the date was changed to 1915. The Watchtower Society later admitted these prophecies ';had not been fulfilled.';





1918 End of Gentile times, the churches to be destroyed.





1920 The mountains, republics, and kingdoms were to disappear.





1925 The kingdom was to be established in Palestine. Faithful men of the Old Testament were to return. It was later admitted that this and the 1918 prediction were wrong.





1929 A house was built for the return of the Old Testament faithful. It was sold in 1948 because they did not return.





1932 The Watchtower stated that the date for the overthrow of Christendom had been moved up from 1925 (previously 1918) to 1932 and that the overthrow did not happen in 1932 either.





1975 Since the Millennium had not begun in 1872, the date was changed to 1975. Again nothing happened.





See what there founder said


Pastor Russell, founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses, suggested a test to determine which prophets we should not follow:





';Jehovah, the God of the true prophets, will put all false prophets to shame either by not fulfilling the false prediction of such self-assuming prophets or by having His own prophecies fulfilled in a way opposite to that predicted by the false prophets. False prophets will try to hide their reason for feeling shame by denying who they really are.';





What does this mean that can they be trusted or not. Make your own opinionJehovah's Witnesses, why do you keep on making false doomsday prophecies?
The prophesies are only false after they don't happen
Progressive, organization changes


Walking in the Path of Increasing Light


“The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established.”—PROVERBS 4:18.


WHO can better describe the effect that the rising sun has on the darkness of the night than the very Source of light, Jehovah God? (Psalm 36:9) ‘When the morning light takes hold on the ends of the earth,’ God says, ‘the earth transforms itself like clay under a seal, and things take their station as in clothing.’ (Job 38:12-14) With increasing light from the sun, earth’s features take shape and become clearer, just as soft clay undergoes a transformation upon receiving an imprint from an emblem on a seal.


Jehovah is also the Source of spiritual light. (Psalm 43:3) While the world remains in dense darkness, the true God continues to shed light upon his people. With what result? The Bible answers: “The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established.” (Proverbs 4:18) Increasing light from Jehovah continues to illuminate the path of his people. It refines them organizationally, doctrinally, and morally.


Enlightenment Leads to Organizational Refinements


Through the prophet Isaiah, Jehovah foretold: “Instead of the copper I shall bring in gold, and instead of the iron I shall bring in silver, and instead of the wood, copper, and instead of the stones, iron.” (Isaiah 60:17) Just as replacing an inferior material with a superior one denotes improvement, Jehovah’s Witnesses have experienced improvements in their organizational arrangements all through “the conclusion of the system of things,” or “the last days.”—Matthew 24:3; 2 Timothy 3:1.





How is your light getting brighter!
';1966';Six thousand years from man’s creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E'; (Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God, 29).


1968';The end of the six thousand years of man’s history in the fall of 1975 is not tentative, but is accepted as a certain date'; (WT, 1-1-1968, 271).';





Exactly where do you see a ';prophecy'; in these quotes?








neshama, ';why jehovas witnessess has their very own ';Bible';-translation.';





The New World Translation is a modern language Bible. That said please be aware that many became Jehovah's Witnesses using whatever Bible was on hand be it a King James Version or an American Standard Version
ptttff...tell me about it..and then when you ask them...they will deny to the death....
I don't think they are so open about their predictions any more. I have been conversing with a young man who is studying with them and is near the baptism stage and he said they are not making these predictions and everyone he is affiliated with say they never did make any predictions. he was asking me about my experience with them in 1975 and he actually thinks I am mistaken about what they taught me back then. He said the ones he asked outright denies they ever did.





This is a first on me. All of the Witnesses I ever knew since the sixties never denied their predictions, they just made some excuse for the failed ones and said the next one was the correct date.
truth will expell them.
False prophets make false prophecies.
i'm more interested in why jehovas witnessess has their very own ';Bible';-translation. I wonder what they have done to the real bible text, hope somenone makes a question of it...
Its misquoted thats why.





May 1 watchtower 1968 pages 271 -273








THE SEVENTH DAY





4 According 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. Then God brought the animals to man to name. Yet, of Adam, Genesis states these words of Jehovah: ';It is not good for the man to continue by himself.'; (Gen. 2:18) Adam would realize this lonely condition very quickly, perhaps in just a few days or a few weeks. He would realize he needed another earthling with whom he could communicate, share his experiences, and his life. Nor would his naming the animals take an unduly long time. The basic animal kinds could have been relatively quickly named, for when such basic kinds were taken into the ark in Noah’s day, it did not involve millions of beasts, but perhaps only a few hundred basic kinds. Thus, Adam’s naming of the animals and his realizing that he needed a counterpart would have occupied only a brief time after his creation. Since it was also Jehovah’s purpose for man to multiply and fill the earth, it is logical that he would create Eve soon after Adam, perhaps just a few weeks or months later in the same year, 4026 B.C.E. After her creation, God’s rest day, the seventh period, immediately followed.





5 Therefore, God’s seventh day and the time man has been on earth apparently run parallel. To calculate where man is in the stream of time relative to God’s seventh day of 7,000 years, we need to determine how long a time has elapsed from the year of Adam and Eve’s creation in 4026 B.C.E. From the autumn of that year to the autumn of 1 B.C.E., there would be 4,025 years. From the autumn of 1 B.C.E. to the autumn of 1 C.E. is one year (there was no zero year). From the autumn of 1 C.E. to the autumn of 1967 is a total of 1,966 years. Adding 4,025 and 1 and 1,966, we get 5,992 years from the autumn of 4026 B.C.E. to the autumn of 1967. Thus, eight years remain to account for a full 6,000 years of the seventh day. Eight years from the autumn of 1967 would bring us to the autumn of 1975, fully 6,000 years into God’s seventh day, his rest day.





6 After 6,000 years of misery, toil, trouble, sickness and death under Satan’s rule, mankind is indeed in dire need of relief, a rest. The seventh day of the Jewish week, the sabbath, would well picture the final 1,000-year reign of God’s kingdom under Christ when mankind would be uplifted from 6,000 years of sin and death. (Rev. 20:6) Hence, when Christians note from God’s timetable the approaching end of 6,000 years of human history, it fills them with anticipation. Particularly is this true because the great sign of the ';last days'; has been in the course of fulfillment since the beginning of the ';time of the end'; in 1914. And, as Jesus said, ';this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.'; (Matt. 24:34) Some of the generation that discerned the beginning of the time of the end in 1914 will still be alive on earth to witness the end of this present wicked system of things at the battle of Armageddon.—Rev. 16:14, 16.





7 The immediate future is certain to be filled with climactic events, for this old system is nearing its complete end. Within a few years at most the final parts of Bible prophecy relative to these ';last days'; will undergo fulfillment, resulting in the liberation of surviving mankind into Christ’s glorious 1,000-year reign. What difficult days, but, at the same time, what grand days are just ahead!





8 Does this mean that the year 1975 will bring the battle of Armageddon? No one can say with certainty what any particular year will bring. Jesus said: ';Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows.'; (Mark 13:32) Sufficient is it for God’s servants to know for a certainty that, for this system under Satan, time is running out rapidly. How foolish a person would be not to be awake and alert to the limited time remaining, to the earthshaking events soon to take place, and to the need to work out one’s salvation!





If you look at the website below, you can see the actual quotes. You can also see the misquotes people show (as shown above.)





http://users.picknowl.com.au/~hepburn/pr…





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I would show so called false prophecies created by Christendom, but what you think they are false prophets? Not at all.








Update: Based on your previous questions asked, you are here to bash Jehovah's Witnesses.


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DOUBLE STANDARD?





for the enemy's first atomic bomb? New York! Secondly, Chicago; and thirdly, the city of Los Angeles.'; ';My own theory about Communism,'; he said in 1957, ';is that it is master minded by Satan,';Like most nativist prophets, Graham predicted the imminent end of the world: ';I Sincerely believe that the Lord draweth nigh.'; ';We may have another year, maybe two years,'; he said in 1950. ';to work for Jesus Christ, and [then], ladies and gentlemen, I believe it is all going to be over...Two years, and it's all going to be over.'; Two years later he said, ';Unless this nations turns to Christ within the next few months, I despair of its future.';





';1836 The end of the non-chronos, and of the many kings; the fulfilling of the word, and of the mystery of God; the repentance of the survivors in the great city; the end of the 'little time,' and of the three times and a half; the destruction of the east; the imprisonment of Satan.





1988 - Return of Christ. (Edgar C. Whisenant, in the book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture is in 1988)





1843 - William Miller, an important figure in what would become the Seventh-day Adventist Church, used the Book of Daniel to predict the Second Coming, and said it would be between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844.





1844 - William Miller revised the Return of Christ to this date, which is known as the Great Disappointment. (Members of the Bahá'í Faith believe that Christ did return on May 23 1844 as the Báb (the Gate), the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh (Glory of God)








Theres more:





http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wr…





Are the Churches false prophets too?





Again, I will no longer answer any of your questions if you're going to attack Jehovah's Witnesses.
I had a JW officemate back in the late sixties who sold her properties because of this false prophecy.

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