<< > DAR
A little point I use to make as a JW: While the Bible does say
that "no man knows the day or hour" it does NOT say that
someone couldn't know the year and the month!
Why don't you practice what you preach and be silent where
the Bible is silent, Hughes.>>
<<HUGHES
Why don't you do a little research and see what the phrase "day
and hour" is used to mean in the context that it is being used
DAR? >>
DAR
Oh, the old "that's what it says but that's not what it means"
ruse. I have read the context. Perhaps you can tell me why your
all-powerful god inspired the words "day and hour" yet did not
mean "day and hour". I am only agreeing with what the book says
for pity sake.
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels
of heaven, but my Father only." Matt. 24:36
If you are asserting that the Bible's straightforward statement
of "day and hour" did not mean "day and hour" perhaps you
should be doing the explaining. Jesus did seem to have some
understanding of hours:
"Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?" Jn.
11:9
If your god meant "no man knows the year" or "generation"
why didn't he just say so? Seems like you're adding to scripture to
me.
<<HUGHES
Maybe you'll do a little better as an agnostic/atheist than you
did as a JW. :) >>
DAR
In fact I am doing far better as an agnostic/atheist than I did as
a JW. As is my younger brother who I have helped to recently
leave the JW's and now claims to be an atheist.
<<Dar beaming>>
cheers,
Darrel
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"4.) If Scripture Does Not Mean What It Says, then What
Does it Mean?
When all else fails, there is always the method of "That's what it
says but that's not what it means." Liberties are taken either with
the translation or the interpretation. As George Bernard Shaw
described this curious and common practice: "No man ever
believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always
convinced that it says what he means." --Darrel Henschell (aka
Dardedar), The Perfect Mirror? The Question of Bible
Perfection, pg. 95.