Is truth that Jesus came in 1918 and chose to the Jehovah's Witnesses like the true religion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses
2006-08-16 08:05:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No not quite. First the jw said the word was going to end in 1918, when it obviously didn't, they said the world began to end in 1918 it is just taking a very long time to fall apart. This is one of the most creative ways to handle god's not showing up I've ever heard.
You might also want to check out When Prophecy Fails -- A social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. is a book Written by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. Copyright 1956 by the University of Minnesota, published by Harper Torchbooks, Harper and Row. It is out of print but you can get it for a reasonable price on Amazon.
It is in many libraries too. That's where I read it and almost got tossed out for laughing.
2006-08-16 08:21:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
JW's never claimed that Jesus' second coming would happen in 1918. They predicted over 30 years in advance the "end of the Gentile times" would be in 1914 and that something big would happen. Some thought it was Armageddon. This was based on an elaborate Bible prophecy counting from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 640 BCE.
As it would turn out, the scripture in Revelation depicting Satan being cast out of heaven to the vicinity of the earth happened then. What happened in 1914? WWI!
For JW's to believe that they are the right religion isn't arrogant. If you didn't believe that you were in the right religion, why would you be in it? If you don't believe your religion is correct, get out.
2006-08-16 15:36:36 · answer #2 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses are proven to be true Christians because of their strict adherence to the bible, and especially due to their unique fulfillment of Christ's command for Christians to perform a global preaching work.
It was after 1918 that several of those who were then "taking the lead" among Jehovah's Witnesses were released from federal prison and exonerated from the false charges of sedition. At that point, the religion's preaching work received new impetus, quickly making Jehovah's Witnesses the group most widely associated with public house-to-house preaching.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm
2006-08-17 09:37:40 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
Nothing like that.
Humanity suffered a great blow in the form of a tiny little virus called Influenza.
See the link and learn.
It won't be terrorists that bring down man(and woman)kind - it'll be something like avian flu or e-bola or any countless little buggers waiting to bring us to our knees.
We're just hosts awaiting the next big parasite!
2006-08-16 15:13:36 · answer #4 · answered by docscholl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like CRAZY TALK to me! But of course, I AM a BASKETCASE! Seriously though, I think when Jesus comes back it's gonna be a really big deal and everyone will know about it!
2006-08-16 15:11:44 · answer #5 · answered by Suspended 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO!!! Listen Jesus was here once, and is never coming back. He died and is gone. He won't come down to save or preach to anyone!!!
2006-08-16 15:12:29 · answer #6 · answered by silverboy470 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some JWs believe it - and they are the only ones.
2006-08-16 15:13:05 · answer #7 · answered by Applecore782 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Conrtidiction at its finest.
2006-08-16 15:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no.
2006-08-16 15:11:01 · answer #9 · answered by kittens 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋