The Watchtower Society robustly avoids giving its followers any idea that it believes in evolution, and maintains that it adheres to the Genesis account of creation.
However, a closer look at its stand on this important issue reveals that it is heavily influenced by extra-biblical ideas regarding the age of the earth and the origin of death.
Quotations are taken from the Watchtower book "Life- How Did It Get Here? By Evolution Or By Creation?" (Published in 1985).
The first part of Genesis indicates that the earth could have existed for billions of years before the first Genesis "day", though it does not say for how long" (Page 26)
....the creative process continued throughout a period of, not just 144 hours (6 x 24), but over many millenniums of time" (Page 34).
Of course the sun and moon were in outer space long before this first "day", but their light did not reach the surface of the earth for an observer to see" (Page 27).
Where do these ideas come from? Certainly not from reading the Bible.
Exodus 20:11; 31:17 tells us God took six days (not billions of years) to make EVERYTHING.
That obviously includes the heavens, space, angels, planets, stars, comets etc. (Genesis 2:1; Psalms 146:6; Acts 4:24; 14:15).
How did death get into the world? Through sin (Romans 5:12). Not so, says the Watchtower book (Page 71).
Fossils give tangible evidence of the varieties of life that existed long before man's arrival" (Page 71).
Could animals have died before man was created? Read the answer for yourself at Genesis 1:31. Or would you rather believe that statement on page 71?
With this hopelessly compromised position the Watchtower is in, we ask Jehovah's Witnesses: WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE YOUR GOSPEL?
One passage alone (Luke 11:50) is enough to show that "millions of years" will not fit into the Bible.
The Prophets cannot be millions of years old, therefore the world cannot be millions of years old!
Witnesses should also look at the genealogy at Luke 3:23-38. It is obvious that you cannot fit millions of years between any of those verses.
Are you going to try to squeeze them in between verse 38 and Luke 4:1?
Those nice pictures on pages 237 and 243 are hiding something aren't they?
Because if death didn't really get into the world because of Adam's sin, but had been occurring for millions of years in the animal kingdom (remember page 71?) there will be a fossil graveyard under that nice green grass.
Fossils, due not to the fall of man, but to animals living and dying "long before man's arrival."
Such a defective viewpoint about the Watchtower's view of creation and the origin of death will not allow us to take 1 Corinthians 15:21 seriously.
So; WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE YOUR GOSPEL
2 Replies to “The Watch Tower’s Time Frame of Creation”
I will have to say that all these things you are saying are lies. How can you be so sure that the bible meant 24HOURS when it says “days” even in Jesus’ time a day wasn’t even exactly 24 hours. And secondly we do not believe that sin was already there when God created animals and humans. Adam and Eve were the cause if sin not anything else so stop telling false things about our beliefs
Thanks Sam for your reply. Of course the way a JW reads the Bible they cannot really be sure of anything it says then.
Let me ask you these quick questions and see if you can answer them.
1. Why do you not question the length of the word day in any other passage of scripture?
I am quite aware of the context of a passage and can tell if the word day refers to a longer period of time or a number of hours.
2. How many days did Joshua and the Israelites march around Jericho and how long were these days?
3. In Exodus chapter 20 we see in verse 1 God speaking. He goes on to say in verse 11 “for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Do you notice Jehovah says in six days he made everything? This is in relation to Jehovah’s order to the Israelites in verse 9 that for “Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;”.
So Sam are you telling me that the Isrealites need to work for six (let’s say thousand) years before they can have a thousand year day of rest? Is that what you are honestly saying? Also if not, how can God expect the Israelites to only work six 24 hour days but he can take six thousand year days to do his work. The order from Jehovah doesn’t make sense if you read into the bible long periods of time.
4. How long was Jonah in the fish for? Three Thousand of years? Yet Jesus who used Jonah’s experience as an example of his burial in the tomb came out in 3 24 hour days.
You see Sam you just choose to blindly follow the Watchtower Society without thinking through the sillyness of the consequences. Please take God at his word. Read the Bible simply as is. Trust that Jehovah can actually use people to say what actually happened without you and scientists trying to make God out to be a liar.
I will eagerly await your reply Sam.