DENYING THE CREATION ACCOUNT

But do Jehovah Witnesses really not believe in evolution? I ask this because they certainly do not believe in the biblical account of a 6 day creation. Nor do they believe in a afterlife but teach when the body dies we cease to exist. They have more in union with evolution than the bible, they synthesize science with current evolutionary theory.

So what happened to Jesus is no different than what happens to anyone else "Jesus was dead, he was unconscious, out of existence. Death did not mean a transition to another life for Jesus ; rather non existence."(Awake p.27 July,22 1979)

What of Genesis 1 and the 7 days of creation that the bible teaches . Judaism and the church upheld from the beginning these 7 days as literal days.

From their publication "For all people" p.5 "Similarly, religious fundamentalists today distort the Bible when they insist that the earth was created in six 24 hour days. (Gen.1:3-31) Such a view agrees neither with science nor the bible. In the bible, as in everyday speech, the word "day" is a flexible term, expressing units of time of varying lengths. At Genesis 2:4 all six creative days are referred to as one all embracing day. The Hebrew word translated day" in the bible can simply mean a long time." So there is no biblical reason to insist that the days of creation were 24 hours each. By teaching otherwise, fundamentalists misrepresent the bible." "Throughout history, theologians have often distorted the bible."

Really ! lets see whose really misrepresenting the bible! Certainly the term day can have a meaning of a period of time but it is perfectly clear that this is not so for the 6 days of creation. It is they who are COMBINING THE BIBLE WITH SCIENCE.

Vines Dictionary-The word Day (Heb. yom), used both in the particular sense of a natural day and in the general sense of a set time or period of time such as in the day of the Lord Yom adonai which will last 7 years. The word "day" can be used of an indefinite period, e. g "the day" or "day that" means in general "that time" (see Gen. 2:4; Lev. 14:2); "day of trouble" Ps 20:1; "day of his wrath" Job 20:28; "day of Yahweh" Isa 2:12.

Or it can be used in the singular sense. Whenever a day is mentioned with a numeral is next to it, it means that number EX.. Gen.1:5 evening, morning day 2, (a 24 hours) Gen.1:8,13,19,23,31.God was very specific not only in the sequence of days but also mentions evening and morning. So the Jewish reckoning of a day begins in the evening. (This is kept today as the Sabbath begins with 3 stars are visible.

So the word Day also means a period of 24 hours, or the time from sunset to sunset. In Bible usage the day begins with sunset (Lev.23:32; Ex. 12:15-20; 2 Cor.11:25 where night is put before day).

The time space between dawn and dark, or the whole day of 24 hours can be used in a figurative way. But a period of time but it is always defined by the context. If it says day one , day two and describes it as morning evening then how can we possibly interpret it as other than its plain meaning, without changing Gods intent to communicate what it actually is.

Gen. 2:17 "of the tree of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Was this a long period of their eating from the tree? The day they ate they did die. In their Spirit which is what Jehovah Witnesses deny exists. This is why they became sinners separate from God because the physical act affected the spiritual nature in man.

Adam was made on the 6^th day, he died at 930 years. So each day can’t be years.  Since the 7^th day followed the 6^th he would have years longer than days, then exactly how old would Adam have been? In the hundreds of thousands of years according to J.W' interpretations.

What of the plants that were made before the sun how did they live if this was longer than a 24 hour period. If they were long ages they would have died without light.