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   >>A jw vatican claim:   
   >>   
   >>"The incredible claim that earthquakes have increased 20 fold since 1914   
   >>has been used as an illegitimate way to convince Jehovah's Witnesses we are   
   >>living in the "last days." This is related to Jesus' statement in Luke   
   >>21:11 that there will be "great earthquakes" as a sign of the "end."   
   >>   
   >>Hmmm, has friend james followed Paul to "prove all things" on this claim?   
   >>Let's hehlp him out, in short when God's 2nd revelation is observed in the   
   >>"ever brighter light" of science He provides; short answer - it is pure   
   >>bovine excrement.   
   >>   
   >>Friend james can now turn the spotlight of Paul's test on the jw vatican   
   >>itself that he might "prove all things" about jw vatican claims in all   
   >>areas.   
   >>   
   >>The jw vatican says something like; "the news these days if full of   
   >>earthquake reports".  That is poured backward into the Luke above and the   
   >>circular logic is complete.   
   >>   
   >>"See" they say, its happening and we know because the bible told us.   
   >>   
   >>In other words, the jw vatican is correct because it says it is so based on   
   >>the filling backward the Luke. The jw vatican did not follow Paul's "prove   
   >>all things", no?   
   >   
   Friend james causes me to be embarrassed for him again, follow the   
   jw vatican inspired circulaar logic below:   
      
   >It all depends what the Bible meant by those earthquakes. Did it mean   
   >there would literally be more of them? Or that the REPORTING of them   
   >would increase? (   
      
   Bingo, back fill the Luke with "could be" speculation to excuse the jw   
   vatican failed prediction; read them; not more reporting but 20 times more   
   quakes period:   
      
      In 1984, Survival into a New Earth proclaimed;   
      
        "The frequency of major earthquakes has increased to about 20 times   
   what it was on an average during the two thousand years before 1914."   
   Survival   
        into a New Earth (1984) p.23   
      
      The following year, Reasoning from the Scriptures repeated this claim.   
        "This means that, in comparison with the previous 2,000 years, the   
   average per year has been 20 times as great since 1914." Reasoning from the   
        Scriptures (1985) p.236   
      
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