(October 18, 2013 at 3:24 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: They believe only 144,000 people in all of history will be saved from death. Though I suppose it still beats your 0.
They believe that 144,000 will join Jesus in heaven, and that many millions more will live forever on Earth after it has been cleansed of wickedness (which includes every non-JW). And yes, if imaginary figures mattered, they'd be offering a much better deal than zero.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
