JWs & The Garden of Eden

I studied for about a year with two Jehovah's Witnesses that I invited into my home each week. They told me that we would one day get back to a worldwide Garden of Eden, where everything is lush and green and warm. I would like Prince or any other JW to explain this idea further. I live in Canada and I don't see any way it could be warm in January!

Global warming?

markpeg said:

Go to the source: www.watchtower.org

Thanks!

Genesis 1:14 states: “And God went on to say: ‘Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years.’”

It was God or Jehovah's original purpose to have mankind live in this garden and extend that garedn to the ends of the earth and just because Satan,Adam and Eve messed it up his/God/Jehovah's original purpose did not change.

Is your question about the seasons?

I rather enjoy them. And I wonder if we'll have these to some extent in the new world... the Bible doesn't say. It focuses more on the sort of people who will inhabit the world.

...as you already know, if you wanted to realllly know the answer to that question/objection, you could ask a JW's to visit you again, so you could get more of a scriptual response, eh?...but my on-spot answer is, WITH GOD alllll things are possible!!! (he's the CREATOR, HE that cause to become!!!)
but i have to admit, your question was kinda cute...

markpeg said:

silverjean said:

...??? (alias) do you have a new avatar? who is dis?
ciao!!!

Heiress said:

The couple I studied with were elderly and not in the best shape, so they might have left some details out LOL. They also said everyone will be in their late twenties/early thirties and stay that way.

markpeg said:

"lush and green and warm."

for tropic summers cool

what kinda heaven ON earth would deny mother earth her seasons of change though

I asked the couple I studied with if there would be a point in the New Garden of Eden when it would be overpopulated and this is what they said:

"If God can make our bodies fruitful and produce children, He can also make it stop when there are enough people in the world."

"So sex will be just for pleasure, with no worries about pregnancies?" I asked hopefully.

"Yes!" they replied with big grins on their faces.

No wonder Prince is a JW.

markpeg said:

markpeg said:

I don't think it is in the Scriptures, I think it's just JW speculation, and that's my point. This old couple was feeding me a crock of shit and I stopped studying with them.

markpeg said:

rodman2 said:

markpeg said:

It was more of a side discussion we started having when we stopped reading from a little booklet they gave me and the Bible as well. I got the sense that is what they were really hoping for a return to their youth.

I stopped studying with them when I brought in a questionaire from an Inter-denominational Church I was visiting at the time. They were really confused by the idea that you should pray the Sinner's Prayer to become a follower of Jesus. It was then that I told them the Jehovah Witness way was not for me, as I really believed in the Sinner's Prayer.


They phoned me several times after that to come to their meetings at the Hall, but I refused each time and they finally left me alone.

markpeg said:

Go to the source: www.watchtower.org

Thanks!

I think it does indirectly. You're supposed to bring your sins to the cross aren't you?

markpeg said:

No, It's this basically:

Dear God, I am a sinner.

I accept that your Son Jesus died for me on the cross.

I ask you to please forgive my sins.

Come into my life Lord Jesus.

Thank You for hearing my prayer. Amen.


There are more elaborate versions, but that is bascially what is said.

markpeg said:

Go to the source: www.watchtower.org

Thanks!

Thanks I'll have to change my praying.

Heiress said:

AQUABOOGIE said:

Heiress said:

AQUABOOGIE said:

I believe the Garden of Eden was warm because of its location. If Adam & Eve had traveled to a higher elevation they would have worn clothes, not because they were ashamed of their nakedness, because the buns would have froze!
I picture paradise earth of still having four seasons and snow capped mountains. It will be a beautiful place no matter where your at!
[Edited 10/19/07 23:17pm]

Hey, I'm open to anything, really.

But there are canopy theories around too; given that before the flood it "had never rained before"... meaning the earth would have been climatically different in some way.