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Whatever your attitude toward religion, you surely recognize the great influence it has had upon mankind.
So when people say //The only people who routinely proclaim, with prophetic certainty, that the world is due to come to an end, are the JWs.//
You are wrong ,because the Bible does not say that, and you have the original post.
So I don’t think you will ever understand the Bible.
Andy-hughes@ What you see is pople of this world are gifted with that faculty of consciousness which we call “mind”. Evidently they are not using their minds rightly. That must be why nothing they reason out and attempt is succeeding, but everything is breaking down, leaving them wondering, confused and nonplused. The whole world which worldly men are trying to bring into line with modern thought is fashioned according to wrong thinking, and the longer the world goes, the farther it get away from the absolute truth. (Isa. 55:8-11, )