What Poor Reasoning!

Below are two examples of poor reasoning. You will notice similarities to today.

E5 Pg. 171-172

Example #1: There are two statements in the article from which J. F. R. and others have inferred the dates, but quite erroneously. One of these statements is to the effect (p. 264, col. 2, pars. 2, 6) that the end of the wrath on Israel was April, 73, and that the parallel of this date was April, 1918. This statement is true, but does not refer at all to the reaping; rather it refers to the burning of the chaff; and of course completing the burning of the chaff in Fleshly Israel cannot be paralleled with completing the reaping of the wheat in Spiritual Israel. People who blunder into such an inference are not safe guides. They surely will lead others into the ditch! The second statement from which the inference was drawn that April, 1878, and April, 1918, respectively witnessed the beginning and ending of the reaping, is that made on there being no garner until Pentecost, 33 A.D. (p. 264, col. 2, par. 1). The reasoning that produced this inference is the following:Since there was no garner until Pentecost, 33 A.D., there was therefore no reaping until then! hence there was no reaping until Pentecost, 1878, the parallel time in the Gospel Harvest; and since the Gospel reaping lasts 40 years, the reaping must have ended in 1918!

What poor reasoning! In it the reaping process is confounded with the garnering process…

Example #2:

PT. 2006 Page 21

The emphasis put forth in this writing is that the Youthful Worthies came forth as a class in 1881. Therefore, since their existence as individuals must logically precede their arrival as a class, it must have been in1878.

In light of all the Truth concerning the Youthful Worthies. What poor reasoning!