The Gentile Times Reconsidered Chronology Christ

Sham Scholarship 483
in preparing the material for the Aid-book, much of the time and space
was spent in trying to weaken the credibility of the archaeological and
historical evidence that would make erroneous our 607 B.C.E. date and
give a different starting point for our calculations and therefore an
ending date different from 1914. ... like an attorney faced with evidence
he cannot overcome, my efforts was to discredit or weaken confidence
in witnesses from ancient times ... [so as] to uphold a date for which
there was no historical support.
This confession of Mr Franz is very revealing, as it shows to what length
Jehovah’s Witnesses will go when it comes to defending their ancient dogmas,
and it is evident that Rolf Furuli has learned from this method: he is willing to
discredit God’s Word and twist it for the sake of the doctrines of the sect to
which he belongs; a very deplorable attitude, which, however, is in near perfect
tune with that of the leaders of the organization. Indeed, the entire presentation
is one long and stubborn manipulation of the facts in a most non-scientific way,
as can be seen in his very selective use of ‘evidence’, omitting, avoiding or
denigrating anything and everything which is not in accord with his prejudiced
views. And when he has to face the sound interpretations by reputable scholars,
he does his very best to circumvent them in a mode reminiscent of the style
employed for long by his mentors, the leaders of the sect to which he belongs.
This is not really a scholarly work which may be used to edify truth-seeking
people, but a narrow-minded, sectarian work of little consequence.