Help me ID the Logical Fallacy, Please!

by Yan Bibiyan 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Yan Bibiyan

  Spoke to a friend of Mrs. - a fairly involved sister - and asked the question:

  "Circa 1850, small town USA, I am somewhat of a sinner - no murderer or anything, but could live a more productive life - one day I have a vision that my ways are wrong and the only way to redeem myself is to serve the only true God.

  Which organization do I join, which Bible do I read and who provides my timely spiritual food?

  Her answer - "Well we can't be sure, but we shouldn't doubt Jehovah had provided for the faithful christians through his Holy Spirit".

  This seems like two fallacies into one answer - it looks like a Red Herring, because she sidestepped the issue, and it also looks like a Straw Man, because I didn't doubt Jehovah, I doubted the WT's "always had an org" story.

  So is it a Red Herring, Straw Man or maybe Red Man or Straw Herring, since it's a combo?
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  Ding

  There's also the erroneous assumption in the question that to find God you need to find the right organization to join...
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  dgp

  I think it's all three things at the same time.
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  Yan Bibiyan

  There's also the erroneous assumption in the question that to find God you need to find the right organization to join...

  ...well, an assumption put forward by the WTBS itself....in the eyes of a JW, it should make the question that more legit.
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  NewChapter

  We can't be sure but we should have no doubt??? That just makes me dizzy.
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  Marvin Shilmer

  Yan Bibiyan,

  I don’t see a fallacy in the answer you depict. The answer was, in effect, “I don’t know.” What followed afterward was pure opinion; nothing more.

  Marvin Shilmer