Issuing “rebuttals” for everything is just the way Lloyd Evans’ thinking process goes. He truly believes he’s the smartest guy in any given room and surrounds himself with people who agree. When he was on this forum, he’d wade into a discussion offering a breakdown of his thoughts. Even people who essentially agreed with his position were often told there wasn’t something they had a complete handle over and needed to do their own research to come over to his line of thinking. It’s always right or wrong with him, with his position always being the correct one.
I did my own mental rebuttals to convention material whilst I was still attending them. It’s not like we’re debating academic scholars on this; this is Jehovah’s Witnesses after all. If you need Lloyd’s take on a convention from a religion you left to feel validated, then you really need to do you own research. Lloyd’s 607 rebuttal is basically a reiteration of Carl Olaf Jonsson’s late 1970s treatise he submitted to the GB and later formed the basis of his book. Anyone reading Carl’s book is capable of doing a 607 rebuttal. Likewise most of Lloyd’s critiques of the GB are drawn from Raymond Franz’s and James Penton’s books and later Barbara Anderson’s insider info.
This is also why he’s branching out into rebutting the Mormons. There are a lot of publications out there that one can read to give them adequate info to debate a Mormon. I personally find little benefit in someone from a JW background debating a Mormon. I actually feel sympathy towards those missionaries in Croatia that there’s this disgusting slob of a person pretending he’s interested in their religion when he’s only seeking to add content he can make money off of.
