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My remark regarding the "circumcision of the heart" was my agreement with Stephen's assessment that we are looking at colorful language, which, by the way, you just confirmed. No issue there. Now apply this to the "eunuchs", and you are getting somewhere. "Believers" ma...

You have to only think of Paul's "circumcision of the heart" to see that kind of language at work, yes.

Also, the Peshitta suggestion disregards the context - yes, looking at the context seems to be a terrible suggestion, I know... I'm not even sure that was always considered figuratively. Origen took that quite literally, which wasn't received well by the church. Anyway, in context, the word must mea...

Unless of course the field of scholarship was spectroscopy... Which, without access to the actual original document to perform this spectroscopy on, is irrelevant. Or computer image processing... Aren't we all? Anyway, doesn't matter. Or both. Yeah, sure. I also have my Ph.D. or can claim "exp...

I treat being an Apostle as a Big Deal; have you ever seen someone compile a list of the 70(2)? You can already find two lists on Wikipedia, one attributed to Hippolytus, one to Irenaeus, both from late manuscripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventy_disciples#Lists_of_the_disciples'_names The i...

Paul was turned down for succession by the apostles in Acts 1:23, so you can delete that one and save some time :-) Sure, but in Acts 14, he is called an apostle twice (verses 4 and 14), so back in the race he is. That's where we get Paul -> Timothy -> Titus etc. from. Your reasoning also disregard...

Nobody in scholarship is an ad hominum attack on me because it assumes I'm not in scholarship. Well, I still assume you are not in any relevant field of scholarship, as a scholar in the relevant fields would know Latin (which you don't) or Greek (which you don't either). And no, that's still not an...

Having looked at the evidence (try watching the videos), which is by now overwhelming, you would have had to do better than "nobody in scholarship" for me to take any of your claims seriously, . Ad homina doesn't go very far. Where is that supposed "ad hominem" argument here? Re...

I found his video series very helpful, as it conveys a lot visually - the photo montage Steven posted is a prime example. You should read the threads on this forum about this topic. Those "visually helpful" photo montages are misleading. If you look into it, the proponents of the "mo...

The English name "Damascus" is basically identical to the Latin name, which in turn is derived from the Greek name ("Damaskos", using the Latin alphabet here for simplicity). As a Greek (or Latin) word, the name of the town is subject to declension, or in other words, uses differ...