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There's no help for you here, Steven, when you can't spot your own or others' assertions.

More assertion under the category of confirmation bias. Content please, Steven. (I know, apologetics doesn't need evidence.) Schaff and Ewald simply wrote accurately. Certainly seems that you don't understand the term ("assertion"). Do you have any substantive disagreement? Yes, the stitc...

Steven Avery wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 10:31 pm

spin wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:32 pm Argument by assertion.

My statement was simply an explanatory vocabulary fact.

An alternate word is compression.

Are you trying to make an argument?

Are you having trouble with the notion of assertion?

As for those those thought to be something—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—they added nothing to my message. 7 On the contrary, having seen that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel [[to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to th...

When are we getting to some academic discussion of the topic?

The material here merely seems to be a rehearsal of the unsupported claims we've seen on the Christian Texts and History Forum.

Is it clear that the Teacher of Righteousness is a figure of the past or present known to the author, rather than an idealized figure or possibly a figure hoped for? The writers were not historians and there seems to be nothing to fix the Teacher of Righteousness to any chronology, but they definit...

If the events were in Tiberias, it is a writing style called telescoping. Argument by assertion. As to what influenced Antipas to behead John, Philip Schaff footnote to Eusebius: "[195] Josephus differs with the Evangelists as to the reason for John's imprisonment, but the accounts of the latt...

One apologist laughably says that the dance happened at Machaerus. Another says it happened in Tiberias, stretching the timeframe to many days in order to jimmy the disparate stories to fit together. They are just doing eisegesis. If you feel happy with this obvious nonsense, so be it. When you hea...

Apparently Brodie: ''What is certain is that it is extremely risky to conclude that Josephus did not have access, direct or indirect, either to serious discussion with some Christians or to some of the work of the evangelists, so it is not possible, in any reliable way, to invoke Josephus as an inde...

There is lots of good material on the harmony of the Scriptures and Josephus about the beheading of John the Baptist. Hoehner is often the starting point for other commentaries. Herod Antipas - A Contermporary of Jesus Christ (1976) Harold W. Hoehner https://www.academia.edu/34440106/HEROD_ANTIPAS_...