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If you believe it takes the verse out of context, then you didn't dwell on it as I asked you to. Some simple questions. Could Elisabeth have conceived in Nisan, the first month of the year? Yes or no? Could Elisabeth, after she conceived, have hid herself for five months, being the months of...

I thought I gave you a very thorough explanation as to why I reject some of what you've posted. I don't think it's necessary to repeat myself. It's not about what supports my opinion. What you don't recognize is that you're not rejecting my opinion. You're rejecting my arguments as to whether...

I checked up on this. You were right. I didn't even know about a Jordan river in Canada. But I did check, and find, the information for the correct river, and the average winter temperature is 59°-62°, which is still in a dangerous range. A person can go in water that cold and be baptized, but...

Concerning authenticity, I know I already sort of explained, but let me help you understand where I'm coming from. We (scholars who research these topics) know because of the content what is genuine and what is not. For example, the Acts of Pilate is very well written. If not for a couple of...

This here . . . This is insulting. The bibliography for my book is almost forty pages. I take exception to being classified, even inferentially, as being one of those keyboard warriors who reads two or three articles online and thinks they know everything about a subject. I have done my...

Here is a great example of how you don't really give me due consideration. What I was saying is that the document is from the fourth century. Scholars, not Internet chatter, have called many of the supposed authors into question based on some of the content. The fact of the matter is, we don't...

So, I'm going to say this . . . Everything I say, you respond with, "yes, but . . .," followed by an instructional lecture, as though I'm a novice in need of instruction, when you could simply state your rebuttal point and source and leave it at that. You're absolutely right that we're going to...

Sources on what? I'm not saying that 29 was not the year of their consulship. I'm saying that the position that he was crucified in that year was a belief held in later centuries.

@Deborah~ and @JSRG I went to look the reference up, and I now see why I couldn't find it. The program I use that has the Church Fathers' writings is literally missing book four in Hippolytus' commentary on Daniel. It has a link, but the page is blank. I have no earthly idea why.

That link went to a disabled webpage. I'll see if I can find it elsewhere.

Now that I see the whole quote, I can say with certainty that it’s an interpolation, and not a genuine quote. Christ’s death in the year of the Gemini, viz. the consulship of C. Fufius Geminus and L. Rebellius Geminus (29 CE), was a position held much later, in the fourth and fifth centuries...

Concerning Luke . . . I'd be appreciative if you would digest this for a bit before giving a knee-jerk response. Luke says, "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth [ . . . ]," etc. (Lk. 1:26) Because of Luke 1:24 and Luke 1:36, "[ . ...

First, the Apostolic Constitutions is a fourth century work, written or composed well after the establishment of December 25th as the day of the nativity. You'll note that a forty-day period of Lent is also mentioned, which wasn't established until the first Council of Nicaea. A good deal of...

Source citation for this, please. To clarify, a source citation that says what you're saying, and not an example of a single instance where a date in a singular year fell on a particular day of the week in that year. You need corroborative evidence that the same dates coincided with the same...

Okay. That still doesn't prove your contention.

This is the part that requires hard evidence that you have yet to supply. There is ample literature of the period to demonstrate various calendar dates falling on different days of the week. If the Sabbaths were fixed to specific calendar dates, then all the festivals would be on the same...

I would have to say that God chose Nero. God often uses wicked kings (vessels of wrath) to fulfill his purposes. Pharoah was used for his glory. God hardened his heart to be against Israel so God could be glorified. Nebuchadnezzar was used to lay waste to Jerusalem when God deemed Israel worthy...

You told me a whole bunch of stuff that I suspect you know I already know. I have shared some of my work with you. But you still didn't offer the citation I asked for. If Clement specified December 25th, I would like to see it. I know of nothing prior to the fourth century CE that gives that...

Don't misunderstand me. I didn't offer an opinion. I offered a strategy for a solution. If "ideal" to you is to buy a piece of property, build a house, and build an in-law house in the back so your parents can do as you suggest, then that is the, "what you want to do." The next step is to make a...

The only thing you've proven here is that the seventh day of the week, called the Sabbath by the Jews, was called the day of Saturn by the Romans. I don't disagree with this. But you haven't actually proven that specific days of the week were fixed to specific dates of the month. Pointing out...