There is NOTHING—NOTHING WHATSOEVER "legitimate" about calling a good and honest man "intellectually dishonest."
Your (plural) objective sin of calumnious character assassination is not remitted by insisting I have "human respect" for Bob or by proclaiming your "rationality." If you were as rational as you imagine, I wouldn't have to repeatedly state that the calumny, not the FE evidence, is at issue.
Mark, I have repeatedly stated that the intellectual dishonesty has nothing to do with any judgment of him "in the internal forum" regarding his character or honesty. In fact, I'm convinced that he's a "good and honest man," as you describe. I'm not sure how many different ways I have to explain it.
What I'm referring to is a clear up-front intention to want to refute FE and a bias against it. It's very obvious, and can be demonstrated from Dr. Sungenis' own words, that he set out to disprove FE. This has led to his reading things into various citations that are no there in the text, "eisegesis" of the texts he has analyzed (that's his term, which I tend to avoid because it's regularly abused by Modernists). I can give clear examples where to an objective reader there's no evidence in the text itself for what he "sees" there. That can only be because he wants to see it there and is looking for it.
In fact, Mark, Dr. Sungenis does that repeatedly in his book, refers to "eisegesis" by flat earthers due to their bias. He's referred to them as clinging to their ideas on account of bias, and he's gone much further than I have against him by accusing FEs of distorting, and at one point approvingly cited a text from a glober that FEs are dishonest liars.
So, since you're in communication with Dr. Sungenis, will you send him an e-mail now excoriating him fro his "objective sin of calumnious character assassination" against flat earthers? As soon as you send such an e-mail to Dr. Sungenis, then I might take your posts seriously.