(January 8, 2016 at 8:56 am)Rhythm Wrote: I doubt that "King X" held long conversations with idiots either, Wyrd. I think that it's easy to establish that the character of god was based upon men....but certainly not any specific man or succession of kings. To give it a fair go, though...which dominant empire's king does the biblical account refer to when it mentions god? Just one example of analog would be fine for discussion, I think.
Remember Darius?
Daniel 6:12 (CEV) = "They went back to the king and said, “Didn’t you make a law that forbids anyone to pray to any god or human except you for the next thirty days? And doesn’t the law say that everyone who disobeys it will be thrown into a pit of lions?” “Yes, that’s the law I made,” the king agreed. “And just like all written laws of the Medes and Persians, it cannot be changed.”"
There's also Antiochus. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=CEB He sounds like the guy who made the threats in Zephaniah.
http://www.gotquestions.org/Antiochus-Epiphanes.html
