RE: The Bible
September 26, 2011 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 3:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's a lot of interpretation required to give this passage meaning. One might ask if the prophecy was actually fulfilled, or if there even was a prophecy in this book to begin with.
"The prophecies of the Book of Daniel have fascinated readers and created controversy for the past two thousand years. Evangelical Christians believe that the prophet Daniel, an official in the courts of Near-Eastern emperors in the sixth century BC, foretold the future of the world from his own time to the end of the age. Actually, the book was written in Palestine in the mid-second century BC by an author who expected God to set up his everlasting kingdom in his own near future, as we read in the mainline commentaries and Bible dictionaries"
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/c...aniel.html
(bold added, the link directs you to a fairly extensive review of the Book of Daniel and it's "prophecies")
"The prophecies of the Book of Daniel have fascinated readers and created controversy for the past two thousand years. Evangelical Christians believe that the prophet Daniel, an official in the courts of Near-Eastern emperors in the sixth century BC, foretold the future of the world from his own time to the end of the age. Actually, the book was written in Palestine in the mid-second century BC by an author who expected God to set up his everlasting kingdom in his own near future, as we read in the mainline commentaries and Bible dictionaries"
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/c...aniel.html
(bold added, the link directs you to a fairly extensive review of the Book of Daniel and it's "prophecies")
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