(August 20, 2023 at 9:18 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 20, 2023 at 9:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: IDK. I think we can all call a mulligan. It's rare for us to describe or explain something right, and the very first time. The trouble with christian apologetics is that it's not an attempt to get things right the second time. It's an attempt to reassert the troubled bits some other way, the second time. Inevitably necessitating a third, and a fourth, and a...rinse and repeat for centuries.
Daniel 9:26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood...
2nd Century BCE (after nothing happened): "Oh, it was sixty-two weeks of YEARS!"
2nd Century CE (after Rome wiped out the city): "The flood part referred to the legions. It was a flood of soldiers."
1975 CE: "The Soviet Union will destroy Jerusalem"
1995 CE: "The Russians will destroy Jerusalem"
2029 CE: "China will destroy Jerusalem."
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Carrier's LONG list of historical errors. https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/18242
Daniel was a forgery. A total fraud.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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