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In part 1 of this series, we saw how critics attempt to assign a late date of around 167 B.C. to the book of Daniel, in order to claim that the prophecies in Daniel were not supernatural at all, but simply forgeries written after the fact. We saw how detailed the prophecies were, and how they reach even beyond the 167 B.C. date of the critics. But how do we answer their arguments for a late date to Daniel? Daniel not one of the prophets? Skeptics claim that since Daniel was included in the Kethuvim, or "Writings" in the Masoretic text, it must have been dated no earlier than 200 B.C.,...
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Skeptics have attacked the book of Daniel perhaps more than any other book in the Bible. Why is this so? I believe the reason is because the Book of Daniel contains such powerful evidence that it is a supernatural, divinely inspired book, and therefore is a great threat to those who have a anti-supernatural worldview. Daniel the prophet lived during the sixth century B.C. and he wrote many prophetic statements that described historical facts so accurately that skeptics over the centuries have tried to assign a late date to the Book of Daniel on the premise that no one can foretell the future....
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How does Passover, one of the most well-known feasts of Israel, foreshadow the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ? The Feast of the Passover, is celebrated on the fourteenth of Nisan― the very day Christ was crucified. With Passover there are many other types and shadows of the death of Christ on the cross and also types anticipating salvation by His shed blood. The Passover feast commemorated the night when the blood of the lamb sacrificed was put on the doorposts of the houses of Israelites so that the angel of death would pass over the houses so marked. It didn’t matter whether...
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Have you heard someone teach that the book of Isaiah had two different authors? That there were two Isaiahs? This "Second Isaiah " theory has become popular among some modern scholars, who can't accept the idea that God could actually predict the future. In chapters 40-66 of Isaiah, many predictions were made about Israel's Babylonian Captivity, which occurred in 587 B.C. However, the time of the prophet Isaiah was in the 700's B.C., and so the critics had to come up with a second Isaiah that wrote chapters 40-66 sometime after the Babylonian Captivity, and then just made it appear that...
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In this modern skeptical age, many people have been totally mis-informed about the Bible. Attacks on the Bible as God's Word are everywhere, and myths about the Bible abound in today's culture. Here are five common myths about the Bible you may have heard, and the startling truth you need to know about them: Myth #1: The Bible has been copied so many times, it's like the telephone game, all we have are copies full of errors and so we don't have the original. The Truth: If there is any text we can be sure we have reliable copies of, it's the Bible. The reliability of copies of an ancient...
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When reading the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, one notices very quickly that the stories are in a different order in many places between them. This has led some to conclude that they invented the stories, and were playing fast and loose with the facts. But is this the correct way of looking at them? It is true that some of the gospel stories are arranged in different order in each of the three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke). For example, look at the story of Jesus when He is in the boat and calms the storm on the Sea of Galilee. In Matthew 8:23-27, this story comes...
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Why was the Resurrected Christ only seen by believers? Doesn't that make it suspect, because they were biased? Why aren't there reports from unbelievers? These are questions often posed by the skeptic. Do we have a good answer for them? What they are really asking for is eyewitness reports from people without any particular vested interest in what they claim to have seen. They believe that this is the only kind of witness that would be unbiased and trustworthy. But this reasoning is flawed on several counts: If we ignored all historical writings where the writer had an interest...
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Ok, says the skeptic, if the gospels are divinely inspired documents, how come in Matthew 20:29-34, Jesus heals two blind men as He leaves Jericho, but in Luke 18:35-43, Jesus is said to have healed one blind man, Bartimeus, and this healing was as He came into Jericho? Further, Mark 10:46-52 says He healed one man, Bartimeus again, as He was leaving Jericho? Couldn't the gospel writers count? Did they not quite know if they were coming or going? This is the typical type of "contradiction" that critics bring up, who then come to the conclusion that the passages containing the contradictions,...
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Roman ruins of Tyre with seacoast One of the most dramatic examples of very specific and accurate prophecy are those predictions concerning the city of Tyre, as seen in the book of Ezekiel. It is important to know that the book of Ezekiel is firmly dated by scholars from 590–570 B.C. As mentioned earlier, the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament was made in 280–250 B.C.Multiple biblical prophets make many predictions about places like Tyre, Samaria, Gaza, Ashkelon, Jerusalem, Edom, Nineveh, Babylon and more. Each of these nations had different things happen to them during their...
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Do the verses prohibiting practicing homosexuality in the book of Leviticus apply today? Some critics don't think so. I was at a presentation at a local university several years ago, and heard a well known theologian speaking about the Old Testament. When the speaker defended the homosexual lifestyle and basically said that the Bible doesn't apply today, a questioner from the audience objected, bringing up verses in the book of Leviticus that say that the practice of homosexuality is an "abomination" to the Lord (Lev. 18:22, 20:13, KJV). The speaker ridiculed the question, saying that...
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