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The God of the bible wants one to dig a little instead of being indulged like a slob or spoiled brat fed everything on a proverbial silver platter.
Does the God of the bible mention anything about treating other people with some common decency, perchance? I don't recall ever calling you any names. Let's try and respect the spirit of friendly discussion here. I'm not even the one who started this thread, so don't act as though I'm the one trying to provoke a flame war.(Curious that you'd bring the point about us being required to do a thorough literary analysis of the bible to understand it though, since I brought that precise issue up in another thread. You should give it a look - I hope you're not implying that those without bibles, or the analytic skill, or the luxury of time, to delve into them as you have aren't worthy of knowing the truth.)Believe me, I'd very much like to not buy into the stereotype of Christians being arrogant, self-righteous people, so please do both yourself and me a favor and don't say things like that.Now, as for the actual prophecies.I have heard this line of reasoning before. I find it very unconvincing. Here is why.First, the Jews never used a 30-day month or 360-day "prophetic year" in their entire history. They used a lunar calendar which varied between 29 and 30 days per month, and had 354 days per year, and then added a thirteenth month every few years to keep it in sync with the solar year. No nation in history has ever used an inflexible 360-day calendar without adding days somewhere. So the entire premise being used for your math is unsubstantiated. This is a fatal flaw for the theory, I think.The only arguments I have seen for the 360-day prophetic year are 1) your own attestation and 2) a few cross-referenced bible verses, like when the 5-month period of Noah's flood is described as 150 days. This is not at all impressive to me. A specific 360-day year is never explicitly mentioned, and it seems much more likely, especially given the quirks of the Jewish lunar calendar, that they were simply using round numbers. It certainly wouldn't be in the only place in the Bible in which numbers have been rounded, or otherwise interpreted liberally. And if the 360-day prophetic year was used elsewhere in the bible, we are lead to absurd conclusions concerning other prophecies (like that Jesus' Millennial reign would be only 986 years).Also, the math is incorrect. Before 1582 the Julian style calendar was used, where every year was exactly 365-1/4 days (rather than the slightly smaller 365.2422). This is small, but by the time it was reformed the difference was enough to desync the calendar by 11 days. You used the Julian dates of 476 BC and 33 AD, but then used the Gregorian system of 365.242 to multiply. You should have used exactly 365-1/4.But lastly and most importantly, the seventieth week never happened. The Roman "people of the prince who is to come" should have oppressed the Jews and destroyed Jerusalem in 2520 days from 33-40 AD, and then Jesus should have come to rule on Earth, according to the prophecy. But that never occurred. You could argue that the seventieth week was postponed by God because the Jews crucified him...but that explanation implicitly makes the prophecy incorrect. You cannot say that the prophecy was true, and then say that it was only false because the Jews did X or Y. It is simply false.And the book of Daniel is absolutely littered with unfulfilled prophecies such as these. Daniel 10-12 claims that Antiochus Epiphanes was to conquer Egypt again, unopposed by Rome, set up his palace in Palestine, and then be miraculously destroyed along with his empire by the Archangel Michael, culminating with the resurrection of the dead. In reality, Antiochus fell ill and died while he was looting the treasures of Persian territories.Daniel's "prophecies" are only accurate up to the beginning of the Maccabean revolt and the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem in 167 BC - which is, not at all coincidentially, when the book was written. His predictions of the invasion of Antiochus, his supernatural slaying, the resurrection of the dead, and the impending Messianic age were all completely false. Why would this be? If this was actually the inspired work of God, and its author was gifted with prophetic abilities, then why would he not be able to accurately predict anything past the point at which he was writing?This is why I don't pay much heed to the prophecies of Daniel.