Posted on 07/08/2012 6:38:50 AM PDT by pastorbillrandles
Thanks again Cronos. Remember that the prophecy in Numbers was a telling about what “this people” shall do “In the latter days”. Ezekiel 35, Psalm 83 and Obadiah have a future element to be fulfilled.
1)The Books of the Maccabees are not canonical scripture and were not written under the influence of Ruach HaQodesh. The Scriptural canon had already been closed by the 'Anshei-HaKenesset HaGedolah.
2)The Books of the Maccabees are part of the chrstian "old testament," and as all good chrstians know are not to be interpreted literally. They are poetic fugues of a primitive people who thought the earth was flat and that it was alright to kill Canaanites. Is this not so?
The Babylonians had already destroyed the first temple. Daniel 9 is a prediction of the second destruction, by the Romans (fulfilled in 70Ad)but ironically though sepaerate by 600 years they occurred on the same calender day, Tish ba aav(The ninth of AV)
How do you know it's historical? How do you know it wasn't influenced by the political situation and the biases of the author?
I'm confused. I thought there was no history in "the old testament." Is it historical or is it not historical? Is it the historicity of only the first eleven chapters of Genesis that you object to?
Is it the historicity of only the first eleven chapters of Genesis that you object to? -- if you object to the historicity of the first 11 chapters of Genesis, then keep doing so.
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