Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 
Posted on 08/05/2006 12:35:23 PM PDT by blam
Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
It is interesting to note that in the past people stamped this passage and all of the Book of Daniel as mere myth-telling because Historians didn’t believe there was such a king as Belshazzar who ever reigned in Babylon. But in 1854, a member of the British Consul was exploring ancient ruins in southern Iraq and dug into a great tower built there. He found a time capsule: clay cylinders inscribed with cuneiform writing; the cylinders were inscribed at the time of Nabonidus, king of Babylon from 555-539 B.C., and commemorated repairs the king made to the tower; they included a prayer for long life of Nabonidus and his oldest son, Belshazzar.
Nabonides is considered the last great king of Babylon. His relationship with the previous Kings of Babylon is unclear, perhaps he was once a great general, but he came to the throne by overthrowing a young king named Labashi-Marduk. It is likely Nabonides substantiated his claim to the throne by marrying Nitocris, a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, since he was not a blood relative to Nebuchadnezzar.
Being a religious eccentric, in 549 BC Nabonides left Babylon to live at Teyma (Tema) located in what is now Saudi Arabia northeast of Hijaz, where the ancient trade route between Medina and Dumah crosses the Nefud desert. Tayma is approximately 400 kilometers north of Medina. While on religious sojourn Nabonides left his son behind to rule in Babylon, but Belshazzar never fully came to the throne.
Skeptics believed that the writer of Daniel made an historical error in calling Belshazzar king, but when Belshazzar told Daniel that if he could interpret the writing on the wall he (Daniel) would be granted authority in the kingdom as the third ruler, the scriptures show a detail which lends credence to the account. Belshazzar was not the first ruler of the kingdom, but he was in a secondary position, appointed to reign in Babylon while his father was away. By Babylonian tradition, all in the city with the secondary ruler would call him king.
Belshazzar offered to Daniel third position, so the writer of the Book faithfully related the fact as a minor detail, and then much later archaeological evidence substantiated the trivia.
These findings in archaeology show that the writer of the Book of Daniel was telling of a real man. These were no fables.
Thank you so much for that fascinating excerpt!
Bible ping.
People trying to 'debunk' King David.
Hmmmmmm. Let's see- who should I believe as to the truth of the Word of God? God or man, God or man, God or man, God or man, God or man.
What a joke and what puny, irrevelant fools are those who actually embark on a serious attempt to "disprove" Scripture.
Psalm 2:4:
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. What a frightening thing it is to be laughed at by God!
It never, ever, ceases to amaze me that, instead of seeking God and joyfully accepting His gift of eternal life and a personal relationship with Him, fallen mankind spends his short years here on earth at war with Him, obsessed with "proving" that He doesn't exist, and, in the end, losing the war with God and spending all eternity in desolation and alone.
I just don't get it.
Thanks. I can't get enough.
"Man is DOOMED to Learn"
What a tagline!
Thanks for the new source material.
Excellent!
What a tagline!
LOL! Could be I guess.
I believe what my husband meant by the statement (putting it in context of our conversation) was that Man will some day, thru his own technology..become "Too big for his own britches".
If knowledge is not used properly..we have atheism , liberalism, socialism..all those "isms".
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