Sassy,
What of, we look at the above another way. How many cities are in the world? Yet someone names one city to fall and it does...what is the probabilities of that happening.
[4] But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
A few years ago Derren Brown wrote to someone to predict the winner of a horse race the following weekend. Sure enough, the horse won. Then he did it again, and the next horse won too. Then he did it again and again and again, each time apparently predicting correctly the winner. Eventually the person receiving the letters was persuaded that DB knew what he was doing, and so was about to bet a large amount of money on the next "prophecy" – only to find that the next horse lost.
So what happened? What DB actually did was to write to hundreds of people predicting different winners of the first race. The following week he wrote again, but only to the winners from the previous week. He did this over and over again until there was only one person left who thought DB could predict the winners.
Do you see the point here? If you seriously think the fall of Babylon was predicted in the Bible not only do you have to find a quote that names that city specifically and tells us when it would fall, but also you have to eliminate all the other prophecies that didn’t come good to be sure that the Babylon one wasn’t right just as a matter of dumb luck.
Good luck with it though.
How much has travel and knowledge increased since the writing of the book of Daniel? No universities or schools so where did the increase of knowledge come from and travel.
you can read the bible and you can have the same knowledge as I have found. You think that knowledge has not increased?
Of course knowledge has expanded. That’s what happens when people find stuff out and talk about it. As prophecies go, that's up there with “and lo, it will get dark at night time”.
Whether we believe in God, or not. We have to study the words of God to know what to expect and to discuss the ultimate truth in knowledge.
This makes no sense. If I don’t believe in god, what makes you think I’ll take seriously your claim that we “have to study the words of God”?
