Were you able to talk to Daniel yourself or are you presuming things from something you learn from someone else, or someone else's material along the line. Never the less how you learned that isn't really that important, the case can be made that a writer in the Bible can use several types of figures of speech, and figures of thought, I'm not the one to argue the text but I do know that the old Testament writers wrote differently then we do today and probably thought a little bit differently too, but never the less I do believe that God has preserve the message over the years even in what you might call a bad translation or even what I might call a bad translation but we need to keep in mind that all translation are still a work of man some may be more Godly then others, but still if God wanted to use non Christians to give us a better translation then so be it. God could use Catholics to do that. Ok I've got way off on a tangent now, I'll try to get back to Daniel, I kind of believe that God use a lot of prophecy through his prophets to give us a physical picture of things that happen during their life time or many generations after their life time. Never the less I believe that the physical picture we are left with for that prophecy that might be fulfilled historically is for us to get an physical idea of a greater sphere or world that we can not really see, and that is the spiritual world. The Premills like to see most every thing as future with world events that they can make movies and write books about, the postmills like to see most prophecy as being fulfilled during the first century or so in the world events back then and they have there books too but not as many and the amills are kind of like the postmills, they will recognize the world events of the postmills, but they also won't make a big deal about them, and in most cases won't even bring them up. But they do talk alot about spiritual warfare that has already taken place and is taking place in each Christians life, and that is where they thing the message of most prophecy is about. I wouldn't totally write off the postmills or amills but try to understand them more, I thing you're like many Christians they just pass along the most popular understanding of what ever theology is being talked about for that generation. That happens a lot here on FR whether your right, I'm right or john doe is right. the odds are that most of the views on FR are going to be the views that are in the majority views, Fortunately, our generation, you and me, can go to the Internet and test those theologies of ours out on others, we can also kill incredible amount of time doing that to, having just said that this thread is getting old, I've had a long day, and I'm going to bed soon. I which I had more time to spend on FR on the Calvinist threads, but hey thats life, I don't get paid for it. Well like I said I'm tired, take care and God bless.
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“Were you able to talk to Daniel yourself or are you presuming things from something you learn from someone else, or someone else’s material along the line.
Never the less how you learned that isn’t really that important, the case can be made that a writer in the Bible can use several types of figures of speech, and figures of thought,
I’m not the one to argue the text but I do know that the old Testament writers wrote differently then we do today and probably thought a little bit differently too, but never the less I do believe that God has preserve the message over the years even in what you might call a bad translation or even what I might call a bad translation but we need to keep in mind that all translation are still a work of man some may be more Godly then others,
but still if God wanted to use non Christians to give us a better translation then so be it. God could use Catholics to do that. Ok I’ve got way off on a tangent now, I’ll try to get back to Daniel, I kind of believe that God use a lot of prophecy through his prophets to give us a physical picture of things that happen during their life time or many generations after their life time.
Never the less I believe that the physical picture we are left with for that prophecy that might be fulfilled historically is for us to get an physical idea of a greater sphere or world that we can not really see, and that is the spiritual world.
The Premills like to see most every thing as future with world events that they can make movies and write books about, the postmills like to see most prophecy as being fulfilled during the first century or so in the world events back then and they have there books too but not as many and the amills are kind of like the postmills, they will recognize the world events of the postmills,
but they also won’t make a big deal about them, and in most cases won’t even bring them up. But they do talk alot about spiritual warfare that has already taken place and is taking place in each Christians life, and that is where they thing the message of most prophecy is about. I wouldn’t totally write off the postmills or amills but try to understand them more,
I thing you’re like many Christians they just pass along the most popular understanding of what ever theology is being talked about for that generation. That happens a lot here on FR whether your right, I’m right or john doe is right. the odds are that most of the views on FR are going to be the views that are in the majority views,
Fortunately, our generation, you and me, can go to the Internet and test those theologies of ours out on others, we can also kill incredible amount of time doing that to, having just said that this thread is getting old, I’ve had a long day, and I’m going to bed soon. I which I had more time to spend on FR on the Calvinist threads, but hey thats life, I don’t get paid for it. Well like I said I’m tired, take care and God bless. “