Jeffro
Following is the list of assumptions I accept for my interpretations of Daniel:
- Books that accurately describe details of past events were written after those events
- Daniel includes information that accurately describe events during the Seleucid period
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My assumptions are:
1. Books that accurately describe past events are history were written after those events, those written before those events would be prophecy.
2,. Daniel includes information that accurately describes events during the Babylonian Period from 617 BCE right up to the Roman World Power and beyond to the modern-day-'time of the end' from 1914 CE.
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Following is the list of assumptions 'scholar' accepts for his interpretations of Daniel:
- The universe had a cause
- The universe was caused by a conscious entity
- The entity was a deity
- The deity still exists (or at least continued to exist until the Neo-Babylonian period)
- The deity has some interest in the universe
- The deity has some interest in humans
- The deity interacts in some way with humans
- The deity is the God of the Abrahamic religions
- God imparts prophecies
- The book of Daniel contains prophecies imparted by God about future kingdoms (after the time of writing)
- Jehovah’s Witnesses’ interpretations of Daniel are correct, except where their own previous interpretations have been discarded, which were also correct until they weren't
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The unnamed deity has a name and His name is Jehovah.
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Once 'scholar' provides definitive proof (not fallacious appeals to tradition, incredulity or sentiment) for his list, I'll clear up any contested assumptions in my list. 🤣 For the sake of argument, I might be willing to grant point 1 in the list for 'scholar' even without definitive proof.
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So can I conclude that you are an atheist?
You seem to be stalling, unable to provide reasons or facts for your claim that Daniel was a 2nd century composition and not of the 6th century BCE.
scholar JW
