Gary: A significant percentage of scholars believe that the Book of Daniel was not written by a Judean prince held captive in Babylon or Persia, as Jews and Christians have long believed, but by someone living in Jerusalem during the second century BCE.
Christian blogger: There have been excellent Old Testament scholars in modern times who believed the exile Daniel wrote the book of Daniel in the 6th c. BCE. Edward Earle Ellis was one. He was research prof. at SW Baptist Seminary Fort Worth. Besides, for those people who are true Christians and therefore believe the New Testament gospels are historically trustworthy, as I do, Jesus made it perfectly clear that he believed this, that Daniel wrote the book of Daniel. As for my qualifications, my works speak for themselves.
Gary: Bingo! Evidence of bias: “for those people who are true Christians and therefore believe the New Testament gospels are historically trustworthy, as I do, Jesus made it perfectly clear that he believed this, that Daniel wrote the book of Daniel.” In other words, since Jesus says in the Gospels that a sixth century Judean prince wrote the Book of Daniel his statement trumps historical evidence which indicates that the Book of Daniel was written in the second century BCE. That is demonstration of a bias. No matter what evidence the experts provide that demonstrates you are wrong, you will refuse to accept it because it challenges your bias that the exile Daniel had to have written this book because Jesus said so.
And if I provide you with evidence that the Gospels were not written by eyewitnesses but by non-eyewitnesses one or more generations removed from the alleged events they describe, therefore calling into question the historical reliability of the Gospels, you would then appeal to Jesus’ fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, such as that in Daniel, as your proof that the majority expert opinion is wrong on the authorship of the Gospels.
Your entire belief system rests on assumptions, circular arguments and biases, Kermit! Admit it: You believe what you believe because of your emotional attachment to your beliefs, not because the evidence supports it.
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