arnoldo

Here is a quote from Hatcher on your other "father/son" issue.
Source: Who Was Belshazzar's Daddy?by Farrell Till

Sheshonq

But unfortunately, we've seen that Hatcher is a liar and not to be trusted. He twisted sources and created strawmen in the discussion about gold; he will do the same here. Right out of the starting gate, Hatcher identifies Colless as a "critic", when in reality he is an apologist.

http://theskepticalreview.net/TSRmag/012more.html

I sent e-mails to some of Hatcher's other sources, but Dr. Brian Colless in New Zealand was the only one who answered. I wrote to ask if he was a biblical inerrantist, and he said that he was. If he holds to the inerrancy view, we shouldn't be surprised that he would resort to his very weak attempt to prove that Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Great were the same person. When one has a religious belief to defend, he won't be bashful about resorting to far-fetched arguments.

Colless is not a critic. Moreover, Colless -- as an inerrantist -- is unqualified to do this research, since he has admitted that he cannot be objective. Hatcher is either lying again, or he was too stupid, uninformed, and lazy to do his own research.

Sound familiar?

Come back when you have an actual historian, not another biased source that ignores the hard questions.

Leelee

I heard that Daniel 11:36-45 is not a failed prophecy and there is a change in subject--it is not still referring to Antiochus IV. Supposedly, it cannot be about Antiochus because v 37 says that this king would have no regard for the gods of his fathers, which was not true of Antiochus.

spin

This is not correct. See this post.


spin