What is Daniel's view of human beings in the Book of Daniel?
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He sees people as being subject to the decrees of God. As God wills, events happen. God declared through his prophets what would happen in Daniel's time and as Daniel sees the time foretold for the release of his people from captivity approaching, he is given visions of what will happen in the future. He doesn't understand that these visions are of the far distant future and fears that they are indicating that his people will not be released and return to their homeland at the appointed time because of their sins. So he fasts, prays and struggles with God. He stays faithful to God through various trials and at the end is reassured.
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The account of the creation tells us that man is composed of three parts. God first formed the body from the dust of the earth, after which He breathed into it “the breath of life.” He caused His own life, His Spirit, to enter into it. By this union of Spirit with matter, the man became a “living soul.” The soul, which is essentially the man, finds its place between the body and the spirit; it is the link, which binds them together. By the body, the soul finds itself in relation n to the external world; by the spirit, with the world invisible and with God. By means of the soul, the spirit can subject the body to the action of the heavenly powers and thus spiritualize it; by means of the soul, the body also can act upon the spirit and attract it earthwards. The soul, subject to the solicitations of both spirit and body, is in a position to choose between the voice of God, speaking by the Spirit, or the voice of the world, speaking through the senses.
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Daniel had read the Prophet Jeremiah in Daniel 9:1-2 and that told him that the exile would only last 70 years.\n\nEsther, let me see...\n\nMaybe in Chapter 8:11 where the Jews were granted the right to defend themselves?
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We would be well to let the Bible interpret itself, and gather all verses on a subject. I would like to encourage everyone to do this.\n\nHere are a few to take a look at:\n\nDaniel 1:8- Daniel refuses wine because he has purposed not to defile himself. I doubt this was new wine, as the fresh juice of the grape does not defile.\n\nIsa. 5:11- Woe to those who drink intoxicating drinks.\nProverbs 23:29-30-More woe...\n\nAlcohol has lead to alot of shame in the Bible. Noah naked (Gen. 9:21), Lot sexually active with his own daughters (Gen. 19:33), The Golden Calf (Ex. 32:6, 25), Amnon rapes his half-sister (2 Sam. 13:28)\n\nWhen you take an honest look at the Biblical record of fermented drink, it is apaulling to think how Christians would try to endorce alcohol as righteous even in moderation!\n\nThe win, grape juice, represented Christ's Blood, and the bread his Body. Just as the bread was "unleavened", leaven representing sin, his blood ought to be considered pure, free from fermentation.\n\nThe Bible is clear on this point, for more info please read:
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I believe that human beings wrote the bible and since they are fallable and capable of everything from blind opinionism to predudice to ourright cruelty and disregard for others, there may be some messed up untrue things in the bible.  I think that Jesus was an amazing being but the desciples that wrote the new testement were just normal human beings for bad or good depending on their personalities and quirks.  I'm not so sure there is such a thing as "the devil".
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The Bible says "we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against Principalities and Powers (demonic realm) of this dark world". This struggle is through prayer (example is Daniel praying and the angels fighting off the demonic power over the country of Persia..... Old Testament book of Daniel)
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Micheal - Daniel 10:13,21;12:1 ; Jude 9 ; Revelation 12:7\nGabriel - Daniel 8:16;9:21 ; Luke 1:19,26\n\nLucifer is not an angel - but a cherub who is Satan (Isaiah 14:12 KJV ; Ezekiel 28:14)
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This is from Matthew Henry's Commmentary: \n\nPro 30:24-28 - \nI. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four things that are little and yet are very admirable, great in miniature, in which, as bishop Patrick observes, he teaches us several good lessons; as, 1. Not to admire bodily bulk, or beauty, or strength, nor to value persons or think the better of them for such advantages, but to judge of men by their wisdom and conduct, their industry and application to business, which are characters that deserve respect. 2. To admire the wisdom and power of the Creator in the smallest and most despicable animals, in an ant as much as in an elephant. 3. To blame ourselves who do not act so much for our own true interest as the meanest creatures do for theirs. 4. Not to despise the weak things of the world; there are those that are little upon the earth, poor in the world and of small account, and yet are exceedingly wise, wise for their souls and another world, and those are exceedingly wise, wiser than their neighbours. Margin, They are wise, made wise by the special instinct of nature. All that are wise to salvation are made wise by the grace of God.\nII. Those he specifies are, 1. The ants, minute animals and very weak, and yet they are very industrious in gathering proper food, and have a strange sagacity to do it in the summer, the proper time. This is so great a piece of wisdom that we may learn of them to be wise for futurity, Pro_6:6. When the ravening lions lack, and suffer hunger, the laborious ants have plenty, and know no want. 2. The conies, or, as some rather understand it, the Arabian mice, field mice, weak creatures, and very timorous, yet they have so much wisdom as to make their houses in the rocks, where they are well guarded, and their feebleness makes them take shelter in those natural fastnesses and fortifications. Sense of our own indigence and weakness should drive us to him that is a rock higher than we for shelter and support; there let us make our habitation. 3. The locusts; they are little also, and have no king, as the bees have, but they go forth all of them by bands, like an army in battle-array; and, observing such good order among themselves, it is not any inconvenience to them that they have no king. They are called God's great army (Joe_2:25); for, when he pleases, he musters, he marshals them, and wages war by them, as he did upon Egypt. They go forth all of them gathered together (so the margin); sense of weakness should engage us to keep together, that we may strengthen the hands of one another. 4. The spider, an insect, but as great an instance of industry in our houses as the ants are in the field. Spiders are very ingenious in weaving their webs with a fineness and exactness such as no art can pretend to come near: They take hold with their hands, and spin a fine thread out of their own bowels, with a great deal of art; and they are not only in poor men's cottages, but in kings' palaces, notwithstanding all the care that is there taken to destroy them. Providence wonderfully keeps up those kinds of creatures, not only which men provide not for, but which every man's hand is against and seeks the destruction of. Those that will mind their business, and take hold of it with their hands, shall be in kings' palaces; sooner or later, they will get preferment, and may go on with it, notwithstanding the difficulties and discouragements they meet with. If one well-spun web be swept away, it is but making another.\n\n\nAnd this is a commentary from my Bible:\n30:24-28   Ants...rock badgers...locusts...spider: The identified characteristics of these creatures summarize the teaching of the entire book.  The ants demonstrate foresight; the rock badgers, security; the locusts, cooperation with others; the spider, usefulness (in eliminating less desirable insects).  The alternate reasing for spider, "lizard" would be
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I think the Bible verse you are referring to was speaking about Lucifer the angel (before he fell from Heaven) and angels have been said to possess physical human beauty.
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The Bible says that God created man in his own image.  You need to use your own judgement on what God is really like.  The Main point of Faith, no matter what your religious denomination is the Golden Rule... "Do unto others as you have them do unto you."  PERIOD  It doesnt take a Pope, Rabbi, Preacher, Preist to know that you should be kind to all creatures.
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“SOUL” AS USED IN THE BIBLE\n\nFirst, consider the soul. You may remember that the Bible was originally written mainly in Hebrew and Greek. When writing about the soul, the Bible writers used the Hebrew word ne'phesh or the Greek word psy·khe'. These two words occur well over 800 times in the Scriptures, and the New World Translation consistently renders them “soul.” When you examine the way “soul” or “souls” is used in the Bible, it becomes evident that this word basically refers to (1) people, (2) animals, or (3) the life that a person or an animal enjoys. Let us consider some scriptures that present these three different senses.\n\nPeople. “In Noah’s days . . . a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water.” (1 Peter 3:20) Here the word “souls” clearly stands for people—Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Exodus 16:16 mentions instructions given to the Israelites regarding the gathering of manna. They were told: “Pick up some of it . . . according to the number of the souls that each of you has in his tent.” So the amount of manna that was gathered was based upon the number of people in each family. Some other Biblical examples of the application of “soul” or “souls” to a person or to people are found at Genesis 46:18; Joshua 11:11; Acts 27:37; and Romans 13:1.\n\nAnimals. In the Bible’s creation account, we read: “God went on to say: ‘Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.’ And God went on to say: ‘Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind.’ And it came to be so.” (Genesis 1:20, 24) In this passage, fish, domestic animals, and wild beasts are all referred to by the same word—“souls.” Birds and other animals are called souls at Genesis 9:10; Leviticus 11:46; and Numbers 31:28.\n\nLife as a person. Sometimes the word “soul” means one’s life as a person. Jehovah told Moses: “All the men who were hunting for your soul are dead.” (Exodus 4:19) What were Moses’ enemies hunting for? They were seeking to take Moses’ life. Earlier, while Rachel was giving birth to her son Benjamin, “her soul was going out (because she died).” (Genesis 35:16-19) At that moment, Rachel lost her life. Consider also Jesus’ words: “I am the fine shepherd; the fine shepherd surrenders his soul in behalf of the sheep.” (John 10:11) Jesus gave his soul, or life, in behalf of mankind. In these Bible passages, the word “soul” clearly refers to life as a person. You will find more examples of this sense of “soul” at 1 Kings 17:17-23; Matthew 10:39; John 15:13; and Acts 20:10.\n\nA further study of God’s Word will show you that nowhere in the entire Bible are the terms “immortal” or “everlasting” linked with the word “soul.” Instead, the Scriptures state that a soul is mortal, meaning that it dies. (Ezekiel 18:4, 20) Therefore, the Bible calls someone who has died simply a “dead soul.”—Leviticus 21:11.
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Gladly.\n\nThe Wild Beast of chapter 13 speaks "blasphemies" and "great things" vs. 6 and 7 tell us.  The prophecy of Daniel 7:7,8 speak very similarly of the fourth beast of his vision.  Therefore, there must be at least some similarities between the two.  In verse 7 of Revelation, it also says that authority was given it to "wage war with the holy ones and conquer them, and authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation."  So this beast would have control over the world and would persecute God's "holy ones".  It also, as verses 16 and 17 bring out, would have the authority to control who can buy or sell things, who would have the power to have business, and the like.  Even so far as to say in verse 15, he could say life or death of a person.  Certainly, this would be symbolic of someone who had earthly control and power.  No doubt this beast would be ruled and controlled by the "ruler of this world" Satan the Devil.  However, these descriptions aptly describe the world's governments as a whole, who have, throughout history, told people what they ought and ought not to do, controlling business and the like, as well as persecute God's people.  Even religious leaders have poked their head into the business of governments and told them what to do and what not to do.  Interestingly, verse three says it got a deathstroke but then came back and got healed.  This happened quite in line with the League of Nations' evolution into the United Nations, as they emerged from a "deathstroke" in WWII.  The Wild Beast, controlling the world, would aptly then fit the World's Nations as they, unknowingly led along by Satan, persecute and rule mankind.
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King David. He did some really horrible things. He was quite frankly pretty much a scoundrel. He committed adultery, murder, coveted, lied, he was pretty rotten. But, he repented and he was genuinely sorry for his mistakes. He suffered for them too. He lost his son. He was a man after God's own heart. He had faith. I love the life example of the apostle Paul, but, he was a religious zealot. His humanity was hard to see. David, he was just a sinner trying to make it in the world. He knew his short comings, he loved the Lord, he forged ahead and he struggled with life. David is much more human to me.
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Actually the Bible says we are allowed to eat meat. \n\nHowever there is a discussion about this in Romans 14. It basically says that eating meat is not bad in of itself, however if a person feels like it is bad, then it is bad for them and we are to respect that.\n\nAlso as for Daniel, he did not eat meat because the meat that was available to him was from animals that had been sacraficed to idols (other gods). (Dan 1:8-15)Daniel didn't want to eat that meat because he felt like it went against God, so he and 3 others asked that they only be given vegetables to eat. The king over them worried that they would not be as healthy if they did not eat meat, but they allowed it. At the end of a period of time, Daniel and those who ate only vegetables became stronger and healthier than those who ate the meat sacraficed to idols. It was asomething God did supernaturally to prove to the people He is God. But that was an isolated event. People today don't usually sacrafice animals to other Gods, but if they did, then yes, it would be wrong to eat that particular meat.
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I think you're reading too much into this. And Daniel is not the same as Revelation - some say the prophecies of Daniel have already been fulfilled by the Persian Empire.\n\nLion: at various points in time, symbolic of several men and families (ie, Medieval heraldry); also of Jamaica, Rastafarianism, several African nations, the Dreyfus Financial Group.\n\nEagle: Symbolic of the U.S. as well as of Germanic states (during its incarnation as the Holy Roman Empire, German Empire, Prussian Empire and Austrian Empire), certain Roman generals, to name a few.\n\nBear: Symbolic of Russia, poor financial markets, Norse tribes, many Native American tribes, Spain (particularly Madrid), and several groups within China.\n\nLeopard: Many nations in Africa (as well as Shamanism in general, where the leopard-skin man is the healer) as well as European powers that colonized those lands.\n\nUnknown Beast: well this could be anything from the Leviathan to the Juggernaut.\n\nI've often thought that symbolism within Scripture must be viewed in context to the original audience (Israel during the Babylonian captivity), since it makes little sense for God to prophesy to peoples living 3 millenia hence but leave everyone in-between mystified. Consider Hebrew culture at the time to be a reference point.
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It's in the book of Daniel. The words were written on a wall by a hand that appeared. Daniel was brought in to interpret the words. It is something about your time being up. The king that saw the words written died that night. I don't recall any more off the top of my head. Daniel is a really interesting book. I would highly recommend reading it.
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"Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons," is the actual quote.  It is taken from Acts 10:34.  The NIV translates this as, "“I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism."  The New American Standard translates this as, "I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality."\n\nThe Apostle Peter is speaking, his full statement is, "“I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right."\n\nThe basic meaning is that God does not favor one person over another but will accept anyone who chooses to receive him.\n\nThe context of the statement is when Peter was at the home of Cornelius, a Roman Centurian, who wanted learn more about the gospel.  Up to that time in the New Testament church, the belief among the bretheren was that only Jews could become followers of Jesus Christ.  God used Peter and Cornelius to show the brethern in Jerusalem that the gospel message was intended for all people, not just the Jews.