deuteronomist
Puritan Board Freshman
I was listening to Gary Demar on the canon press app. He uses the same "it was worse before" argument.
Daniel wasn't in a worse situation than we are. Things aren't so deadly (for now) but Babylon was largely disinterested in the Jews and thus made no effort to expunge their religion. Babylon didn't burn their books, and didn't abduct their children to brainwash them in the ways of Babylon.
Babylon didn't have nuclear warheads, didn't have algorithms which can suppress the truth, and didn't exist in a world where there is NO ESCAPE no matter where you go.
We live in that world that Daniel didn't. the Turks invading Europe wasn't as bad as this, roman persecution wasn't as bad as our situation. No one is taking everything that has changed to it's logical conclusions.
Telling me that God has delivered us before provides no comfort, because the delivery we have been granted has not lasted in any meaningful way since the fall of the roman empire. There is absolutely no period in history comparable to now. People are unwilling to admit what is going on is bigger, more powerful, and unstoppable by any means OTHER than divine intervention.
God seems to have provided no discernable divine intervention as Christians were slowly burned out of existence in the middle east.
Babylon couldn't remotely sniff you out based on who you email or what you say even privately. Babylon couldn't cut off your bank account, take away all of your money, and in fact, couldn't wipe out everyone's savings worldwide overnight. That would be very easy to do, overnight today.
Big tech and alphabet agencies can, and easily purge us out of existence, one way or another.
traditional wisdom does not provide comfort because it literally doesn't apply anymore.
Please don't ban me for this post. I DO believe. But I'm increasingly under assault by the realization of the reality we now live in. I'm asking here because PB because I can think of no better place to go. There's plenty of useless 'Christian' forums which don't have a very good grounding.
Daniel wasn't in a worse situation than we are. Things aren't so deadly (for now) but Babylon was largely disinterested in the Jews and thus made no effort to expunge their religion. Babylon didn't burn their books, and didn't abduct their children to brainwash them in the ways of Babylon.
Babylon didn't have nuclear warheads, didn't have algorithms which can suppress the truth, and didn't exist in a world where there is NO ESCAPE no matter where you go.
We live in that world that Daniel didn't. the Turks invading Europe wasn't as bad as this, roman persecution wasn't as bad as our situation. No one is taking everything that has changed to it's logical conclusions.
Telling me that God has delivered us before provides no comfort, because the delivery we have been granted has not lasted in any meaningful way since the fall of the roman empire. There is absolutely no period in history comparable to now. People are unwilling to admit what is going on is bigger, more powerful, and unstoppable by any means OTHER than divine intervention.
God seems to have provided no discernable divine intervention as Christians were slowly burned out of existence in the middle east.
Babylon couldn't remotely sniff you out based on who you email or what you say even privately. Babylon couldn't cut off your bank account, take away all of your money, and in fact, couldn't wipe out everyone's savings worldwide overnight. That would be very easy to do, overnight today.
Big tech and alphabet agencies can, and easily purge us out of existence, one way or another.
traditional wisdom does not provide comfort because it literally doesn't apply anymore.
Please don't ban me for this post. I DO believe. But I'm increasingly under assault by the realization of the reality we now live in. I'm asking here because PB because I can think of no better place to go. There's plenty of useless 'Christian' forums which don't have a very good grounding.