Four out of ten Christians (40%) strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil.” An additional two out of ten Christians (19%) said they “agree somewhat” with that perspective.
Most American Christians Do Not Believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit Exist (April 10, 2009 https://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/12-faithspirituality/260-most-american-christians-do-not-believe-that-satan-or-the-holy-spirit-exis#.VSgv7RdzSi5).
Four out of ten Christians (40%) strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil.” An additional two out of ten Christians (19%) said they “agree somewhat” with that perspective.
Most American Christians Do Not Believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit Exist (April 10, 2009 https://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/12-faithspirituality/260-most-american-christians-do-not-believe-that-satan-or-the-holy-spirit-exis#.VSgv7RdzSi5).
We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the power of 17.
Peter Stoner and Robert Newman, Science Speaks: Scientific Proof of the Accuracy of Prophecy and the Bible (Chicago: Moody Press, 1976): http://sciencespeaks.dstoner.net/Christ_of_Prophecy.html.
“Rejoice blessed Daniel! Thou has not been in error ….. ALREADY THE IRON RULES.”
Treatise on Christ and Antichrist,” The Sacred Writings of Saint Hippolytus, http://books.google.ca/books?id=xSDp6bOejVAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I wanted to found a European system, a European code of laws, a European court of appeals: there would have been but one people throughout Europe … Europe would soon have become one nation.
Napoleon, as quoted in Emil Ludwig, Eden and Cedar Paul (trans), Napoleon (London: George Allan & Unwin, 1927): 662. https://archive.org/details/Napoleon_539
“The images of gold, silver, brass that might serve to represent the nations and their kings, were successively broken by the IRON MONARCHY OF ROME.”
Edward Gibbon, The history and Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire volume 3 (London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789): 634. https://books.google.ca/books?id=Hy8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA611&lpg=PA611&dq=%22IRON+MONARCHY+OF+ROME%22i&source=bl&ots=PIeNRlWu1n&sig=L1TTnJ8mBjhU1MzsnZjEn6nDBmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ahYwVfozgeGgBInzgIgC&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
“Rejoice blessed Daniel! Thou has not been in error ….. ALREADY THE IRON RULES.”
Treatise on Christ and Antichrist,” The Sacred Writings of Saint Hippolytus, http://books.google.ca/books?id=xSDp6bOejVAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I wanted to found a European system, a European code of laws, a European court of appeals: there would have been but one people throughout Europe … Europe would soon have become one nation.
Napoleon, as quoted in Emil Ludwig, Eden and Cedar Paul (trans), Napoleon (London: George Allan & Unwin, 1927): 662. https://archive.org/details/Napoleon_539
On the eve of the Passover Yeshu was hanged.
Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin, Folio 43a; http://www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_43.html
They [the Romans] seized indiscriminately all provinces and kingdoms, and extended their empire over all nations; in a word, they prescribed no other limits to their vast projects, than those which deserts and seas made it impossible to pass.”
Charles Rollin, The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volume 5 (Longman and co., J.M. Richardson, 1850): 435.] https://books.google.ca/books?id=u7gOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA435&lpg=PA435&dq=%22seized+indiscriminately+all+provinces+and+kingdoms%22&source=bl&ots=-QbLQFKZPL&sig=hqfXZlvPqRHMuvWgYKO63FYyW3E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RhcwVbOHJ8-xogShvoDYCw&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
“On June 22, 168BC at the Battle of Pydna, Perseus, king of Macedonia, was completely crushed by the armies of Rome, and on this day ‘perished the empire of Alexander the Great - one hundred and forty-four years after his death.”
Arthur Stanley Maxwell, Your Bible and You (Review and Herald, 1991): 223. https://books.google.ca/books?id=w1pRx3KodKUC&pg=PA223&dq=%22Battle+of+Pydna,+Perseus,+king+of+Macedonia,+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4hYwVZTII4uuogTX54HoAg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
What was the principal adversary of this tremendous power? By whom was it checked, and resisted, and put down? By none, and by nothing, but the direct and manifest interposition of God.”
“The deliverance of Europe from the dominion of Napoleon was affected neither by Russia, nor by Germany, nor by England, but by the hand of God alone”
Thomas Arnold, Introductory Lectures on Modern History (D. Appleton, 1870): 161 https://archive.org/stream/introductorylec04arnogoog#page/n165/mode/2up
“Rejoice blessed Daniel! Thou has not been in error ….. ALREADY THE IRON RULES.”
Treatise on Christ and Antichrist,” The Sacred Writings of Saint Hippolytus, http://books.google.ca/books?id=xSDp6bOejVAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
What was the principal adversary of this tremendous power? By whom was it checked, and resisted, and put down? By none, and by nothing, but the direct and manifest interposition of God.”
“The deliverance of Europe from the dominion of Napoleon was affected neither by Russia, nor by Germany, nor by England, but by the hand of God alone”
Thomas Arnold, Introductory Lectures on Modern History (D. Appleton, 1870): 161 https://archive.org/stream/introductorylec04arnogoog#page/n165/mode/2up
“Christus from whom the name was derived was executed at the hands of the procurator, Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.”
Tacitus, A, 15.44, as quoted in Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. (Arrowhead Springs: Campus Crusade for Christ, 1972): 55
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome ”
Suetonius, Life of Claudius: 25.4, as quoted in Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. (Arrowhead Springs: Campus Crusade for Christ, 1972): 55
“The author gives evidence of having a more accurate knowledge of Neo-Babylonian and early Archaemenid Persian history than any known historian since the 6th century BC.”
“Daniel, Book of,” The New Bible Dictionary (1982): 263. Asquoted in Christ and Antichrist in Prophecy and History by Edwin de Kock: 23