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vision of the ram and goat in Daniel 8 focus on the Medo-Persian and Greek empires, with theram representing the Medo-Persian and the flying goat representing Alexander the Great. As forthe writing on the wall whereby God announced the destruction of the Babylonian Empire andDaniel being thrown in the lion’s den for praying to God instead of to the emperor, what isobscure or nightmarish about that?Another example is how that atheists mock the doctrine of the Trinity. In his book The GodDelusion, Richard Dawkins mocks the Trinity as impossible to understand.But it is foolish to mock something just because it might not make sense to my fallible humanmind. The atheist can’t tell us how life came from non-life or even how the butterfly’s life cyclehappened. But he will stand in judgment on the Trinitarian God and pretend that he knows forsure that such a God does not exist because he finds such a God unthinkable. Amazing andridiculous audacity. Far from being evidence that the Trinity is a man-made doctrine, I considerthe fact that the doctrine is difficult to understand evidence that it is divine revelation. If I weregoing to make up a doctrine of God to foist on men, I wouldn’t make up something that makesno sense to the human mind.It should also be noted that the doctrine of the Trinity is often misstated. For example, the 18thcenturyinfidel Thomas Paine called it “the notion of the Trinity of Gods,” which is not theBible’s teaching. The Trinity is not three Gods but one God revealed in three Persons.The atheist misunderstands and misuses the Bible.The skeptic never looks more ridiculous than when he tries to be a Bible critic.Skeptics say, for example, that there are two contradictory accounts of creation in Genesis 1-2,whereas these are actually two complimentary accounts. (See the book Things Hard to BeUnderstood.)Skeptics say that God forbad all art in the second commandment (Exodus 20:4). Robert Ingersollsaid that the Bible “is the enemy of Art. ‘Thou shalt make no graven image.’ This was the deathof Art” (About the Holy Bible). Actually, God’s law forbad idolatrous art only. Exodus 20:4 mustbe interpreted in the context of the previous verse, which says, “Thou shalt have no other godsbefore me.” The Jewish Tabernacle and Temple were filled with artistry, such as the beautifulgolden candlestick, the golden incense altar, golden bells and engraved headbands, images ofpalms, pomegranates and cherubim. Arts actually flourished in Israel. David was a peerless poetand musician. Solomon beautified Jerusalem and built glorious palaces in many places.Skeptics say that the Jews could not have built the Tabernacle in the wilderness. Ingersoll asked,“How, in the desert of Sinai, did the Jews obtain curtains of fine linen? How did theseabsconding slaves make cherubs of gold? Where did they get the skins of badgers, and how didthey dye them red? How did they make wreathed chains and spoons, basins and tongs? Where359