Critical Faith - Daniel 11

The central message of this sermon is that the critical faith, which seeks to explain the Bible as a product of natural processes and human invention, is self-contradictory and relies on assumptions that must be maintained at all costs. The speaker argues that if one allows for prophecy in Daniel 11, it would undermine the entire critical worldview, which posits that there are no miracles or supernatural events. Instead, critical scholars attempt to explain away the evidence, claiming that Daniel was written as history masquerading as prophecy after the fact, specifically in 164 BC. This position is shown to be tenuous and arbitrary, as it relies on an artificial cut-off point to maintain the illusion of a purely human origin for the Bible. Ultimately, the sermon suggests that the critical faith is driven by a desperate attempt to suppress evidence of supernatural events, which would undermine its own worldview.