CHAPTER 1
At Home in Jerusalem
Issues Daniel Faced:
- Will God save us?
- Trust God no matter what?
- Cultural relativity: Should morality be adjusted to fit modern, post-Josiah Jerusalem?
- Moral relativity as it relates to the siege
- Truth: Who is speaking it?
- Correlations between material problems and spiritual causes
- Take action? In what specific way?
- Obey God rather than man?
- Speak out and draw trouble, or keep quiet?
- Does the end justify the means?
- Spiritual values versus physical needs
CHAPTER 2
Captivity Begins
Issues Daniel Faced:
- Really bad things can happen to good people.
- Evil people can indeed prosper and maintain the upper hand.
- There is no justice!
- Where is God when you need Him?
- Can no one be trusted?
- Watch what people do, not what they say.
- Most do what is expedient, not necessarily what is right.
- When things get really bad, one can more easily observe those who have true spiritual values.
- Should one repay evil for evil?
- Those whose lives are ruled by spiritual values change little in times of crisis.
- Life goes on when loved ones (all of them) are lost.
CHAPTER 3
The Road to Babylon
Issues Daniel Faced:
- Risking one’s own security by sticking up for a friend
- Idle time: He made use of it and learned Chaldean.
CHAPTER 4
Arriving in Babylon
Issues Daniel Faced:
- Where to draw the line on personal moral issues
- From where to draw one’s sense of identity
- How to get around authority without directly confronting it for the second time (went to an underling with the idea of the ten-day trial)
- How to honor God without being too legalistic
- How to handle people who are jealous of you
- What to put into one’s body
- What to put into one’s mind
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