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Qx: ***No way would God have allowed any hint of anything remotely close to being even pointed in the direction of divination to come anywhere close to the Bible Codes. ***
DrS: Thus sayeth Pope Quix.
QX: Perhaps some of you are not aware. I have always wondered by God put the geneologies in Chronicles. Somewhere along in my Bible Code readings, I came upon the reason though it has no direct relationship to the Codes.
Qx: When one takes the root meanings of the names of the patriarchs in the geneologies in Chronicles, IN ORDER, the result is a basic outline, a basic summary of THE GOSPEL STORY.
Qx: Now, following consistently along the attitudes and reasonsings expressed on this thread about the Codes, such folk as express such attitudes and ill-informed conclusions must be LOGICALLY, AND PHILOSOPHICALLY consistent and construe that it was satan who arranged those Patriarchal names that way.
Qx: WHAT NONSENSE! 'Tis Sacred Scripture, group! HOLY SPIRIT BREATHED! PROTECTED THROUGH THE AGES BY HOLY SPIRIT! No other explanation remotely fits. No other explanation is logical. No other explanation is possible. God not only does not play dice with the universe, HE DID NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE WRITING OF HIS HOLY WRITTEN WORD, EITHER. He ordered the placement of every letter. And He did NOT allow satan any part, much less to play dice with the writing of The Holy written Word of God, either.
Anything else would have indicated a very impotent God or a very confused God. Our Almighty God is neither!
DrS: Thus sayeth Pope Quix.
Hardly. Am merely a very mangled whisper of a voice mumbling in the desert.
DrS: BTW, claimming the Holy Spirit is behind the Bible Codes is mighty risky business too.
HOLY SCRIPTURE INDICATES OTHERWISE:
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1 John 4:2
Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
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The Codes clearly do that as they do all the basic doctrines of The Faith.
It could NOT be OTHERWISE--SCRIPTURE IS GOD-BREATHED, HOLY SPIRIT BREATHED. Not only is every word Holy Spirit Breathed, every letter, as well. It should be as no surprise that Holy Spirit lifts up Jesus The Christ at every level, dimension, point of analysis of Holy Scripture whether one considers the straightforward surface text, the root meanings of Patriarchal names or the holographic dimensional meanings just beginning to be discovered and explored in a diversity of TYPES of Codes INHERENTLY EMBEDDED in the Holy Spirit Breathed letter order of the Holy Written Word.
I'll present an analogy that came to mind in a following post.
One may be unaware of the latest scientific comparison of WAR IN PEACE in Hebrew with the Old Testament in Hebrew. One may not have thought through the implications of what it means for Scripture to be God-breathed at every level and aspect. One may not have studied anything very deeply about the Codes.
But one should still have the capacity to be cautious about ascribing to Holy Spirit things of satan--especially when it's clearly, obviously and abundantly NOT TRUE--on the basis of simple logic, among other evidence.
IMAGINE that on Mt Sinai, God gave Moses a holographic 24 inch cube of clear futuristic plastic or gold as clear as glass or some such.
Imagine that the TEN COMMANDMENTS were written in annotated form on the faces of the cube in a way that was easily visible in direct sunlight or in the Holy of Holies.
Imagine that a few microns in from the outer surface, at a particular place in the Holy of Holies, another layer of Holy Text appeared--say some of the favorite Psalms David would write in the future.
And, on down into the cube layer by layer one could read from different positions in the Holy of Holies if one were the Chief Priest at that time of year.
One of the layers close to the center has the essence of the Gospels including the Sermon on The Mount.
And the center most scribed layer--say a cube 3 inches on a side--has the victorious finale that would be written by John The Beloved in Revelation.
And, That the phenomena were multidimensional in a cross-word fashion in that some Scriptures were verticle as it were, with a letter from each layer down into the cube and back up again like verticle Chinese writing--Perhaps Proverbs, say.
Such a cube would be a fair analogy of The Bible Codes. What a fun thing to illustrate God's Timeless perspective, His timeless Glory, His Omniscience, His Majesty! What a joke on the materialstic denyers of the supernatural realm!
Bump!