Posted on 12/12/2004 3:07:51 AM PST by The Loan Arranger
For a lot of people, the Bible and mathematics are dry subjects, but not for Edwin Sherman – he believes he's found how the two fit together.
Sherman, founder of the Isaac Newton Bible Code Research Society and a professional mathematician, is convinced that the Hebrew Bible contains coded messages that are evidence of God's authorship of the Bible. His book, "Bible Code Bombshell: Compelling Scientific Evidence that God Authored the Bible," describes numerous examples of encoded phrases and sentences that are both lengthy and relevant to the text where they were found.
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In any event, why would you want concrete proof for the existance of God? Wouldn't that totally invalidate the concept of faith?
Note the number 42. 42 months in Jesus' ministry, 42 sojourns in the desert, (Numbers 33), 42 children eaten by the bears when they told Elisha to "go up!" Great stuff!
Unless God manifests himself here on Earth in a very real and tangible way you'll never really "prove" His existance. Even then you'd have people claiming mass hysteria or something. If you have faith that ought to be good enough, God doesn't require anymore proof than the fact we are here.
If God were to put "proof" of his existance in the Bible, then why not give something unequivical such as "The Sun is a Star", or "E=MC[squared]"?Or: "Don't let your faith be shaken by what you find in the fossil record."
Without predictions of modern scientific developments (especially the one that shakes faiths), we're left with "he said, she said".
Everyone with even the slightest education knows that 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.
It certainly has deep meaning in the bible
More Bible code baloney. Nothing new, the occult has been dabbling with numerology and gematria (Kabbalah) for hundreds of years. The only difference is now they have computers.
Kabbalist mystics claim the words we read in our bibles are only for the stupid, these elites, however, claim to know what these words REALLY mean. Each letter is equivalent to a number, hence when Moses gave the Torah, it was for the elite among them, the Kabbalists, to decipher the code. An esoteric science.
The Torah doesn't mean what it appears to mean on the surface, with numerology the words of the Torah can be made to mean anything - anything the numeric "experts" want it to mean. Its all in the eye of the beholder.
Not me, I choose to believe Moses was not writing some sort of esoteric code. The word of God means what it appears to mean.
One doesn't need mystic numerology to prove God, millions of ordinary people through the centuries have come to faith by taking the words of the bible at face value. The Apostle Paul often quoted from the Torah in the New Testament, nowhere does he try to prove the existence of God, or prove any point by telling us, "Now if you will use numerics on this quotation you will find out the true meaning."
I wonder if Minister Louis Farahkhan was his assistant?
It'd probably be something more along the lines of: "Evolution is obviously real, you morons, and I planned it that way!"
"WHAT DOYOUGET WHEN YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?"
"Or: "Don't let your faith be shaken by what you find in the fossil record."
Without predictions of modern scientific developments (especially the one that shakes faiths), we're left with "he said, she said"."
Just like the HEavenly Father said to Job
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou ME.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou has understanding.
OH sorry guess the Heavenly Father is waiting for 'predictions of modern scientific developments'.
It's easier in Hebrew because the vowels aren't written out; allows a lot more fortuitous combinations.
Great way to sell books; not much use otherwise, IMAO.
It'd probably be something more along the lines of: "Evolution is obviously real, you morons, and I planned it that way!"Which would be, itself, a somewhat contradictory message unless it was the preface to a larger essay on "Why I used evolution".
PS: In my opinion, you should drop the "moron" stuff.
Heb 8:5
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Heb 10:1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year * * continually * * make the comers thereunto perfect.
He did. Your mistake is to presume beforehand you would recognize that proof.
Why would the greatest being in existence bother to play obscure number games which only appear in Hebrew?
It isn't just in Hebrew. Like the narrative itself, the proofs are multi-faceted and of varying character. Dismissing the idea of embedded proofs is as foolish as calling chinese script "scribbles" because you can't read it.
In any event, why would you want concrete proof for the existance of God?
To validate the message. The existence of G-d is already assumed.
Wouldn't that totally invalidate the concept of faith?
No, because you would have to have faith to believe there is a riddle there worth attempting to solve.
6 X 9 = 54
7 X 6 = 42
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