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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""tents of Shem" implies a school of teaching..."
Yes, and there are some who say that Abraham was "schooled" by Shem. Genealogies do not support the possibility of this, of course; just one reason why genealogies in the Bible are important. It puts things in chronological order, and puts the lie to spurious teachings. Understanding such as yours in explaining "tents of Shem" are also helpful.
The Gravitational force of the Earth upon an object is 19.5 Newtons.
hey- what was charltons number in ben hur when he was a galley slave. I thought it was 42 also-more proof?
Daniel 2:47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
When the testimonies of the two witnesses of the Law and the Prophets are silenced, there will be a "surprise" third witness to come forward. That would be the Kethuvim, which of course, includes the book of Daniel.
While the book of Daniel is generally a record of visions (Daniel being more or less the mystified passive observer), there are certain portions where Daniel himself prophecies. Notably, when he interprets the dreams/visions of the rulers of Babylon.
And that's a good one. After all, here was Daniel, famed for having the inside scoop on the wisdom of God, and was an interpreter of dreams ala Joseph, yet he was confounded at the visions. Now if Daniel was confused, who could understand this stuff?
Daniel 12
8. And I heard, but I did not understand; then I said, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things:
9. And he said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end:
10. Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand:
If the Scripture itself states that certain understanding is hidden until a future date, who is man to say that there is nothing hidden in Scripture? It's not like that's the only example.
That all said, there is so much hocus-pocus in that which is claimed to be "Bible Codes", that the seekers are left with the same responsibility everyone else has - to read the Scripture for themselves to see if what the scholars say is true. Otherwise, how are they going to sort fact from fiction?
How about this?
7 x 6 = 42
4 x 6 = 24
7 - 4 = 3
Well the opening of the article states "...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."
Kinda makes your statement looking more like "an answer looking for a problem to have" in my estimation. Though I've no doubt your statements are applicable to some popular ideas that have been promoted lately, I really don't think they are relevant to the thesis of the book if the openning paragraph is the statement of that thesis.
And in Biblical Area 51 I feel much freer to post my skepticism.
Is not one of the biblical definitions of "foolishness" giving an answer before knowing a matter?
I was listening to the radio the other day while cooking. Another mathemetician was saying that if you assign numerical values to the hebrew letters and convert them to music.
They played a couple of clips and it was quite beautiful.
God is not a politician who leaves behind a body of work to be interpreted by a bunch of lawyersm - a living, breathing Bible, if you will.
Anybody who believes such baloney is pushing blasphemy.
That in itself is a formula, so you prove my point. And I notice you put "formulae" in quotes, its the plural incase you were wondering.
sorry, but my opinion this crap is all to sell books to the gullible. Its meaningless.
God specifically instructed Enoch to write down everything that was going on before the Flood, and make three copies, and then hide all three in different locations, in different types of structures, so the information would be there.
3x9=27 2+7=9
4x9=36 3+6=9
and it works all the way to infinity. But it's the only number that does.
Had the Book of Enoch been included in the original Torah, or Old Testament, chances are we'd be hearing very different Bible stories in Sunday School today.
But how do you explain the presence of beings that were "ancient" in the time of Noah?
The more that is kept hidden, the more people will fail to see the Truth.
That is lucifer's mission on Earth. To keep the Truth of God's Word from man.
"All that is, has been, all that has been, will be once more."
and my personal favorite
"All that is hidden, is made known"
2 Thes 2:9 "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie .."
We either take the Bible literally, or figuratively.
Most of the time, it's pretty apparent when to apply figurative interpretations.
So when the Bible says, "There is nothing new under the sun." I take that literally, as well as the "all that is hidden.." passage, and the "All that is, has been..." passage.
"That in itself is a formula, so you prove my point. And I notice you put "formulae" in quotes, its the plural incase you were wondering.'
Advising me that "formulae" is the plural indicates that you have either aa oddly high opinion of yourself or a low opinion of the sort of person found on FR.
Formulae are not applied to the Bible codes. A simple formula is. The SIMPLEST actually. THAT was one of MY points, but it seems to have managed to clear even that lofty intellect of yours.
Crack a book on the subject. I recommend Drosnins two tomes (That means "book"). You'll learn how simple and compelling the codes are. And you may even develop a feel for what words the avarage sort of jackass freeper might be familiar with.
Hello---we make our points resepctfully, here.
hey you're the one quoting words oddly, not me
I figured you thought I misspelled it
wtf is the reason you quoted it?
btw you seem awfully defensive there sporty ;)
somebody been ribbing you about your vocabulary? (or lack thereof?)
I would say that anyone who thinks "formulae" needs to be explained to anyone else over the age of 14 is effing stupid. IS that clear enough for you, genius?
What do you do next, explain what the meaning of "is" is?
The word in quotes is explained in the posts. The first in it's context and the second specifically.
In the first I was drawing attention to the word AS THE PLURAL to point out that THE PLAURAL (I believe) doesn't apply.
I did it SPECIFICALLY in the second post AND I'M DOING IT AGAIN NOW!
WTF else do you need? Sheesh!
You obviously didn't read the book.
BTTT for later read.
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