Mathematics bombshell: God 'confirmed in Bible'

World Net Daily ^ | December 12, 2004

[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.

[D Edmund Joaquin]

Ex 17:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.



Ex 34:27
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

[Maceman]

I reminded of the experience of Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, as described in "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce under the entry for the letter "J":

"J

is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, jacere verb, jacere, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl."

[docbnj]

This numerology is completely nutty.

The numbers in the Bible are most assuredly not the message. In fact, except for mere numbers of enumeration, like the Ten Commandments, the numbers in the Bible mean nothing much at all. Many of them are simple hyperbole. For example, Jesus comments that we are to forgive seventy times seven times (490, if you suspect that there is any mystery in that). That was because the customary saying was that one should forgive seven times (which usually will do the job!), but by giving a ridiculously large number, he was saying that there is no real limit. He was saying it in an easily remembered way, as a clever quip, and using hyperbole (exaggeration for effect). Hyperbole is all throughout Jesus's teachings.

If people would lighten up a bit, and read the Bible straight, it is not that difficult.

Does anyone really take seriously the dimesins of the ark? Or the ages of those superannuated ancestors in the Old Testament? If there is any message there, it is God saying to us, "This is not a matter of numbers."

While people are looking for wisdom in obscure places, the truth is plainly stated, and right in front of them. It does not take a Ph.D., or higher math, or knowledge of dead languages to figure it out.

[beyond the sea]

LOL.

JAMJ had some decent time against Pitt.

[greasepaint]

Have the 'bible-code' script kiddies
ever looked at the Talmud?
.
Lots of goodies.

[Condor51]

Bravo Sierra.

• Agreed!

If God were to put "proof" of his existence in the Bible, then why not give something unequivocal such as "The Sun is a Star", or "E=MC²"?(I fixed 'it' for you)

• Excellent point.
  That being said, I remember something in Genesis about this woman, a garden, a serpent and some fruit 'we' were not to eat and oh yeah ... a Tree of Knowledge. I seem to recall the moral of 'that story' was that God did NOT want us to know certain things.

Why would the greatest being in existence bother to play obscure number games which only appear in Hebrew?

• Uh, because God is mono linguistic? Ok, I'm being silly, the correct answer is your Bravo Sierra

In any event, why would you want concrete proof for the existence of God? Wouldn't that totally invalidate the concept of faith?

• Are you attempting to inject logic into this subject?

[StonyBurk]

Truth--and Scripture go hand in hand. Some choose to reject
both.Some rebel against one--but not the other.Clearly those
who reject God will reject any Scientific evidence that
affirms -reaffirms ones faith.These Codes merely PROVE ones
faith--or ones lack of Faith.Ones obedience--or rebellious
childishness.

[AntiGuv]

The term "evolution" can mean very, very different things. The term "Cyrus" cannot..

[Condor51]

"... but are you sure E=MC^2 is correct? There are no exceptions?"

Well, thus far E=MC² has held up. There was almost a "problem" with it regrading Gamma Ray Bursts, but Physicists eventually found "the" solution and E=MC² wound up still being correct.

That being said, the 'solution' to make E=MC² 'work' was kind of heading shaking. I just went uh .. ok, sure. As to me it seemed to ignore an obvious contradiction. Or at the least it raised more questions.

[dangus]

Please tell me that NewsMax hasn't gotten so thoroughly debased as to be publishing "The Bible Code" as a news story! THere's only been three movies, four sequels and spinoffs, countless refutations, and ten years of failed prediction since "The Bible Code."

This is like the snake-handlers' answer to Nostradamus.

[dangus]

Oh, and here's something else funny: The Hebrew bible, as it stands today, was compiled only after Christ was denied by the Jews. Archaeological discoveries and historical research have shown that, in spite of St. Jerome's naive assertions, it's the Septuagint and not the Masoretic Text which most closely approximates the Hebrew bible at the time of Christ's birth. Only problem is there was no starnadardized text at all at that time.

[dangus]

3.1416537263876738839207884845831637260548326253917283IAMYHWH238371FREPRSROK3827183515

[dangus]

Yeah, Miss Marple, that's part of the joke.

[Rebel_Ace]

". Isaiah 53 proved to be a rich cluster of hidden messages, containing 42 encoded statements relating to Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension, far more than his baseline predicted. 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!"

Yeah! Plus '42' was the answer to the ultimate question of the universe in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's all the proof I need.

[Rebel_Ace]

Aww, ya beat me to it. :)

[Rockitz]

Where's the bunny with a pancake on his head when you need him?

[concretebob]

and is the reverse of 24

[nmh]

The Judeo Christian God doesn't operate by sleight of hand. Yes He uses numbers for symbolic reasons BUT He doesn't hide things so only a few can know.

[TalBlack]

If you run enough formulae you can get a code to say anything from any huge group of letters and words.

Maybe so, but in the Bible Codes they don't run "formulae" and they have only one code, a simple skip sequence, that is complicated (mathematically) by context.

As far as the code being proof of God: Reporter Michael Drosnin who wrote two or three books on the subject believes the code is real and believes it's creator could see the future--but he STILL does not believe in God.

[Joey Silvera]

Could you do it with TV Guide or some Shakespeare and post it here?