[papertyger]

Bravo Sierra. 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]"?

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.

[Quix]

Actually,

THE CHINESE SCRIPT

has LOTS of very Biblical facts embedded in them. I hope to post an excellent presentation of such--maybe this holiday season.

[Quix]

A couple of such are:

The character for a BIG BOAT has the characters within it of 8, people and boat. So, in essence, the combination of characters for 8, people and boat = BIG BOAT--the ARK, clearly.

And,

the character for RIGHTEOUS

has in it LAMB
over 1 person

=

RIGHTEOUS.

Any Christian knows that The Blood of THE LAMB over us makes us righteous.