| Author | Message | ||
| Bruce H |
Does anybody have some interesting things about the Bible | ||
| Bruce H |
Try design a genealogy - even from fiction - that meets the following criteria: 1) The number of WORDS in it must be divisible by 7 evenly. (In each of these constraints , it is assumed that the divisions are without remainders.) 2) The number of LETTERS must also be divisible by 7. 3) The number of VOWELS and The number of CONSONANTS must also be divisible by 7. 4) The number of words that BEGIN WITH A VOWEL must be divisible by 7. 5) The number of words that BEGIN WITH A CONSONANT must be divisible by 7. 6) The number of words that OCCUR MORE THAN ONCE must be divisible by 7. 7) The number of words that OCCUR IN MORE THAN ONE FORM must be divisible by 7. 8) The number of words that OCCURE IN ONLY ONE FORM must be divisible by 7. 9) The number of NOUNS shall be divisible by 7. 10) Only 7 words shall NOT be nouns. 11) The number of NAMES in the genealogy shall be divisible by 7. 12) Only 7 OTHER KINDS OF NOUNS are permited. 13) The number of MALE NAMES shall be divisible by 7. 14) The number of GENERATIONS shall be 21, also divisible by 7. A remarkable evidence of the numerical structure of Scripture: these are met in the first 11 verses (in Greek) in Matthew Chapter 1. Based on the insight of Dr Ivan Panin (1855- 1942). | ||
| Bruce H |
THE BIBLE CODES IN THE 16TH CENTURY, RABBI MOSES CORDEVARO DISCOVERED A HIDDEN CODE WITHIN THE TORAH (THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE). 08451 hrwt towrah {to-raw'} or torah {to-raw'} HE DISCOVERED THAT IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS IF HE WENT ALONG IN THE TORAH UNTIL HE CAME TO THE FIRST HEBREW LETTER OF TORAH OR (TAWV), AND THEN HE COUNTED 49 HEBREW LETTERS, THE 50TH WAS A (VAWV) AND REPEATING THE 50TH LETTER AFTER THAT WAS A ( (RAYSH) AND AGAIN REPEATING TO THE 50TH LETTER A (HAY). THIS SPELLS THE WORD TORAH IN HEBREW. HE FOUND THE SAME THING IN EXODUS. IT DID NOT DO IT IN LEVITCUS, BUT IN NUMBERS AND DEUTERONOMY HE FOUND THAT TORAH WAS STILL AT 50 LETTER SEQUENCES BUT IN REVERSE. (50 LETTER SEQUENCES) GENESIS = TORH EXODUS = TORH LEVITICUS = ? NUMBERS = HROT DEUTERONOMY = HROT HE THEN WENT TO LEVITICUS TO SEE WHAT ELSE HE COULD FIND. HE FOUND THE HEBREW WORD FOR GOD YAWHY (OR HEBREW YHWH) SPACES EVERY SEVENTH LETTER. GENESIS EXODUS LEVITICUS NUMBERS DEUTERONOMY TORH TORH YHWH HROT HROT > > GOD < < LAW LAW LAW LAW NOTICE THAT THE LAW ALWAYS POINTS TO GOD. THIS IS ALL A COINCIDENCE, HA! HA! I HAVE A TORAH SCROLL AT HOME AND I DID IT ON THE SCROLL YOU CAN DO IT TOO JUST LOOK FOR THE LETTERS OF THE HEBREW WORD AND COUNT. BRUCE | ||
| BRUCE H |
When I grew up in Adventist Church I was often told that the Bible had errors and discrepancies in it and that was because erring mortals had written the Bible and man makes mistakes. I have done a lot of study on a lot of these points of contention in the Bible and I find the Bible without fault and no errors. Here is an interesting example. 1 Kings 7:23 23 And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. This passage deals with Solomon's Temple and the products of Hiram the Bronze worker. The hugh cast bronze basin in 1 Kings 7:23 was 10 cubits in diameter and its circumference was 30 cubits, which is mathematically inaccurate. Almost any schoolboy knows that the circumference of a circle is not the diameter times 3, but rather, the diameter times a well-known constant called ("pi"). The real value of ("pi") is 3.14159265358979 but is commonly approximated by 22/7. This is assumed, by many to be an error in the Old Testament record, and is often presented as a skeptical rebuttal to the inerrancy of the Scripture. How can we say that the bible is innerrant when it contains such an obvious geometrically incorrect statement? How do we deal with this? Well if you do your research and ask the Holy Spirit for Help he will guide you into all truth 1 John 2:27. I came upon the answer at this website http://www.khouse.org, they stated that they found the answer the same way. The common word (Hebrew) for circumference (KJV = round about) is qav (6957-strongs). Here, however, the spelling of the word for circumference, qaveh, adds a heh (The same letter added to Abram to make it Abraham). (In the text above, each word also has a leading vawv as a conjunction for the masculine singular noun.) In the Hebrew Bible, the scribes did not alter any text which they felt had been copied incorrectly. Rather, they noted in the margin what they thought the written text should be. The written variation is called a ketiv, here as qaveh or quv with a heh added (Sorry I cannot use the Hebrew it will not work on this web site), and the marginal annotation is called the qere. To the ancient scribes, this was also regarded as a remez, a hint of something deeper. This appears to be the clue to treat the word as a mathematical formula. The Hebrew alphabet is alphanumeric: each Hebrew letter also has a numerical value and can be used as a number. The Hebrew letter (qowph) has a value of 100; the other Hebrew letter is the (vawv) and it has a value of 6 (both these letters make up the Hebrew word for circumference), thus, the normal spelling would yield a numerical value of 106. The addition of the (heh), with a value of 5, increases the numerical value to 111. This indicates an adjustment of the ratio 111/106, or 31.41509433962 (30 cubits times the ratio {111/106} 1.0471698) cubits. Assuming that a cubit was 1.5 ft., this 15-foot-wide bowl would have had a circumference of 47.12388980385 feet. This Hebrew "code" results in 47.1226415093 feet, or an error of less than 15 thousands of an inch! (This error is 15 times better than the 22/ 7 or 3.14 estimate that we were accustomed to using in school!) How did they accomplish this? This accuracy would seem to vastly exceed the precision of their instrumentation. How would they know this? How was it encoded into the text? Beyond simple these engineering insights of Solomon's day, there are more far-reaching implications of this passage. The Bible is reliable. The "errors" pointed out by skeptics usually derive from misunderstandings or trivial quibbles. You can see this in your interlinear Bible. Bruce Heinrich BH BH |
