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Bruce H
Posted on Friday, April 21, 2000 - 4:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anybody have some interesting things about
the Bible
Bruce H
Posted on Friday, April 21, 2000 - 4:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
Posted on Friday, April 21, 2000 - 4:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2000 - 8:06 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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

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