Vernon,
Regarding this Bible code:
What does it do?
How does this give us further revelation?
How is God glorified?
Maybe I just don't get it... but all I see are some numeric oddities -
some of which which all Bible scholars know, simple things like their
fondness of 6, 7, 40, all the sevens in the opening passage of Genesis,
etc. The only added twist I see is geometric representations and factors?
The only possible application I can see would be to affirm the
supernatural origin of the Bible?
The problems I see are - if you merely analyze words with this technique
it would argue more for the supernatural aspects of the Hebrew language
than the Bible. And if you start analyzing phrases using this technique
you suffer the same problems as does the other Bible code i.e. any change
in the text (EVER) would completely destroy or manufacture false
information.
Early on I got caught up in the original Bible code by Drosnin - it touted
being able to see past and future events etc. But as soon as I saw you
could get virtually anything you wanted in this fashion (i.e. God is evil)
I lost all interest in this alleged phenomena.
-VR
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