How to Test the Relative Value of Gematria-Based Arguments

How to Test the Relative Value of Gematria-Based Arguments

Since gematria is a Hebrew and Greek phenomenon, let's take the first
seven words from several Hebrew and several Greek non-Biblical works (but
make sure to choose non-Biblical works that are written in the same kind
of Hebrew letters, and same type of Greek letters as the Bible's books
were written in), and let us see what kinds of odd numbers and factors
(aside from Vern's prized "37") that a Ph.D. in mathematics with a
calculator, nimble fingers and a wide imagination, can come up with.

Vern himself may not find anything significant if we let him do the
search, because he wants his hypothesis concerning the inspiration of Gen.
1:1 above all other passages, to be true subconsciously. So let someone
else with a wider knowledge of mathematics than Vern do the searching. In
fact, I wish someone would program a computer to discover every possible
number combination and oddity in math that it can, via a gematric
dissection of any seven ancient words. And then we'd have at least a
general outline of the range of possible "hits" in non-inspired seven word
sequences.

I figure that Vern is reasoning backwards, like calculating the "odds" of
"Vern" being born. The odds are of course against Vern ever having been
born, since something could have happened differently at so many points
along the way, his parents might have never met, they might have never had
sex on that particular night when Dad and Mom's sperm and eggs had just
the right genetic alleles in them via meiosis, and just the right sperm
out of hundreds of millions reached his Mom's egg before the rest. If
you go by the odds, Vern should never have been born, the odds are far
greater that something else might have happened, and Vern never existed.
Vern is looking at Genesis 1:1 like that, he sees what is written and
imagines the incredible odds against those first seven words being
composed of multiple factors of "37," and imagines that is significant.

Let's find a Ph.D. mathematician to perform the test above, using his
imagination to hunt down every mathematical oddity in other seven word
sequences in ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek, using their gematric
values, playing around with them. I bet some interesting mathematical
oddities will shake out of nearly any seven word sequence. Different
oddities for different seven word sequences of course, because numbers are
like that.

Cheers,
Ed
Received on Sat Nov 6 00:41:04 2004