John:
I find your closing paragraph illuminating:
"It is my understanding that coming up with "numeric proofs" such as you
espouse can be done rather easily with other texts -- such as MOBY DICK,
for instance."
Rather than rely on hearsay (which, anyway, relates to ELS - Equidistant
Letter Sequences - a procedure completely different from my own!), why
don't you check things out for yourself?
Vernon
http://homepage.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/index.htm
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~indexer/miracla1.htm
John W. Burgeson wrote:
>
> Vernon Jenkins wrote:
>
> "I fail to grasp your line of reasoning here. You appear to suggest that
> everything can be attributed to chance! Has God no part to play in your
> reading of the scheme of things?"
>
> I am unsurprised you fail to see my reasoning -- which is, of course,
> just an example of how things work.
>
> In response to your 2nd and 3rd sentences above, I personally see God as
> complete sovereign over all. But that sovereignty does not negate the
> roles each of us necessarily must play.
>
> You go on to write:
>
> "The Scriptures inform us that in times of great apostasy God acts in a
> decisive manner to rekindle the dying embers of faith. I believe he is
> thus involved in our day - having furnished his word with a principle of
> self-verification you choose to label 'chance' - and that, I suspect,
> without having examined the extent and quality of the evidence!"
>
> I understand that to be your claim. I happen to think it is a foolish
> claim, and what I have read so far on this LISTSERV has not persuaded me
> that I should give it any more credence than yesterday's astrology
> column. Sorry about that.
>
> "Before writing off my claims, may I suggest that you read just a page or
> two from the first of the URLs - "666 - and All That!", for example. It
> will give you some insight into the kind of things I am talking about."
>
> My friend, I have read stuff like that before. It was the reading of such
> stuff that helped me decide to renounce Christianity many years ago. It
> was the realization that such stuff was not normative that persuaded me
> to reconsider Christianity some years later.
>
> It is my understanding that coming up with "numeric proofs" such as you
> espouse can be done rather easily with other texts -- such as MOBY DICK,
> for instance.
>
> Burgy
>
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