From: Vernon Jenkins (vernon.jenkins@virgin.net)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 17:44:48 EST
Re: So what?!Howard,
Thank you for writing, but you misrepresent me. I have for some 25 years attempted to bring these features of the Bible's opening words to the attention of others - fellow Christians, in particular. Basing my expectations on 'normal practice', I believed that empirical data of this quality and significance would be eagerly grasped and propagated by others. Nothing of the kind has happened, of course! And I wondered why - eventually finding the answer in Gen.8:21, Psalm 2 and Jer.17:9. I therefore do no more than remind people of what God has said about us _all_. What is 'self-serving' and 'arrogant' about that? And where is the 'abuse of Scripture' that you speak of ? These characteristics of the human condition prompted the Incarnation, and all that followed. Clearly, there was no other way!
Vernon
http://www.otherbiblecode.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Howard J. Van Till
To: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: So what?!
From: "Vernon Jenkins" <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net>
> The message [revealed by the numero-geometrical structures that I have
> discovered in the biblical text] is uncovered by the application of simple
> logic. It is twofold:
>
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>
> (2) The widely-experienced adverse reaction to the phenomena reveals a
> serious flaw in man's mental faculties. This of course is completely in
> line with biblical expectations - confirming, in particular, Jer.17:9
> (which otherwise might well be considered unbelievable!)
Vernon,
What you seem to be saying is this: Anyone who disagrees with Vernon's theory that these numero-geometrical structures were placed in the text by God to serve as proof of divine biblical inspiration is a person whose mental faculties are seriously flawed and whose "heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure."
If that is what you intended to convey, I hereby award you First Prize for posting one of the most self-serving and arrogant abuses of Scripture that I have ever seen.
Howard Van Till
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