On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> I observe that forum members are apt to say this kind of thing from time to time - but the fact is that the claim is manifestly untrue! Better than any 'controlled experiment' - as David suggests - is an examination of the historical records: in this case, the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures which form the basis of all Bible translations. A potentially significant feature of these writings is that they may also be fairly read as _sets of numbers_; in other words, stripped of their literal/interpreted meaning they rest, ultimately, on a solid numerical _ground_. And while it may be supposed that such a ground must, in itself, be devoid of all meaning, a cursory examination of the 7 Hebrew words of the Bible's opening verse suffices to prove otherwise - its representative numbers and their combinations being observed to make a great deal of numero-geometrical sense! Indeed, such is the richness of these 'pyrotechnics' that Genesis 1:1 - already a powerful and strategically-p!
laced assertion, and most widely read sentence of all time - must be rated _the most remarkable combination of words ever written_! [Details provided here: http://homepage.virgin.net/tgvernon.jenkins/Wonders.htm]
Vernon,
How can the numerical features observed in Genesis 1:1 tell us anything at
all about any other passages in Hebrew or Greek as you seem to imply?
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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