In a message dated 9/27/2000 5:25:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
vernon.jenkins@virgin.net writes:
<< Clearly, your limited survey of the material I have put online has been
insufficient to experience the full impact of what I am attempting to
convey. [Your suggestion that such a confluence of unique and
coordinated numerical geometries and symbolisms in a significant passage
of text is relatively commonplace is completely without foundation, I'm
afraid!] But, allow me to elaborate a little:
>>
I'd suggest that you show us that the numerical geometries and symbolisms are
indeed not a common place. As the Bible Code for instance has shown, it is
quite easy to find 'hidden messages' in texts, messages that are nothing more
than a figment of our imaginative mind. Are these structures indeed more than
just a coincidence? Have you such research to show this?
Chris, I suggest that it would be foolish to lightly shrug off these
<< 'coincidences' (and there are very many more!) as being merely the
products of chance. In their entirety - and keeping in mind their
>>
Until shown otherwise, it would be foolish to consider these 'coincidences'
more than just chance.
a<< ssociation with the significant opening words of a large book (which
claims for itself 'divine inspiration'!) - they amount to a strongly
persuasive argument for the truth of Genesis 1:1, and for the wider
truths contained between the Bible's covers.
>>
The Bible does not need numerology for its message.
<< Many have set the course of their lives on greatly inferior evidences! -
wouldn't you agree?
>>
True but in science such endeavours have often lead to disappointments. That
we in our spiritual life are less constrained to look at 'evidence' and
'coincidences' and marvel at the 'design' does not mean that we can be that
sloppy in science.
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