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I hope you can appreciate that this is not going to get a single positive response - and understand, eventually why...
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I hope you can appreciate that this is not going to get a single positive response - and understand, eventually why...
...why even a group of disparate Atheists, Christians, and people with hugely differing and unfounded theories about the Bible - will all laugh at this.
if you follow the youtube "linked videos you can get from 9/11 to George Bush being a shapeshifter who planned the whole thing in less than 6 degrees of separation -
the thing they have in common is the wilful ignoring of any real evidence in favour of conjecture that suits their insane confirmation bias.
I hope you find a way out of this sooner rather than later, and don't end up being one of those cranks that Buzz Aldrin punches out for being confrontationally abusive....
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The Bible's authenticity has nothing at all to do with its supposed divinity. Authenticity and Divinity do not appear to connect. There is no such thing as Authen-vinity. Though I cant help suspecting that "vinity" is close to the ambiance described.
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The Bible's authenticity has nothing at all to do with its supposed divinity. Authenticity and Divinity do not appear to connect. There is no such thing as Authen-vinity. Though I cant help suspecting that "vinity" is close to the ambiance described.
You are trying to make water run up hill by breathing on it. Not totally impossible, but too much warm self involved in the air of this room describing an idea of a room - to an empty room.
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Ok. I'm going to say, up front, I am a believer in the Bible and a believer in hiddden, deeper meanings in the text. And there is lots of work from the scholarly rabbis in the medieval period speaking to the letters in the ancient Hebrew language found in the Torah, which are alphanumeric, as being "mystical". There are other non cannonized texts that speak of this, along with such Kabbalah texts like the Zohar. So, yes, I think theres more than meets the eye and I believe there is something special about the Hebrew alphabet. THAT SAID, whats being discussed here is basically "The Bible Code", where equal distant letter skipping is used to find hidden "codes" in the Torah text. It became a big seller after its author allegedly used it to predict the assassination of Isreali PM Rabbin. In essence, it takes the Torah, places a letter skip in, then grids the letters into almost what amounts to a Hebrew crossword puzzle. Then, certain words are searched. And they have reportedly found words and phraes like "JFK", "assassination", "will be shot" in these grids. I read the book by Michael Drosnin years ago. Its interesting, and spooky at times; the same kind of spooky you feel when you sync up "Dark Side of the Moon" to "The Wizard of Oz". But truth is, you can find the same stuff the same way using other texts, most famously the experiment using ELS to find similar "predictions" in the book "Moby d**k" done by Brendan McKay.( I've provided a link of some of this below). While I have great admiration for Eli Ripps and think sometimes McKay doesn't come off the right way, the fact is its been proven that "The Bible Code" has been proven as mere coincidence. Further more, why God place groupings of words describing or related to an event in a code where they will only be found after the fact? What good is that?
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I don't want to be crass, but that's just the way I'm wired. What does a numerological pattern, contrived or coincidental, do to authenticate the veracity or divinity of the Bible? Nothing. Moreover, there are many Christian apologists who claim the same thing with rules that fly in the face of this ridonkulous hypothesis.
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