From: brendt@dip1 (Brendt Wohlberg)
Subject: Proof: God wrote the Bible
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 22:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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[ Article crossposted from uct.chat ]
[ Author was fllant01@uctvax.uct.ac.za ]
[ Posted on 31 Aug 92 13:44:25 +0200 ]

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Extract from 'Seal of God' by F.C.Payne (1974):

BIBLE NUMERICS - FIRST ASPECT

The New Testament begins with the genealogy of Christ back to
Abraham. It is interesting to note that this genealogy itself is
divided into three sets of 14: Abraham to David (14), David to
Babylon (14), Babylon to Christ (14). See Matt. 1:17. It has two
natural sectiond, verses 1-11 and 12-17. I am but giving some
examples from the section 1 to 11, the latter section contains
similar phenomena which need not be enumerated. The following now is
from the Greek, in whick the N.T. is written. The actual numerics are
by Dr. Panin.

The vocabulary to the first section of this genealogy has 49 words.
Now follow carefully and note every Greek word is taken in 11 verses
as in any portion dealt with. Now 49 happens to be 7*7, it has two
separate numeric features, it is a multiple of 7, and second, the sum
of its factors is 14, 2*7. of these 49 words, 28, or 4*7, begin with
a vowel, and the remaining 21, 3*7, with a  consonant. Thus the whole
of the words of the vocabulary are divided into words beginnings and
ending with a vowel, or a consonant, not at random, but by sevens
exactly, so here we have six features of seven. But these 49 words
have 266 letters, again a multiple of seven, i.e., 38*7. Yet that is
not all, the sum of the figures, 266, is 14, 2*7, and the sum of the
factors 2 + 19 + 7 is again a multiple of seven, namely, 28, 4*7,
and so we have three additional features of seven. Now remember we
said the 49 words of the vocabulary are divided between vowel words
and consonant words by sevens. Well, remarkable, no doubt, but the
266 letters follwo exactly the same plan, namely, 140 of them, 20*7,
are vowels, and 126, or 18*7, are consonants. Now there is only one
chance in a million that these things could have happened
accidentally, but if that were all, we might say, "Well, a strange
thing may happen once in a while, even though the chance is one in a
million," but it so happens that of those 49 words, seven occur in
more than one form, 42, 6*7, in one form only, 14 occur once, 35,
5*7, more than once; 42, 6*7, are nouns, seven are not nouns. Of the
42 nouns, 35, 5*7, are proper names, the other seven are common
nouns. These seven common nouns have exactly have exactly 49, 7*7,
letters, which by the way, is only one of a number of 7s in these
seven nouns. The number of times the 35 proper names occur is exactly
63, 9*7. Of the 35 proper names 28, 4*7, are male ancestors of the
Lord Jesus Christ after the flesh, and seven are not. These male
names occur in all exactly 56 times, 8*7. The names of three women
only occur in the passage and the Greek letters in their names is
exactly 14, 2*7. One city only is mentioned: Babylon. It has exactly
seven Greek letters. So this not only presents a further set of
divisions of sevens, but diminishes the chances of accident to six
hundred billions odd to one, according to the laws of chance. So this
scheme alone shows that some mathematical artist was behind the
wording of this genealogy, and if you give the matter careful thought
you will realise that every word, even every letter would have to be
watched for this plan or sign of "seven" to appear in such marvellous
persistence, and don't forget this is only one aspect. Many other
features of seven are hidden in this genealogy, which actually
dovetail with those shown, making it as it were a wheel within a
whell, like the hands of a clock. Dr. Panin has challenged a Bible
critic through a leading New York newspaper to produce a simialr
thing in six months. This critic first called for a champion to step
into the arena of the Sun and give some FACTS. Dr. Panin quickly
accepted the challenge with just three examples of these numerics,
with the result that all the critics were silenced, and not a single
answer was given. Nine notes rationalists were then publicly invited
to refute the facts; four made lame excuses, the rest were silent.
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That was just the beginning of the stuff on numerics in "Seal of God".
The rest was mind-blowing, especially when you start analysing the
nunbers of the Greek and Hebrew letters. (In ancient Greek and
Hebrew, their number systems were based on their alphabet and each
letter has an associated number) eg. A=1, E=8, M=40, N=50, so AMEN =
1 + 40 + 8 + 50 = 99. The number of times AMEN occurs in the N.T. is
also 99. Coincidence? Think again. Jesus in Greek is:

             I  =  10
          +  E  =   8
          +  S  = 200
          +  O  =  70
          +  U  = 400
          +  S =  200
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                  888
888 is also the number of Greek words in the Revelation of Jesus
Christ.

'Seal of God' also has the hidden numbers of Gen 1:1 and Mark 16:9-20.
The 'sevens' occur all the way through the Bible, and this provides a
true test of whether a passage is part of the Bible or not. The
apocrypha don't have the sevens.

If anyone is interested, I'll post more from the book. If anyone has
a more comprehensive book on the subject ('Seal of God' has only 4
chapters on it), I please mail/post title details.

Thanks in advance and grace be with you,
Anthony Faull
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My mail address has changed to afaull@cs1.uct.ac.za


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