One mind, One author--One God; Many different writers--but One Writer! Mathematically the Bible is bound by hundreds of prime number patterns. The Bible has its own built-in self-checking mechanism against someone tampering with it! Take out one letter and it damages the whole pattern! How could writers consisting of mere fishermen and tax collectors have conjured up something as remarkable as this mathematical pattern?
In 1882, Ivan Panin, a Russian immigrant, had just graduated from Harvard. A brilliant mathematician, multi-lingual scholar (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek), and a literary figure, he had traveled as an agnostic (a doubter/ non believer) and had lectured often on atheism. He began studying the Bible in the original languages, of which he was fluent.
Now, both Hebrew and Greek are unique in that they do not use special symbols for their numbering system, but instead use the letters of their alphabets to represent numbers. Each letter can actually represent a number, too.
Aware of the numerical values of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets, Panin experimented one day by replacing the letters with their corresponding numbers in the scriptures. Suddenly, his trained mind saw a mathematical pattern. The verses he had studied bore unmistakable evidence of "an elaborate mathematical pattern, far beyond random chance, or human ability to construct!"
This study marked a turning point in his career, and from that time until his death in 1942, he devoted his entire life to the study of Bible NUMERICS. He later supplied the Nobel Research Foundation with over 43,000 sheets of his studies accompanied by his statement that this was his evidence that the Bible was the Word of God. The Foundation acknowledged, "As far as our investigation has proceeded, we find the evidence overwhelming in favor of such a statement."
Panin found that patterns of prime numbers, such as 11, 13, 17, 23, "but especially 7," were found in great clusters. When you add up the sum of all numerical values for different words, sentences, paragraphs, passages, and whole books, you find the same pattern in each of these forms:
The number of words in a vocabulary divides by 7.
The number of proper names, both male and female, divides by 7.
The number of words that begin with a vowel, or a consonant, divides by 7.
The number of nouns is divisible by 7, as are the words that are not.
The same for words that occur more than once in a sentence, paragraph, book, or the whole Bible are divisible by 7.
Even the number of words beginning with each letter of the alphabet are divisible by 7.
And on and on the list goes!
Some examples are:
Genesis 1:1, the very first sentence in the Bible, states, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In the Hebrew, that comes out exactly 7 words that have exactly 28 (4 x 7) letters, 3 nouns (God, Heaven, and Earth), 1 Hebrew verb (created). Taking the letters of the nouns and substituting their numerical equivalents and adding them up, you get 777 (111 x 7)! The verb had a numerical value of 203 (29 x 7). This process can be carried out as far as you want to go!
Matthew 1:1-11 has 49 words (7 x 7) in the original Greek, with 28 words that begin with a vowel (4 x 7), and the remaining 21 (3 x 7) begin with a consonant, 7 end with a vowel, and 42 end with a consonant (6 x 7). The 49 words have 266 letters (38 x 7); 140 are vowels (20 x 7); 126 are consonants (18 x 7). Of these 49 words, 14 occur only once (2 x 7); 35 occur more than once (5 x 7); 42 are nouns (6 x 7) that have exactly 49 letters (7 x 7). Male names occur 56 times (8 x 7), and women's names appear 3 times (a prime number), and the letters of their names add up to 14. How far do you want to check it? It keeps coming out the same!
Every word, chapter, and book in the Bible checks out this way. The Bible has its own built-in self-checking mechanism against someone tampering with it! Take out one letter and it damages the whole pattern! How could mere fishermen and tax collectors have conjured up something as remarkable as this mathematical pattern?
One mind, One author--One God; Many different writers--but One Writer!
Can you imagine the kind of Mind that would do this, and not even care if you found out?
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