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1 | Questions I'm trying to answer | Joshua | mark d seyler | 168849 | ||
Hi Jeff, I'd like to offer on answer to this question, as one who has observed both micro and macro codes in the Bible. God's "signature" is throughout Scripture. Whether it is in the construction of the letters, words, stories, or teachings, there are many proofs within the Bible that it could not have been written by mere men, but could only have been written by God. These "codes" if you will are not there, in my opinion, to teach as such, but because God is infinitely creative, and can do this because He can. And its not just ELS signatures (I know many many people go way to far with this). There is the heptatic structure of Matthew's genealogy. Rules of Hermaneutics, usable on writings by 40 different people, over 2500 years. The first time "Love" is used: "Take thy son, thy only son, whom thou lovest". These things, and so many more, speak of the infinite creativity of our God. My favorite examble of "Bible Code" is in Gen. 5. Here are the names given in the genealogy of the ten generations from Adam to Noah, with their meanings: Adam - Man Seth - Appointed Enosh - Mortal Cainan - Sorrow Mahaleleel - The Blessed God Jared - He comes down Enoch - To Teach Methuselah - His Death Will Bring Lamech - Despairing Noah - Rest As fathers and mothers named their children during the 1600 years before the flood, did they realize they were proclaiming the Gospel? Man appointed mortal sorrow. The Blessed God comes down teaching. His death brings the despairing rest. Subliminal? Secret? Hidden truth? Or an infinitely creative God writing His Book? Just my 2 cents worth... Love in Christ, Mark |
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2 | Questions I'm trying to answer | Joshua | DocTrinsograce | 168961 | ||
Dear Brother Mark, There's quite a bit of "spin" on those name translations. I had heard this notion once upon a time. Armed with my Strong's, I attempted to wrench a sentence from the genealogies, in spite of Paul's admonition to the contrary (Titus 3:9). I found that with a bit of imagination, one could just about, sort of, almost make it work. Other sections of the genealogies are a lot harder to wrangle around into something meaningful... Salah - Missle Eber - Across Peleg - Earthquake Reu - Friend Serug - Tendril Nahor - One who Snores Hmmm... I think I don't quite have the creativity to wrangle something out of that segment! Maybe Clement and Origen figured it out. They were masters of the Allegorical method of Biblical interpretation that was made famous from Alexandria. There was no Biblical passage too straightforward for them to derive some deep, hidden, mystical meaning! They taught that Bible was like a layered onion. The outer layers, consisting of the literal, obvious meaning of a text, were for the shallow, un-enlightened masses. The deeper layers could only be ferreted out by the more spiritual, gifted few. In Him, Doc |
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3 | Questions I'm trying to answer | Joshua | jlhetrick | 168968 | ||
Hi Doc, Thanks for joining in. You might try applying the method to the writing on the back of a cereal box. I haven't tried it myself, but I read somewhere that you can get that to say just about anything as well. That is, if your creative enough with rearranging and reapplying the code to make something work out. Jeff |
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