Subject: 40 in the bible |
Bible Note: Dear Brother Mark, "A rose by any other name." Since reassertion is a mechanism that appears, by your use, to be of value to you, permit me to reassert: "There are, simply put, some things that don't go together well and would be better kept apart, things like numerology and Scripture, for example. We of Study Bible Forum have been exposed to some 'biblical numerology' theories -- largely of the crack-pot genre -- and we have come to discourage this sort of thing on the grounds that it is not usually didactic, never edifying, and frequently arcane and confusing. By and large, when the Bible mentions a number, it is for the purpose of communicating quantity. Rarely do numbers in Scripture do anything more than simply to enumerate persons, places, or things. But there have been books written on biblical numerology, presumably by persons who loved to play guessing games and could think of no more fruitful ways to spend their time than by indulging their fetish about numbers." --Hank Following the rabbit trail regarding prophesy: "In spite of the popular aphorism that 'the prophets wrote better than they knew,' the prophet's self-understanding of their prophecies is exhibited by their awareness of (1) the results of their words, (2) the implications of their prophecies, (3) the knowledge of things that were humanly impossible, and (4) the relation that contemporary events and circumstances had with future events in the same series of happenings." --Dr. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Brother Mark, you are free to believe what you will. However, I am not obligated to embrace the sagacity of such beliefs. Is the decease equine sufficiently tenderized? Or shall we go for another round of reassertions and/or rabbit trails? :-) In Him, Doc |