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• Gematria Reference?

For a full reference check out:

GEMATRIA REFERENCE

• Isn't the SHROUD of TURIN a fake?

The answer in short is most probably not. People who claim its fake often know very little about it. The answer in full is here:

Shroud of Turin Truth

John Elias on the Gematrinator

• How do you know this is code?

Repeat-ability. The basis of science and truth is repeat-ability. We know these are codes because the same techniques produce the same results again and again. If someone was to claim that there are codes in the Bible, the one thing you would want to ask them is: Are they repeatable? Can others, using the same tools and techniques produce the same results?

The answer to that question is YES! Others can do this and others have been doing this for over a decade.

• What’s the difference between this and ‘The BIBLE CODE?’

The Bible Code is entirely different. It uses computer programs to rearrange the Torah and to scan for secrets of the future. Biblical mathematics looks for arresting and improbable mathematical patterns in the biblical texts as there are found in the original manuscripts.

• Aren’t you spelling JESUS in Hebrew wrong?

Hebrew has a number of ways of spelling the name Jesus and they have changed over the centuries. However, the original spelling of Jesus, the Biblical spelling is not what you see on Instagram and Tumbler prayer pics. The Son of God was named after the Old Testament hero Joshua. The Yeshua of modern Hebrew may very well have been a corruption by Jewish scribes who wished to differentiate the Biblical Joshua from the Christian Messiah. Whereas 'Yeshua' might have been the way the name was possibly pronounced in 1st Century Aramaic, it is not the spelling used by the earliest and closest historical sources to the man.

The Septuagint (the Greek version of the Old Testament and very much a primary source for the Apostles and the Early Church) shows that the Jewish translators who created the Septuagint, always translated Jesus-888 for Joshua-391.

Moreover, the New Testament cites the Old Testament name Joshua twice (Acts 7:45; Heb 4:8). In each instance the Greek translation reads letter for letter the same as the Greek 888-Yehsous where we get today's Jesus. In the beginning of Matthew the name given to the child is a clear reference to the Hebrew meaning of the name Joshua, for he would save the people from their sins. Jesus (Joshua) means 'The Lord is Salvation', the very meaning of the life of Christ.

There are several sites that thoroughly prove the point. For a detailed history of the name Jesus see the History of the Name Jesus

This also absolutely refutes Simcha Jacobovici's ridiculous claim concerning the 'Supposed' Tomb of Jesus. Professional archaeologists are well aware that modern day Israel is awash with extremely convincing archaeological fakes and there is much money to be made in this sort of trade. One can understand how this 'Ossuary of Jesus' is a fake for the following reason:

They spelled Jesus' name wrong!

The inscription reads "ישו בר יוסף" "Yeshu Bar Yoseph, 'Jesus' son of Joseph" on the Ossuary,

but not with a spelling anyone who knew the real Jesus would have ever used.

Moshe Ben Aharon of Krakow, aka the converted Jew Johan Kemper, was possibly the first to point out, that the name may have been changed due to the yimakh shemo יִמַּח שְׁמו the 'classic' Jewish curse, meaning: 'May his name be obliterated' — i.e. lost to history. Stunningly, the Toledot Yeshu, the ancient anti-Christian propaganda tract, records the change in the name from Jesus/Joshua (Yehoshua) to the 'deteriorated' (their words not mine) form of Yeshu:

Miriam gave birth to a son and named him Yehoshua, after her brother.

This name later deteriorated to Yeshu.

—Toledoth Yeshu

• What Bible are you using?

Biblical mathematics doesn't typically employ a specific Bible translation, and when we do, we make sure to cite it first and foremost. The reason for this is that we are more interested in the original texts in the original languages that produced the modern Bible.

• Scribal Errors? Textual Variations? Kethib/Qere?

The historical and archaeological evidence for the texts of the Bible are quite simply academically overwhelming. There is, by many professional estimates, more historical evidence for the Bible than any other book or text in the history of the world. That being said, with that much evidence from so many different peoples over such a long period of time there has accumulated a great number of variations from the orginal text.

For the most part, these variations are nothing more than the modern equivalent of a typo, and easily remedied by comparisons with other texts from the period. In the New Testament, many are no more than a single letter difference, such as the 'Movable Nu' which has no bearing on the meaning of the text, only its proper poetic/phonetic pronunciation. In the Old Testament, the Masorectic Scribes that codified the Tanakh, noted and included any and all variations that could not be accounted for. These inclusion can be seen in any modern Hebrew Bible and are known as the Kethib/Qere notations: 'As Written' and 'As Read'.

Theologically, these variations very rarely produce any controversy, save for a few passages in the New Testament manuscripts. Mathematically, however, they are of seminal importance since any mathematical pattern is wholly dependent on a 100% accurate version text down to every single letter. The great abundance of these variations makes the issue impossible to ignore from the mathematical perspective, as entire passages in the New Testament would have to be ignored including the Lord's Prayer.

See the Superscription of the Cross for a prime example of a mystery of the text that was solved by mathematics.

So what is the solution to this Gordian Knot of a problem?

If you believe that God is ultimately responsible for the creation of the Bible, then you must believe He is capable and faithful in its transmission through history. What that means is, is that God doesn't stop watching over the text the very moment that St. John on the Isle of Patmos finished writing the final Greek letter in the final sentence of the final chapter of the book of Revelation.

The evidence, again and again, has shown us that the variations, far from being random, produce meaningful mathematical patterns, which can only lead to the conclusion that the variations in the text are part of the provenance and providence of the Supreme Being's watchfulness over the text. This indeed is theologically mandatory: for if God is ultimately author and editor of the text, he must thereby also be its historical guardian. God doesn't walk away and forget about His book.

See the Mathematics of Mistake.

• Why use the Standard and Ordinal?

The answer is history. We know that both the Hebrews and Greeks employed the standard and ordinal in their writings. The ordinal was used as indexing numbers and currently to numerate the verses in the Tanakh and the Septuagint.

• Is there any science for Biblical Gematria?

Just recently uncovered in the ancient city of Smyrna is an archaelogical discovery that proves early Christians were well aware of Biblical Gematria. The graffiti found records one of the most outstanding correlations of Bible and reads as follows.

ισοψηφα

κυριος ω

πιστις ω

A modern translation would read:

These words are equal:

Lord = 800

Faith = 800

The find can be referenced in Roger Bagnall’s book ‘Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East’.

• Is gematria the occult?

Although occultists have long been interested in gematria, that does not make gematria occult. Gematria can be found in the Bible and is a historical fact. This webpage addresses this question in detail: Is Gematria Biblical?

• How do you check your math?

Many of the puzzles of the Bible are so large that the chances of making a mistake in the arithmetic are very high, especially when working in Hebrew, where many of the letters look nearly identical.

ת ח ה ן ו ז ך ר ד

These are nine different Hebrew letters, many of which look nearly identical

In any of the larger puzzles you must rely on computers and online Bible texts to do the work without the possibility of error.

The technique is surprisingly simple. Copy and paste a portion of the text from an online Bible in the original language, into a Word document. Then perform a find and replace command on every letter of the alphabet, replacing the letters with their appropriate numbers (add commas after the numbers in order to convert to table). Convert the numbers into a table and copy and paste that into spreadsheet program such as Excel to easily analyze the numbers. If you follow this procedure precisely, there is no possibility of mathematical error.

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