Bible Code.

[Windlord]

I discovered something rather frightening.

The Bible Code may actually be a form of Witchcraft known as Arithmancy. Arithmancy was a practice of the Ancient Greek and Babylonian Religions, in which they would use meanings of numbers to divine the future.

What do you think?

Peace,

Windlord.

 

[justified]

Well, eitherway the bible code is a crackpot topic. You can't not create a code with the amount of text that's been put together -- it's mathematical probability. There was never any intention by anyone, especially not divine intention -- to create a code. So whoever wants to divine can do so all they want. (However, in my limited knowledge of ancient Greece, I've never heard of them doing arithmancy)

 

[MidnightCandel777]

You can do the same code with a copy of Mobey Dick. But who knows...

 

[daveleau]

Numerology is a pagan concept being applied spuriously to Scripture. This comes from the ideas that the future can be divined from hidden meanings within its original (or even translated!) languages. This is comes from two basic premises: allegorical interpretation that assumes the literal translation is the least important with deeper allegory being most important (Origen) and a superstitious view that came from pagan roots (look at the early times of phenomenal church growth and the results of the influx of pagans in different early patriarchates and lesser churches).

The Bible Code, or other numerological interpretations, are unreliable fabrications that should not be given any credence as prayer and a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ alone is the only way to divine unknowable things.

 

[Windlord]

Numerology is a pagan concept being applied spuriously to Scripture. This comes from the ideas that the future can be divined from hidden meanings within its original (or even translated!) languages. This is comes from two basic premises: allegorical interpretation that assumes the literal translation is the least important with deeper allegory being most important (Origen) and a superstitious view that came from pagan roots (look at the early times of phenomenal church growth and the results of the influx of pagans in different early patriarchates and lesser churches).

The Bible Code, or other numerological interpretations, are unreliable fabrications that should not be given any credence as prayer and a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ alone is the only way to divine unknowable things.

While I agree that Numerology has its roots in paganism, Allegorical Interpretations doesn't really. The Talmud itself offers allegorical interpretations of Scripture.

Peace,

Windlord.

 

[daveleau]

No, I was tying allegorical interpretation into numerology, not allegorical interpretation to paganism. The idea that Scripture holds multiple deeper spiritual meanings is the basis for numerology. Sorry for not phrasing that more clearly.