Newton's Cat

God is mentioned 8 times (excluding "Son of God" in verse 4, which is an interpolation) in Romans 1,1-17

God as the sender of "good news" in verse 1

God who loves in verse 7

God who gives "grace and peace", God the Father, also in verse 7

God who can be thanked in verse 8

God who observes in verse 9

God who wills in verse 10

God who has power (a king God) in verse 16

God who is just (a judge God) in verse 17

The first 4 aspects of God represent human, everyday personal experience

The next two are concerned with observation and response

The final two can be seen as King and Judge.

If the references to Jesus are stripped from the text:

"a servant of Jesus Christ" in verse 1

All of verses 3-6

"and Lord Jesus Christ" in verse 7

"through Jesus Christ" in verse 8

"in the Gospel of the Son of him" in verse 9

... then one is left with a Greek text containing exactly 1000 letters.

If verse 11 is moved to follow verse 15 this text can be neatly divided into 4 sections, each of 51 words.

The 4 aspects of the "human" God are in the 1st section.

The observation-response aspects are in the 2nd section.

The king-judge aspects are in the 4th section.

In each of the 8 references to God the first letter of the word God, or the first letter of its definite article, if it has one, is an even number of letters from the beginning of the text. The odds against this happening by chance are 128-1. Furthermore, in 7 out of the 8 instances, the word God, or its definite article, is an odd number of words from the beginning of the text. Multiply the odds against this happening by chance by 128.

The "odd one out" is the "observer God" in verse 9 (o theos). This is a pointer to the author's philosophical "concept of God". If the numbers of the 8 first letters are added together and divided by 8 one gets the first letter of the word "ede", which means "the now", "the present moment". The odds against the total dividing by 8 are 4-1. Multiply 128 by whatever the odds are for the 7 out of 8 then multiply by 4 to get the odds against this occurring by chance.

Christianity evolved from a fraudulent interpolation of Christian dogma into pre-existing texts that were VERY sophisticated in their structure.

Mark, the story of Jesus, was just that - a story of Jesus, King of the Jews, that was later fraudulently altered by interpolation and addition of large chunks of Christian dogma.

St Peter was nowhere to be seen in the original story of Jesus.

A single individual founded Christianity (same as with Mormonism, etc).

Christianity is a cult ... riding on the back of a sophisticated religious philosophy.

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Gotny more examples of such passages? One by itself certainly isn't convincing.


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