rickP

I saw an article that suggested that the date of May 1948 was mathematically proveable from bible prophecy. Here is the article:

http://members.aol.com/chursey/bibldate.htm

Has anyone written a rebuttal article that you could point me to? I have a feeling there is a lot of stretching to get the math to fit.

Thanks...

rickP

No takers? Still hoping for a reference...

cpickett

I'm no bibal scholar, so I can't give you information on the biblical side of it, but to me it sounds much like the whole "Bible Code" thing a few years back. Finding evidence to coincide with your pre-conceived notions.

But his calculations on the converison are wrong, in order to convert from a 360 day year, you need to use 365.2422 instead of 365.25, because of the way leap years work. (not all years ending in 00 are leap years, I believe it is the ones that aren't divisible by 4).

So the supposed number of days is 907,200, with his conversion this gives you 2483.78 years, with the true one it gives 2483.83 years, not a huge margin of error, but enough for about 18 days difference.

That is the most glaring thing I saw, but hopefully this will get the thread started for more informed people to give their opinions.

rlogan

I guess you just pick whatever verses and convoluted reasoning you can until you come up with 1948.

This is too wretched to even pay attention to for the most part. But right off the bat:

"In 606 BC, the nation of Babylon was appointed by God to conquer and overthrow the Israelites."

Well, I'd say 606 was just the date this guy needed for his calculations. Here is a bit on the history of the two kingdoms:

Jewish Virtual Library

If you do word searches for "one", "two", "three", "hundred", "thousand" etc. you get hundreds of verses to choose from in constructing some stupid relationship between 1948 and any other arbitrary number.

Heurismus

I'm not ready for a full academic analysis, but I am sure that using similar calculations any date can be extrapolated.
I'll work on my birthdate if you want, not promising a rush however, but to find my birthdate in there or not could answer a few questions. I'll have to start perhaps with 'Ham'. He's close enough to stretch some prophesy out, or not as the case may be.