Voice of reason

Anyone know of this? Here is an article I found about this what is the explanation for this number pattern is it coincedence or is it a misleading magic trick of sorts?

IS GOD A MATHEMATICIAN?

By Keith Newman.
The authenticity of the Holy Bible has been attacked at regular intervals by athiests and theologians alike but none have explained away the mathematical seal beneath its surface.

It would seem the divine hand has moved to prevent counterfeiting in the pages of the Bible in a similar manner to the line that runs through paper money. Bible numerics appears to be God's watermark of authenticity.

Vital research on this numeric seal was completed by a native of the world's most renowned atheistic nation, Russia. Dr Ivan Panin was born in Russia on Dec 12, 1855. As a young man he was an active nihilist and participated in plots against the Czar and his government. He was a mathematical genius who died a Harvard scholar and a citizen of the United States in 1942.

Panin was exiled from Russia. After spending a number of years studying in Germany he went to the United States where he became an outstanding lecturer on literary criticism.

Panin was known as a firm agnostic - so well known that when he discarded his agnosticism and accepted the Christian faith, the newspapers carried headlines telling of his conversion.

It was in 1890 that Dr Panin made the discovery of the mathematical structure underlining the vocabulary of the Greek New Testament. He was casually reading the first verse of the gospel of John in the Greek: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and the Word was God...".

Dr Panin was curious as to why the Greek word for "the"' preceeded the word "God"' in one case and not the other. In examining the text he became aware of a number relationship. This was the first of the discoveries that led to his conversion and uncovered the extensive numeric code.

The rest of this article can be found at this website:

http://www.wordworx.co.nz/panin.html

uncool

First thing: 7´s always appear everywhere in mystical things - 7´s are story-numbers.
Second: Many of these examples happen in the same books (Genesis with the 7´s, Revelations with the 9´s, etc.), This invalidates the excuse about 33 people and 1500 years.
Third: This just happens to happen, I think - People just notice these patterns. If he had predicted anything like it beforehand, then I would have been impressed. However, he only saw it afterwards. If he can make a prediction from it, then I´d look into it.
Fourth:Silence as a response doesn´t mean diddlysquat. I´m guessing these guys were just thinking "Why respond to the weirdo idiot?"
Fifth: How do you know another god didn´t do it on purpose to test the faith of their followers?
-Uncool-

Dean Anderson

this site points out some of the flaws in Panin's theory, particularly on this page that demonstrates that his methodology was basically fraudulent (although to be fair it may have been self-deception rather than deliberate fraud).

S.C.Carlson

It is not unusual that the very first victim of such frauds is the fraudster himself.

Toto

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