Pmarra

Dear Sir or Madam,

The purpose of this letter is to draw your attention to a new enlightening interpretation of the Bible.

Very little is known about the history of the Bible and its transmission from ancient to present times. The first five books of the Bible were originally written in Hebrew. The Jews call them the “Torah�, whereas the Christians call them the “Pentateuch�. All the copies of the original text of the first five books are identical, with rare exceptions, not only from the first to the last word, but also from the first to the last letter. This “miraculous� precision in the transcription was most certainly favoured by the fact that the original text was initially made up of one long “word�, a “word� which after many centuries was broken down into its present words.

By means of a specific analysis and by applying the relative numeric value to each letter of the text, it is possible to demonstrate that an Intelligence - infinitely superior to human beings – transmitted to divinely inspired scribes the exact sequence of the letters contained in the first five books of the Bible. For believers this infinite Intelligence is called God. For non-believers it remains an inexplicable mystery.

Does the Bible have a title? The name Bible does not represent the “title� of the work, in that the word Bible derives from the Greek words “ta biblia�, which literally mean “the little scrolls�. One of the most important discoveries of my book concerns the title of the Bible. In the Hebrew language its true title is “BaRosh Yitbarê Elohim�, which can be translated into English as “In the head God will create Himself� or “In the mind God will create Himself�.

Yours faithfully,
Paolo Marra

pharoah

You're wasting your time with this apporoach. Arguments for divine inspiration based on numerology or codes are a dead-end street.

mindovermyth

Pmarra,

Does your daytime job consist of selling snow to escimoes?

Jack the Bodiless

Copies of the "original texts" are all we have. So you're saying that all of them are identical, except for the ones that are not?

There are many discrepancies between the Masoretic text and the Septuagint, which more closely resembles the Samaritan texts. For instance, the people in the genealogies lived longer in the Septuagint/Samaritan version, which radically alters Biblical dating attempts. And the Dead Sea Scrolls contain a mismash of both versions.

Pmarra

the answer to your criticisms is already present in my website

Unfortunately, in the last few centuries, especially since the beginning of the period of the Enlightenment, a proper humble approach towards the Bible has become more and more rare. Indeed some scholars have actually started to doubt the Divine Word instead of admitting their incapability in understanding It, and have hypothesized that
this Word is human and not Divine (although obviously written in human language).
Ever since then, a school of researchers has come forth

with their own documentary hypothesis and historical-critical method

and have tried to trace back the origin of the Biblical text by sacred authors, assuming that the book of the Jews has purely human origins, just like any other book (even if the foundation for this reasoning has yet to be proved). In other words, the followers of this documentary hypothesis assumed that the Bible was only the word of man, and it is on this that they have drawn their conclusions.

The first of these researchers was a certain J. Astruc (1684-1766), doctor of Louis XIV (the famous Sun King),

who, towards the end of the 18th century, observed the use of different Divine Names (Adonay, Elohim) and advanced the hypothesis of the existence of different authors and sources in the Pentateuch. Thus, he became the pioneer of that literary criticism that later many other researchers would have applied to the whole Bible. However, without being fundamentalist, and while on one hand, we respect the work of these scholars

who try to understand the origins of the Holy Scripture using rather approximate methods;

on the other hand, we want to demonstrate its supernatural Origin

by using mathematics, which is the only exact science par excellence.

By so doing we will not offend the intelligence of anyone, not even that of non-believers, because mathematics is well-known for its procedure which uses rigorously logical-deductive methods and guarantees results of absolute validity, once the axioms of departure are fixed. It is really thanks to the universal characteristics of mathematics that allow it to be applied to various different sciences

which are definitely less exact:

textual criticism,

archaeology, biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, engineering, economy, statistics, etc. Mathematics provides all the procedures of calculation which are indispensable to be able to quantitatively face any scientific problem. We will make some demonstrations that will be added to those already made on page 60 regarding the presence of equidistant letter sequences (ELS) in the Bible, which evidently have a Supernatural Origin. The method we will use is not arbitrary and does not consist of a technique that allows you to find "what you wish to discover"; it is contrary to what the sceptics say superficially. In order to convince oneself immediately, it’s enough to use this method with any other ancient text which is not biblical. In any case, we will try to limit ourselves to a mere appendix and we will prove all this by making only two demonstrations:

• THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION shows that with two simple multiplications and a division we are able “to discover� a value of the Pi hidden inside the First Verse of Genesis which is so precise in comparison to the value known at biblical times,

that it allows us to exclude any human intervention in its "insertion".

• THE SECOND DEMONSTRATION shows that

the Divine Name Elohim has numerical proprieties

which are absolutely unique

and which can be discovered only with the help of the computer. Thus, the exact sequence of the five letters that make up this Name could not have been guessed by pure chance by any "human sacred author of holy books" of the biblical époque.

These demonstrations will thus give those people who are intellectually “honest� but who doubt in the existence of the Numerical Biblical Language (or consider the analysis misleading), the opportunity to change their minds definitely.

Moreover, we must point out immediately that it is not at all restrictive if we linger over the numerical analysis of the Biblical first verse. In fact the name Elohim appears throughout the Holy Scripture with a dominating role, as one of the Names of God, and other incredible peculiarities similar to the Biblical Pi are widespread throughout the Holy Text.

gregor

I don't know what the title of the Bible is. However, just inside the front cover it reads:

"This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of the characters to any historical persons or any similarity of acts to historic events is purely coincidental."

Pmarra

The discovery of the title of the Bible is an extraordinary event.

It challenges 3500 years of theological interpretation.

Usually, a good title can summarise a whole book. What then, if God Himself chose this title? Wouldn't it make us think?

I invite you not to easily dismiss my discovery.

You may check it with an expert in the Hebrew language.
Regards,
Paolo

Toto

The home page referred to: http://www.logonomics.it/

The penultimate post from the originator of this thread is copied from http://www.logonomics.it/Prove/Allegato_ING.pdf

So why is Pi elsewhere in the Bible approximated to 3, if there is this amazing precision in the first verse of Genesis?

And should I move this thread now or wait a bit?

Pmarra

the answer is simple

this amazing precision of Pi is for our times

a lot of other amazing things are for our times

Beth Phillips

Pmarra,

Gematria, notarikon, temurah, atbash, acrostic, anastrophe, epanastrophe, are all different kinds of paronomasia found in the bible...for a nice pithy summary see: http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/OTeSources/02-Exodus/Text/Articles/Beitzel-Ex314-Name-TJ.htm

Literary Creativity does not, in any way, 'prove' divine origin, no more than a well prepared exegesis of a precedent text 'proves prophecy', e.g., the presence in the New Testament of so called 'fulfilled prophecies' from Isaiah, is just 'good scholarship' and/or 'a source based narrative sequel '. Nothing has been 'fulfilled' except an adherance to a particular literary style.

Beth

p.s. These things do, however, make for a very interesting research project: http://www.fireonthewateronline.com