hagiograph

http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/

Pmarra

Every letter of almost any alphabet in the world can be linked to numerical values, starting from units and ending with tens and hundreds. In ancient times this was a very common method for referring to quantities; for example, let's think about dates written in Roman Numerals.
Actually it is Hebrew that, given the fact it does not use Arabic numbers, has always used the letters of the alphabet as a numerical value.
Therefore, each sequence of letters, each word, can also be read as a number which is the sum of the numerical values of the letters that make the word. In the Holy Scripture these numbers acquire a remarkable importance; as these numbers talk, they are a true numerical language.

The method that I 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.
In order to convince oneself immediately, it’s enough to use this method with any other ancient text which is not biblical.

Blackcat

Newsflash: Bullshit is a special word as well. No other word is spelt exactly the same way.

All you've proved is that, when transcribed to a numerical representation and then arbitrarily operated on by a numerical function, the word Elohim has some kind of special meaning.

Who decided to take three letters at a time?

Why take three letters at a time?

Why not take two, or four, letters at a time?

Why use addition? There's lots of other operations that can be performed, but conveniently enough they're not investigated.

What's wrong with using the values of the letters in the word Elohim as parameters to a second order differential equation?

Why did God get the value of Pi wrong?

You know, it's just struck me how this is a mathematical equivalent of quote mining...

Pmarra

Your observations are interesting

but I want to show you that my reasonings are not arbitrary

the number 136 is the sixteenth triangular number

and it is the sum of 36, 45, 55,
3 consecutive triangular numbers, and these are precisely the eighth, the ninth and the tenth triangular numbers

The fact that the sum of three consecutive triangular numbers is in turn a triangular number,

is extremely rare, and I have already shown this

Since Hebrew has always used the letters of the alphabet as a numerical value

if I want to find a word that represents this numerical rarity I have an only possibility

Blackcat

Thank you for not answering my questions. Until you answer them, I will continue to view your method of taking three letters at a time and adding them up as arbitrary, and without foundation.

-RRH-

But answer this honestly. If you hadn't got 136 out of Elophim, would you have said, "Oh well, I guess there's nothing unique about Elophim." Or would you have kept looking until you found something else "unique?"

How many transformations did you try before you hit upon the one that shows how unique Elophim is?

What if you had got 135 or 137?.

Pseudo-Deity

Using the infallible method of numerology, I have scientifically proven that Pmarra is evil.

Pmarra

I am sorry
but I don't agree

it is not arbitrary to say that the number 136 is extremely rare

it is really scientific to say instead that the number 136 is extremely rare

BioBeing

You seem to be implying that this method (what do you call it by the way, if it is not numerology?) is scientific... so lets play with that for a while.

What predictions does your method make? What testable hypothesis can we draw from it?

For example, it is my understanding that God has many names - El, Elohim, Yahweh, YHWH, Jehovah etc. Now, a really smart omnimax god would use the same code to make all his names come out the same, wouldn't he? I think so. So, if your theory is correct, when applied to YHWH it should give the same sort of triangle numbers, shouldn't it?

Does it?

If not - why not?



BTW - why do you refuse to answer why god got pi wrong? You keep skipping over this.

-RRH-

Well, sure, in the sense that there's only one of them. But what particular significance does it have?

Now, if you had got 439, should I still be impressed, because it's the sum of three consecutive primes, a sum of nine consecutive primes, and is itself a prime. Is 439 more unique or less unique than 136?