PROOF BIBLE IS GOD'S BOOK

Now that you know, it is now time to consider more evidence.

We will let the enemy hang himself and reveal his true character. 

We will let the messages of these so-called visitors from other planets speak for themselves, thus reveal their true identity.  By comparing their testimony with the Bible, they will condemn themselves.

            THE WITNESS OF MATHEMATICS           

The witness of mathematics about a divine Creator is the strongest of witnesses, but the proof is so vast, that we can only sample a tiny fraction of the evidence available.  If the reader is further interested, whole books have been written on this subject.

THE NUMBER SEVEN IN NATURE:

The number 7 (symbolic of perfection) has been identified by

God as His number from the time of creation, while six (symbolic of imperfection and man's number, for man was created on the sixth day) has been Satan's number from the time he sinned.  We will explore the number seven as seen in nature and in the Bible.  For it is God's stamp or proof authenticating His works in the universe.  But other numbers are also seen.  Sometimes one number pattern is dominant, and at other times it is another.  The following material as taken from a small book Mathematics Prove Holy Scriptures, by Karl Sabiers, which may no longer be available. 

"The number system of God is stamped upon all His works.  All departments of nature are based on a system of mathematics--great mathematical laws govern the activities of the entire universe.

"For instance, in the sphere of light, there are exactly seven colors.  The seven colors merged together form light.  In the sphere of music there are exactly seven whole tones in the scale, while every eighth note begins a new octave and is merely a repetition of the first note.  The seven colors correspond to the seven notes in music, and sounds that harmonize correspond with colors that harmonize, while discords in color correspond with discords in music.

"The human body is completely renewed or changed every seven years.  Every part of the body is constantly throwing off old effete matter, and constantly receiving deposits of new and living matter.  In seven years the whole structure is altered down to the minutest particles and becomes essentially a new body.  In certain diseases, the seventh, fourteenth, and twenty-first are the critical days.  Man's pulse beats slower every seventh day whether he is sick or well.  In diseases resulting from physical exhaustion, the pulse (also) changes every seventh day.  With the human being the period of gestation is 280 days (7X40).  Indeed, seven is stamped upon physiology.  Is it not significant that God ordained every seventh day to be a day of rest, and that He declared man's years to be "Three score and ten" (7X10)?

"With animals, the period of gestation of the mouse is 21 (7X3) days.  The hare and rat 28 (7X4) days.  The cat 56 (7X8) days.  The dog 63 (7X9) days.  The lion 98 (7X14) days.  The sheep 147 (7X21) days.  With birds the incubation of the common hen is 21 (7X3) days.  The duck 28 (7X4) days. 

"The Creator's law of design for the snow flakes is the number six.  All snowflakes are different, yet they are all alike with either six points or six sides.

"The number 11 as well as seven is stamped on music.  The number of vibrations in a second for each note is a multiple of eleven, and the difference in the number vibrations between each note is also a multiple of eleven.  For example, the difference between Do and Re is 33, between Fa and Sol 44, always a multiple of eleven.

"The Science of Botany reveals that the different sections of flowers arranged according to particular numbers and their multiples.  For example the basic number of the buttercup is five.  There are 5 sepals in the calyx, 5 petals in the corolla, 5 carpels in the pistil, 15, 20, 25, or some other number which is exactly so many fives of stamens in the androecium.  Similarly, the basic number of the daffodil is 3, that of the mignonette 4, the wild rose 5, etc.  Thus God stamps His creation with a mathematical pattern.

"In Chemistry no two substances can unite without observing definite mathematical proportions.  The planets of the heavens are governed according to mathematical laws.  Indeed, nature does not operate by chance, but by design.  God's number system is found throughout the universe much more extensively than is commonly supposed.  Volumes could be devoted to showing design in nature.  God is the Great Numberer and Mathematician of all creation.  Every department of nature bears His mathematical signature.

"'He made the stars...And God set them in the firmament of the heaven.'" Gen. 1:16,17  'He counteth the number of the stars.' Ps. 147:4

“He 'bringeth out their host by number.' Isa. 40:26

“God 'hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out the heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance.' Isa. 40:17

"If God placed the stars in their proper order, and numbered them, and measured the waters and weighed the mountains, is it surprising or incredibile that He has placed the words and letters of His book in exact order, and numbered them, and guided them into combinations of numbers?

"The same God who created the universe and was careful to weave designs and intricate patterns into the smallest detail of creation, has taken the same care with His Word.  He has placed the same peculiarity in both.

"'The very hairs of your head are all numbered' (counted) Matt. 10:30.

"The word 'numbered' in Greek is 'arithmeo' the very word from which our English word 'Arithmetic' is derived.  If God counts the very hairs of our heads, is it strange that He has counted the words and letters of His Scripture?" (Mathematics Prove Holy Scripture, Karl Sabiers, pp 105-108)

THE WITNESS OF SCRIPTURE

NUMERICAL SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE:

Now it is time to look at a fantastically complex organization of the number seven and multiples of 7 as found in the Bible.  Its complexity is so overwhelming as to be totally unexplainable, except as something that could have come only from the mind of an infinite God. Because the evolutionist lacks hard evidence for their theories, in order to refute the creation account, they have had to attack the credibility of the Scripture.  This is unfortunate for them, for God has provided scientific, mathematical proof from the Scripture itself that this is the Word of God, proof which it is impossible to legitimately argue against. 

God designed into the original Old Testament Scripture written in Hebrew, and into the New Testament written in Greek, a mathematical pattern which would have been utterly impossible for any human to have conceived or designed.  God has provided in the Bible, incontrovertible proof that He is who He says He is, and that the Bible is His Word to humankind.  As a consequence, the creation account as recorded in the book of Genesis cannot be refuted or argued away.

A most amazing discovery about the Scriptures was found in 1882 by a young Russian immigrant by the name of Ivan Panin.  What he found is so complex and astounding that critics of the Bible, after examining the evidence were left without any recourse but to acknowledge that the Bible could only be the inspired Word of God, and that the creation account in Genesis is true to the letter.

In his youth, Ivan was converted and experienced the saving power of Jesus Christ, after being an avowed atheist.  Sometime after his conversion, he discovered (led by the providence of God) in the Scriptures a mathematical pattern which changed the direction the rest of his life would take.  From the time of that discovery, for over 60 years, Ivan used every working moment to painstakingly write out over 43,000 pages of data, proving his discovery of an intricate matrix revolving around the number 7 and prime factors of 7.  This little known work of Panin was compiled and written in the small book mentioned above, Mathematics Prove Holy Scriptures, written by Karl Sabiers. 

What we now share with the reader was information gleaned from the book and put into a tract -- The Holy Bible--Wholly True, by Pratney, Last Days Ministry, Box 40, Lindale, Texas.  Ivan also translated the New Testament using this pattern which was printed by the Oxford Press in England, but which is no longer available.

"Panin became one of the top ten mathematicians in the United States, taught in universities, and read seven languages fluently (he knew up to fourteen).  Panin began to study the Scriptures as a Christian, but knowing Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, he began to read them in the original languages.  Now both Hebrew and Greek are unique languages.  They are the only two languages in history that do not have a number system.  In other words, they do not use special symbols for their numbers (like our Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, etc.) but use instead the letters of their alphabets to represent numbers...each letter is actually used as a number.

"Aware of the numerical values of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets, Panin experimented one day by replacing the letters with their corresponding numbers in Scripture.  Here is Panin...a mathematical genius, a Hebrew and Greek scholar, and he loves playing with numbers.  Suddenly, his trained mind saw a mathematical pattern!  As he studied more intensely, his excitement grew.  A few short hours of work had him utterly amazed.  The verses he had studied bore unmistakable evidence of an elaborate mathematical pattern, far beyond random chance, or human ability to construct.  This discovery marked the turning point in His career, and from that time until His death in 1942, he devoted his entire life to the study of Bible numerics.

"He showed, first of all, that the Bible, in its original language, is a skillfully designed product of a mathematical mastermind--far beyond any human possibility of deliberate structuring.  He later supplied a representative of the NOBEL RESEARCH FOUNDATION with over 43,000 sheets of his studies accompanied by his statement that this was his evidence that the Bible was the Word of God.  Their reply was, 'as far as our investigation has proceeded...we find the evidence overwhelmingly in favor of such a statement.'  He then issued A CHALLENGE throughout leading newspapers of the world to offer a 'natural explanation' or refute the facts; not a single person has been able to do so.

"What He Found:  'The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined 7 TIMES.'  Ps. 123:6. (Emphasis supplied).  "Panin found that patterns of prime numbers, such as 11, 13, 17, and 23, but ESPECIALLY 7, were found in great clusters.  He would add up the sum of all numerical values for different words, sentences, paragraphs, passages, and whole books, and he found the same patterns in each of these forms!  He found that the number of words in a vocabulary divides by 7.  The number of proper names, both male and female divides by 7.  The number of words that begin with a vowel divides by 7, likewise the number of words that begin with a consonant.  The number of letters in a vocabulary divides by 7, and those letters, those that are vowels and those that are consonants also divide by 7.  Words that occurred more than once divide by 7, and also words that appeared only once!  The number of nouns is divisible by 7, also the words that are not.  Even the number of words beginning with each letter of the alphabet!  And on and on...Panin only stayed on a passage long enough to confirm beyond reasonable doubt the statistical evidence for supernatural design.  But he stated that the longer you stayed on one, it would continue to yield further and further evidences of patterns until the mind reeled!!

"Some Examples:  Here is an example from the Old Testament.  Just the very first sentence in the Bible.  'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.'  Gen. 1:1.  That's the way it comes out in English; in Hebrew it's exactly 7 words, 28 (4X7) letters.  There are 3 nouns (God, heavens, and earth).  Taking the letters of these, substituting their number equivalents and adding them up, you get a combined total of 777 (111X7)!  There is one Hebrew verb--created.  Its total numerical value is 203 (29X7).  The first three words contain the subject with exactly 14 (2X7) letters, likewise the other four are the object with exactly 14 letters.  The Hebrew words for the two objects (heaven and earth) each have 7 letters.  The value for the first, middle, and last letters in the sentence is 133 (19X7).  The numeric value for the first and last words in the sentence is 1393 (199X7); the value of the first and last letters of the verse is 497 (71X7).  The value of the first and last letters of each of the words between is 896 (128X7).  And so on, and so on....in this verse alone there are 30 different features of 7.  I have listed only 11 of them!  The chance of this happening accidentally is 1 in 33,000,000,000,000 (33 trillion).

"And now an example from the New Testament: Matthew 1:1-11.  The vocabulary has 49 words (7X7). 28 words begin with a vowel (4X7), the remaining 21 with a consonant (3X7).  7 end with a vowel, 42 with a consonant (6X7).  The 49 words have 266 letters (38X7).  Out of the 266 letters, 140 are vowels (20X7).  126 are consonants (18X7).  Also, of these 49 words, 14 occur only once (2X7), 35 occurred more than once (5X7), 42 (6X7) are nouns, 7 are not.  These remaining common nouns have exactly 49 letters (7X7).  Male names occur in all 56 times (8X7).  The names of only 3 women appear in the passage, and the Greek letters of their names add up to 14 exactly. Panin said it would have taken Matthew several months, working 8 hours a day to construct the genealogy, even if it were possible.  But the names were chosen BEFORE Matthew was born!

"One (Divine) Author; The whole Bible is like this.  I am just taking one small chunk of it and doing it in detail.  Every paragraph, passage and book in the Bible can be shown to be constructed in the same marvelous way.  What kind of fantastic collaboration between the disciples could have produced this structure without computers?  How could mere fishermen and tax-collectors produce this kind of incredible structuring and design?  What is crazy, is that Mark is a Roman, Luke a Greek, and Matthew a Jew, but they all wrote with the same pattern.  Each one wrote with their own unique flavor.  Mark's flavor is different, but the pattern is the same right through!  So who wrote it?  One Mind, one author--one God--many different writers, but one Writer.  Can you imagine what kind of Mind would do this and not even care if you ever found out?!  What I want you to see is how smart God is!  These are not just words, its an incredible mathematical pattern.  It dances with its own poetry in mathematics.  A computer would go into raptures over this!  It's like a building where every piece joins perfectly into each other.  And what is wild, is you can't pull even one word out without damaging the whole pattern, so the Bible carries within itself, a self-checking, self-verifying protection factor.  If a person comes along and says I don't like this one, the whole pattern falls apart.  This cannot be found in any other religious 'holy book in the world!"

THE WITNESS OF SCRIPTURAL WORD STRUCTURE

The Grants Pass Courier of Friday November 24, 1995 Had an account of recent findings about the Bible that is similar to Panin's findings about numerical word patterns, except that the findings deal more with mathematical patterns of words rather than the number equivalent of their letters.  The article was written by AP religion writer, David Briggs.

"In a mystifying Mathematical and biblical puzzle, researchers have found hidden word patterns in Genesis that suggest the Old Testament book is the work of a divine author.

"By treating the text as an unbroken string of letters, and selecting sequences of equally spaced letters, three mathematicians discovered 300 hidden pairs of Hebrew words with related meanings in close proximity to one another.  Some of the words involved people who lived and events that occurred long after the Torah was written.

“The odds of the words occurring by chance?  Less than one in 50 quadrillion, according to an article by Jeffrey Satinover in the October issue of Bible Review.

"In the Bible Review article, Satinover said the implications are for individuals to decide, but the capacity to embed so many meaningfully related, randomly selected word pairs in the text with a coherent surface meaning is beyond the capacity of any human being.

"'I guess the bottom line is, if the research holds up and no flaw is found in the methodology, then I think the implication is clear that the authorship of Genesis is not human.' Satinover said in an interview.

"In their research, Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg of Jerusalem College of Technology, and the Hebrew University selected, at random, 300 pairs of Hebrew words with related meanings. 

"Then by treating Genesis as a long cryptographic string of letters with no spaces between the words, they searched for the words hidden in the text in what they called equidistant letter sequences, with the same number of letters between each of the letters of the desired word."

THE WITNESS OF WORD POWER

There is POWER in the Word of God as shown by the following incident described in a book, Buried Evidence, by George Burnside, pp. 54-57.

"Dr. Jerome Stolwell, a scientist renowned for his work on devices for the destruction of mankind, working in conjunction with four other scientists in an experiment to discover the wave length of the brain, found a channel of wave lengths in such a wide range that each individual brain is further separated from other brains as there is difference between finger prints!

"What happens in the brain the moment of transition from life to death?  In answering this question, these scientists chose a lady who was still alert in mind, but was on the verge of death in a research hospital.  They arranged a pickup device in her room and also a tiny microphone the size of a quarter by her pillow so they could hear if she had anything to say.  In an adjoining room these five hardened atheistic scientists had placed their instruments, prepared to register and record what transpired.

"Their measuring device (a milliampere gauge) had a needle which pointed to 0 in the center of the scale.  To the right the scale was calibrated to 500 milliamperes Positive, to the left 500 milliampere points Negative.  This identical device had previously registered the POWER used by a 50,000 watt broadcasting station in sending a message around the world at 9 points on the Positive side.

"Dr. Stolwell reports: 'As the last moments of this lady's life arrived, she began to pray and praise the Lord.  She asked Him to be merciful to those who had despitefully used her.  Then she reaffirmed her faith in God, telling Him she knew He was the only POWER, that He had always been and would always be the LIVING POWER.  She told Him how much she loved Him.

"'We scientists had been so engrossed with the woman's prayer that we had forgotten our experiment.  We looked at each other and saw tears flowing down atheistic, scientific faces.  I had not shed tears since I was a child.

"'Suddenly we heard a clicking sound on our forgotten instrument.  We looked, and the needle was trying to go higher than 500 point positive terminal, only to bounce against the 500 point positive post.  By actual instrumentation we had recorded that the brain of a woman alone and dying, in communication with God had registered more than 55 times the POWER used by a 50,000 watt broadcasting station in sending a message around the world.

"'After this we decided to try a case very much unlike the first one.  We chose a man lying in the research hospital, stricken with a deadly social disease.  His brain had become atrophied to the point of death.  He was practically a maniac.

"'After we had set up our instruments, we arranged for one of the nurses to antagonize the man.  Through her wiles she attracted his interest in her, and then suddenly told him she didn't want to have anything more to do with him.  He began to verbally abuse her and the needle began to register on the Negative side.  Then he cursed her and took the name of God in vain.  The needle suddenly clicked back and forth against the 500 Negative post!

"'By actual instrumentation we had registered what happened in the brain when that brain broke one of God's Ten Commandments.  'Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.' Ex. 20:7.

"'We had established by instrumentation the Positive POWER of God and the Negative POWER of the adversary.  We had found that beneficial truth is Positive and that non-beneficial things, covered by the 'Thou shalt nots' of the Ten Commandments, are Negative in varying degrees.

"'If we scientists can record these things, I believe with all my heart that the Lord God can keep a record of our thoughts!  He has more POWER than we have, and is a better Record Keeper than any of us on this earth....

"'It is the presence of God in us that gives us POWER of whose magnitude we have no conception! I am now a scientist who loves the Lord with all my heart, and mind, and soul, and might! I want you to pray for me, that I will always think and say and do the things a Positive God wants....and nothing according to the wishes of a Negative adversary, who kept me blinded and bound so many years.'"

Having examined irrefutable proof that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and using it as our sole standard by which to measure the enemy's delusions, we can proceed in confidence to compare what is claimed about UFO's and ET's with God's Infallible Word, and let the evidence speak for itself.

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