Thursday, August 29, 2019

Proof of Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures


Research shows that the Bible is literally filled with remarkable linguistic nuances and unexplainable “coincidences.” 

Prof. Haim Shore, from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has researched into the science behind these peculiar biblical intricacies. Described below are a small handful of his fascinating discoveries that relate to the question of divine inspiration of the Bible.

Let us state from the outset that Professor Shore is a self-described non-observant Jew. In an interview with Dr. Rivkah Lambert, Shore said of himself:
As a scientist, my only motivation was to reveal the truth, based on statistical analysis, based on real quantitative data. I have not tried to prove that the Torah is divine or any other such objective.
Here are a few of the coincidences Shore found in his research.

Letters in the Hebrew alphabet, like Roman numerals, have a numeric value. 




A word’s numeric value is the sum total of its letter values. For example, the total sum of the Hebrew word for pregnancy, heraion, is 271. This number is significant because it happens to be the median number of days for a pregnancy. On average, pregnancies last between 266-280 days. Shore suggests there is unique—and intended—significance in the early Hebrew word for pregnancy equaling the number of days for a pregnancy.

Another example: 
The Hebrew word for year is shanah. In the Hebrew calendar, a complete non-leap year is 355 days. What is the value for the word shanah? 355.

In biblical times, days were still customarily divided into 24-hour blocks. Midday and midnight occurred at the “sixth hour” of the day and night. Is there any significance behind these words?

Midday, tsaharaim, equals 345. Day, yom, equals 56. The value for midday divided by the value for day rounds to 6.
Midnight, neshef, equals 430. Night, lil, totals 70. The value for midnight divided by the value for night? Again, 6!
These are two completely separate sets of numbers—and they both equate to a rounded figure of 6!

Now compare day and night:
 In Jerusalem, the average daylight duration is longer than the night—about 51.8 percent for the day vs. 49.2 percent for the night. The value of the words for morning and day added together is 358. The value of the words for evening and night equals 347. To the nearest 10th of a percentage, the Hebrew words for morning and day represent the exact numerical percentage of time of average daylight. Likewise, with the evening and night, the dark is the corresponding numerical percentage.

Shore also found that the value of the words for colors—such as red (adom) and yellow (tsahov)—match up with their wave frequencies. 

That the value of the words for Earth, sun and moon correspond to the diameters of each of these celestial bodies—among other Hebrew planetary “coincidences.” (Such results are shown by logarithmic scale. For more on this, take a look at Shore’s short video here. He also explains the virtual impossibility—statistically—of these results happening by “chance.”)

How could the ancients have known? 

Typically, evolutionary scientists paint them as blundering simpletons grunting out primitive words. They especially like to downplay the complexity of Israel’s past compared to that of the nations around it. 

Where did this ancient mathematical linguistic precision come from? 
Even granting ancient Israelite society a high level of complexity and intellect, how humanly possible is it to have this level of intricacy underlying the “common” language? 

And remember, these are ancient biblical words, not some modern mathematical Hebrew synthesis. These are words that have been discovered on artifacts some 3,000 years old!

What about non-mathematical “coincidences”? 

The word ozen (ear) is another interesting Hebrew word. The Hebrew word for balance is ezun, which comes from the same root word. Today, we understand that our sense of balance comes from the mechanism in the ear. But this was only discovered at the end of the 19th century! Is it just coincidence that the biblical Hebrew words for ear and balance are directly connected? 

(See here for many more “modern” scientific discoveries that were actually already known—or divinely revealed?—in the pages of the Bible.)

Then there’s the human hand. 
This word is yad in Hebrew, and it adds up to 14. The are 14 finger bones in the human hand.

There are other nuances of the Hebrew language. Hebrew words can often be read forward and backward, with different meanings. Those meanings, obviously, get lost in translation.

 Shore gives several examples, one of which is from Genesis 6:8. 
This verse says, “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” “Grace” is actually the same word as Noah, inverted. Again, just coincidence? Or a special, added depth and richness to the language?

There are many stunning examples that could be given. (You’ll have to take a look at Professor Shore’s 326-page book for more information.) And his work is only half of it. 

There is another, related field of research known as Bible numerics—examining the precise mathematical layout of the Bible. This underlying numerical system was discovered and researched by Ivan Panin (1855–1942). Without going into detail, here is a quick example of the numerics behind the first verse of the Bible, Genesis 1:1. Specifically, regarding the use of sevens—a particularly significant divine number, the biblical number of “completion”—that feature in this verse.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
There are 7 Hebrew words. The number of letters in the verse is a multiple of 7. The verse is broken up into two main parts, both of which are a multiple of 7. The nouns add up to a multiple of 7. The single verb adds up to a multiple of 7. The three leading nouns (God, heaven, earth) add up to 777. The value of the first and last letters of all the words add up to a multiple of 7. Actually, 31 different features of the number 7 have been deduced just from this one verse—we’ve only listed 8 here (maybe we should have listed 7!).

Coincidence?

Shore—a scholarly, non-observant man—wrote the following about his research (emphasis added):
When I first obtained the new findings on my computer’s screen, I could not believe my eyes – it was so overwhelming! I ran around like a lion in a cage. I then ran and reran the program and still got exactly same results. It took me awhile to digest all these new findings and comprehend that these are all for real.
So why isn’t the research more widely known and discussed? In his book, Shore explains why it was never published in a scientific journal:
The reader may wonder why the statistical analyses in this book, including those in the current chapter, have not been submitted for publication in recognized and highly esteemed scientific journals, like Science or Nature.

The answer may be easily guessed:

No journal was willing to even consider reviewing (let alone publish) papers with claims, as displayed in this book. Open-mindedness to all facts of nature, a source of pride for many highly revered journals, ended when claims of religious flavor, no matter how scientifically corroborated, were involved. Therefore, as a result of responses received to preliminary enquiries, none of the statistical analyses displayed in this book have ever been submitted for review in peer-reviewed journals.
I can hardly blame editors who have refused even seeing a first draft of a paper. I might have decided likewise, had I not known better.
It’s troubling that our scientific editors and educators will only publish knowledge and discoveries suiting their own theories and agenda. That’s not science—that’s religion. And it’s quite literally a cover-up.

So the question remains for you, the reader, to decide: 

Are all of these elements of the biblical Hebrew language coincidental? 

Or proof that the Holy Book—as the Scriptures themselves state—is “God-breathed”? Can you know the answer? What about any other evidence, any other fields of research? History? Prophecy? Miracles? 

Copyright © 2019 Gerald R. Flurry, All Rights Reserved.

8 comments:

Tom Dick & Harry said...

There might be another reason for why it hasn't been publicized. My guess is that not only The Torah but also Na"ch would have these findings as the words of the prophets are divine. But Lehavdil in The New Testament there would probably not be such findings. That would not be very comfortable for the goyim.

Abe said...

This professor has a few things in common with
Louis Farrakhan.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Talks/numerology3.pdf

Dusiznies said...

4:21
That is a far stretch.... because they are both into numerology????

They are also both into the Bible????
And they both have "tushies"

Abe said...

Duz,

Not a stretch at all since numerology is a ludicrous.
It’s as absurd as the Bible codes. Both have been debunked. Farrakhan’s numerological beliefs are ludicrous. The good professor should reconsider his beliefs in numerology.

Dusiznies said...

7:18 Abe
It seems that you do not believe in our "mesorah"
The majority of the commentary of the Baal HaTurim on the Torah is Numerology ....the talmud in many places uses numerology .....
Numerology is part of Torah .secrets ...called סוד

The fact that Farrakhan ym"s utilizes it for his own corrupt purposes... means absolutely nothing .........and his attempt at numerology is in fact "ludicrous"
I know for a fact that Farrakhan eats potato knishes ... does that make the knish treif now??

Abe said...

DUS 1:54,

You’re right. I don’t believe in a mesorah that dignifies numerology twaddle. The Gemara also states that the sun revolves around the earth and posits belief in spontaneous generation. I can exploit numerology foolery to buttress whatever nonsense that fits my beliefs. Farrakhan can do it because numerology system is absurd. Who is to say that his numerology system is less absurd than Baal HaTurim? They’re both absurd, but that doesn’t take away anything from ancient talmidei chachomim.

Dusiznies said...

Abe
"mesorah" is not something "you believe in"
Mesorah means ...knowledge that's been handed over from generation to generation ....it's not a belief!
"mesorah" is what keeps Jews ... Jews .. even after being chased out of our homeland .....

I'll give you an example ... In the Torah itself it states that one must put on Tefillin...
It doesn't say what color, what shape, how many compartments and what should be inside....
Our "mesorah' ...is that tefilling should be square and its color should be black and that we have 4 compartments...
It's not a belief ... its "information" handed down generation to generation .....
and as observant Jews, who put on tefillin we make those tefillin according to mesorah ....
they in fact found tefillin in the Kumron caves ... and those tefillin look like the one we wear now ...

another example:
Jews even reform Jews use an Esrog with their lulav on Sukkot ...
yet nowhere in the entire Torah is it mentioned that פרי עץ חדש is in fact an Esrog!, Nowhere!
We know that from our "mesorah" .....father to son, son to son ...
Yes the Talmud looked for clues in the Torah to make sure that the Torah in fact meant the Esrog ...

Which brings me to your point that the Talmud states that the sun revolves around the Earth!
That talmud discussion is in Bava Basra 25 a& b and that opinion is in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua
true ...
But the Talmud in Pesachim 94b in a similar discussion actually states in the name of Rebbe Yehuda:
"their view (the view of the gentiles) is more logical than ours etc."
So to say the Talmud states: "that the sun revolves around the earth" without quoting the Talmud in Pesachim is either being ignorant of the discussions of the Talmud or being outright disingenuous !

Dusiznies said...

abe

Continued:
So let me tell those readers of mine that are not familiar with how the Talmud works very briefly:
The Oral Torah ....was actually meant to be oral and not written ...
in fact when the mishna was redacted by Rebbe Yehuda Ha'nasie (the one who states that in astronomy" the gentiles are more logical") ... most people knew the entire Mishnayois as we know it orally ....by heart
so when Rebbe Yehudah Ha'nasie wrote down the Mishan ..he wrote it cryptically because it was only meant as a reminder .. it was like cliff notes....
300 hundred years later ... people that weren't fluent in our oral Torah found contradictions within the Mishnayois itself ...
but for 300 years people knew the Oral Torah and knew that the reason one mishna states a halacha one way and in another tractate the other way, was because the situations in the stated mishnas were different ....
But then people forgot the situations ....

The Gemarrah or what we call the Talmud is the discussions and debates in the Yeshivois between the rabbis clarifying the different reasons why the mIshnayois seem to contradict ....

During those debates and discussions there were different views discussed and some of those view were later dismissed when they found the truth ....since the debates were for one purpose and one purpose only to seek the truth ...
that's why many times the Talmud will ask who the author of a particular Mishna was ...
that way once they knew the author they would know why that statement or halacha came about ..and that cleared up the contradictions ....
There are many discussions in the Talmud that are not relevant today and some prescriptions to ailments found in the Talmud could actually kill you today if followed ... any yeshivah student will tell you that ...
This is not the venue to go further ... but I hope you get my gist ...

Part of that "mesorah" is that we can interpret Torah on deeper levels ....
because learning Torah on a superficial level is missing fascinating knowledge
I'll illustrate by telling you a tale
There was once an old lady that would cry bitter tears when she read the story of how Joseph was thrown into a pit and sold as a slave by his own brothers ....
She felt very bad for Joseph and she wept ...
One year as she was reading the story... she kept going and didn't shed a tear ...
Her husband who found the whole thing amusing waited every year to see her burst out in tears ...
and now he was in shock ... she didn't care anymore? She didn't feel for Joseph anymore?
When he asked her what happened this year that she was stoic ...
she answered: Every year Joseph goes to meet his brothers and they throw him into the pit and sell him as a slave ... but this Joseph has no brains ...why doesn't he learn his lesson ...after all these years he should know not to go where there is danger, he should have learned that his brotheres hate him

So if you learn the parsha of Joseph and his brothers every year on the same level then you are like this old grandma, bit if you learn the parsha each year on a deeper level you learn that the story isn't just a story but a lesson in life,and a lesson about our own history where there are Jews that would sell their very own brothers down the drain ...

Some levels are kabbalistic ... and one of those levels is what is called gematriyah ... numerology .....