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APO:Genesis 1:1 Computer verification of a Miracle

   The Bible begins with:

"IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH".

   The number of words, in this one verse, in the original Hebrew
(which was the language of the Old Testament) is SEVEN words.These
SEVEN words have 28 letters (4x7). These 28 letters are divided like
this: The first three words (containing the subject and predicate of
the sentence -"In the beginning God created"-) have 14 letters (2x7);
the last four words (containing the object of the sentence -"the
heavens and the earth"-) also have 14 letters (2x7). The last four
words are thus subdivided: The fourth and fifth words (Containing one
object -"the heavens"-) have SEVEN letters (7); the sixth and SEVENth
words (containing the the second object -"and the earth"-) also have
SEVEN letters (7). In relation to the importance of the words,
themselves, the 28 letters are thus divided: The three leading words
GOD. the subject, heaven, earth the two objects have 14 letters (2x7);
the four words have also 14 (2x7).

   The Hebrew language was unique in that it did not have a character
or set of characters to represent numbers such as our present 1, 2,3,
etc. Instead, the Hebrew language made use of the letters of the
alphabet; so that the first letter of the alphabet stands for 1, the
second for 2, the third for 3, etc., until the 11th letter represented
20, the twelfth letter 20, etc through 800. (The Greek language also
had this particular feature). Thus each letter has a numeric value.
Thus each word can be given a value by adding the cumulative total
value of each of its letters.

   The numeric value of the first, middle, and last letters of this
sentence is 133 (19x7), while the numeric value of the first and last
letters of all seven words in this verse is 1393 (199x7). The first and
last letters of the first and last words have 497 (71x7); the remaining
words (between the first and last) have 896 (2x2x2x2x2x2x2x7). We break
this amount down due to the factors being SEVEN and TWO taken as a
factor SEVEN times. The three important nouns, God, heaven, earth, have
14 letters (2x7). The numeric value is 777 (111x7). The one verb,
created has 203 (29x7).

   In this verse of only SEVEN words there are some repetitions. The
untranslatable particle ETH occurs twice and the article THE also
occurs twice. The numeric value of these repetitions is 406 (58x7).

   This whole sequence should be referenced through Hebrews 13:8 where
it says that God is the "same yesterday, today and tommorrow" and where
God, Himself answers Moses and tells Moses that He is the "I AM",
meaning that he was before all things and will be forever the same. We
then conclude that (1) if God is the same at all times and, by His own
word, does not change, then the numeric phenomena, briefly shown above,
should be a measure of whether God wrote the remainder of Genesis, or
the Books of Exodus, or Jonah, or any other Old Testament phrase or
book and (2) It would also hold true for the New Testament, even though
the New Testament was written in Greek, the phenomena should hold true
in IDENTICAL patterns and finally (3) We can also use the progressions
of numerics as a test of other text that have been claimed as
revelations from God.

   If the language of the ORIGINAL text is not Greek or Hebrew or
Chaldean, then sufficient kinds of the numeric structures will be
evident in as much as the language will permit. We ask that you take
any of these text and test them against these structures. If they
contain any multiple of the numerics shown here, we would like to have
you communicate with us by directing a copy of the text, source of the
text, and your name, address, phone information.

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