Bible Codes in Peshitta

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Shlama Steve,

I think you have misunderstood me in your quote of me above,

I don't subscribe to the idea that "Quote:
bible codes already have all history encoded in them ".

-I say I don't subscribe to that idea.

My post to Shushan about Bible prophecy was just that; I was not equating

"ALL Biblical prophesy with statistical analysis of the Peshitta New Testament."

I don't know how you arrive at that conclusion. I was simply establishing that God knows the future and has revealed it to men by prophecy. Shushan had said she didn't believe in that .


Yet you respond with:

Here, you equate ALL Biblical prophesy with statistical analysis of the Peshitta New Testament.

What could you be thinking here ?
What is your problem, Steve ?

I never even intimated such an idea.

As to the existence of codes, you have already admitted you believe they exist in the Torah.

So what's the problem with the idea that they exist in The Peshitta ?

Is that a heresy ?

If you want to verify them, get some software like Codefinder and test them for yourself.

Pr 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Burkhtha,

Dave

Hi Dave:
Any codes that you find in the Peshitta New Testament are random fluctuations of the text. Any text of similar length will show random levels of selected words. You have wrongly assumed that because they do appear in the TaNaK that they also appear in the Peshitta New Testament.

Also, Aramaic favours the use of certain letters in amounts that may tend to make certain words or "names" appear in a statistical search, more than in a control text. Perhaps this is what you are actually seeing.

It is incorrect to lump the Hebrew Bible and the Peshitta New Testament together and use the term Bible Codes to define both. They are two very separate studies.

When I refer to Bible Codes, personally I am referring to simple, countable words such as TORAH in Genesis 1:1-5 at a 50 ELS. The significance of 50 is "jubilee/setting free" and "sh'vuot/pentecost". This is the true "watermark".

Since there is always a random element, I restrict myself to "obvious watermarks". Also, I understand that these watermarks are there fore a purpose, and that is to be a spiritual and literary witness to the untampered text. They are not there for any purpose that would contradict what the text of the Bible literally teaches or warns about, such as divination. The so-called science of Bible Codes research is dominated by those that ignore such warnings.

I don't know when I decided this precisely, but some time ago I decided not to pursue New Testament Peshitta Codes. My deep desire is to understanding the actual text itself. I'm motivated by the need to change the Greek New Testament tradition that dominates Western Christianity. I'm finding the Khabouris Codex very interesting. :o)

I keep my eyes and ears open and I know that if there were ELS 50's of TORAH or YESHUA at the beginning of any New Testament book they would most certainly be published by now. Where are they, Dave?

In Christ,
Stephen Silver