Use of numbers in the Bible and inerrancy

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[ May 07, 2006, 02:47 AM: Message edited by: rsr ]

 

Exactly right. Inerrancy
of the Holy Scriptures (God's Written
Word) is
a Faith Statement about the Bible
(AKA /also known as/ Axiom, Assumption).

The 'truth' one gets from those numbers,
depends a lot upon an individual's understanding
of mathematics. No understanding of
arithemetic precision and accuracy
can 'prove' (or 'disprove') the inerrancy
of the Bible.

 

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[ May 07, 2006, 02:46 AM: Message edited by: rsr ]

 

Here is a very good study of the use of numbers in the Ancient and near east. Dr. Pete does a good job I think. Any thoughts on this site? http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4027/numbers1.html

 

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[ May 13, 2006, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: rsr ]

 

You are welcome Mel. I'm not much into eschatology as yet. I've not had any university study especially on eschatology, except for the eschatological references on the particular book of the Bible that I may be studying. In my limited study of eschatology, I would say I lean toward Post Millennialism. Dr. Pete is very good about commenting upon any question or comment you may have. Just use the link to e-mail him. He really takes a lot of time and is very exhaustive in his replies to such e-mail. Grace and peace

 

JohnB,

Your very first reference to the question on
"numbers" was about their having been exact:
Quote:
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1. - e.g. the miraculous catch of 153 fish.
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The most important instance of exact numbers
was that in which God fulfilled 68 sets of Solar 7's on the exact day of Nisan 9, Palm Sunday,
the Day of Visitation (Luke 19:44); and yet also fulfilled 69 sets of Biblical 7's on Nisan 30
of AD 32. Passover fell on a Friday exactly 69 times between Nisan 30 of Neh.2:1 and Nisan
30 of AD 32; but it was five days after the
"Day of Visitation" had fulfilled Zech.9:9.

In that fulfillment, the very last day of the Solar countdown occurred on Palm Sunday. The date of Passover, Nisan 14, occurred just 69
times on a Friday between BCE 445 and AD 32;
and the very last day of each set of Seven occurred on Nisan 30. It took 84 months (of
84x30 days) for Nisan 14 to occur on a Friday.

The significance of fulfilling 69 sets of
Biblical sevens within 68 sets of Solar sevens
is that 68 is the only number that could be multiplied by 365.25 days to produce complete sets of exactly (7x360) 2520-24 hour days ... except for the final solar set of 2499 days
which ended the Solar Countdown on Palm Sunday, 21 days short of the final 69th Biblical set.

The last day of 7x68x365.25 days was just three weeks short of 69 sets of 7x360. That forced the last day (the day of "visitation" of Luke 19:44) to occur on Palm Sunday to fulfill Zech.9:9 as Christ was hailed "King of the Jews". It also
agrees with Daniel 9:26 that Christ would be
"cut off" (five days) *after* Palm Sunday.

The countdown of 69 sets of 7x360 forced
Passover to occur on Friday, Nisan 14, just
once every seven years ... revealing the
secret of the 69 Sevens with Passover on a Friday for the 69th time from BCE 445 to AD
32 (or BCE 444 to AD 33).

This may be seen at Biblical Month or God's
Timing or Seventy 7's at www.lastday.net.

Mel Miller