How was the Bible made?

[Gaiaguerrilla]

If we look at the first 17 verses of the New Testament (The Gospel of Matthew) which deals with a single principal subject: the genealogy of Jesus Christ, It contains 72 Greek vocabulary words in these initial 17 versus(*note; The verse divisions are man’s allocation for convenience, added in the thirteenth-century A.D.). We find the following Heptadic (7) structure throughout these original Greek versus.

1 The number of words which are nouns is exactly 56, or 7 x 8.
2 The Greek word “the” occurs most frequently in the passage: exactly 56 times, or 7 x 8.
3 Also, the number of different forms in which the article “the” occurs is exactly 7.
4 There are two main sections in the passage: verse 1-11 and 12-17. In the first main section, the number of Greek vocabulary words used is 49, or 7 x 7.
5 Of these 49 words, The number of those beginning with a vowel is 28, or 7 x 4.
6 The number of words beginning with a consonant is 21, or 7 x 3.
7 The total number of letters in these 49 words is exactly 266, or 7 x 38-exactly.
8 The numbers of vowels among these 266 letters is 140, or 7 x 20.
9 The number of consonants is 126, or 7 x 18-exactly.
10 Of these 49 words, the number of words which occur more than once is 35, or 7 x 5.
11 The number of words occurring only once is 14, or 7 x2.
12 The number of words which occur in only one form is exactly 42, or 7 x 6.
13 The number of words appearing in more than one form is also 7.
14 The number of 49 Greek vocabulary words which are nouns is 42, or 7 x 6.
15 The number of words which are not nouns is 7.
16 Of the nouns, 35 are proper names, or 7 x 5.
17 These 35 nouns are used 63 times, or 7 x 9.
18 The number of male names is 28, or 7 x 4.
19 These male names occur 56 times or 7 x 8.
20 The number which are not male names is 7.
21 Three women are mentioned-Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. The number of Greek letters in these three names is 14, or 7 x 2.
22 The number of compound nouns is 7.
23 The number of Greek letters in these 7 nouns is 49, or 7 x 7.
24 Only one city is named in this passage, Babylon, which in Greek contains exactly 7 letters.
And on and on it goes.

Just to understand how unique these properties are try to design a genealogy-even from fiction that meets the following criteria:

1 The Number of words must be divisible by 7 evenly. (In each of these constraints, it is assumed that the divisions are without remainders.)
2 The number of letters must also be divisible by 7.
3 The number of vowels and the number of consonants must be divisible by 7.
4 The number of words that begin with a vowel must be divisible by 7.
5 The number of words that begin with a consonant must be divisible by 7.
6 The number of words that occur more than once must be divisible by 7.
7 The number of words that occur in more than one form must be divisible by 7.
8 The number of words that occur in only one form shall be divisible by 7.
9 The number of nouns shall be divisible by 7.
10 Only 7 words shall not be nouns.
11 The number of names in the genealogy shall be divisible by 7.
12 Only 7 other kinds of nouns are permitted.
13 The number of male names shall be divisible by 7.
14 The number of generations shall be 21, also divisible by 7.

biblebelievers.org.au/panin1.htm

So how?

[Uccisore]

The second set of criteria doesn’t follow from the first. To see how unlikely the New Testament numerology is, we don’t have to duplicate it’s numerology. We merely have to create something that seems equally amazing. I’d say there are a great many combinations of letters and words and such, such that if you started diving them by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 666, 23, 3.14, or whatever, you would get a bunch of neat results.

[gib]

Maybe somebody should actually verify this.

[Simms]

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