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How does the discovery of the Hebrew Encoding prove that God inspired, led and controlled men’s writing of every letter in the Bible? There is 1 chance in 50 quadrillion of these codes being produced in the text by chance. How complicated is this Hebrew encoding? So complicated is this encoding that taking any phrase and trying to do the same in English or Hebrew cannot be duplicated by man or computer. It is absolute evidence of God’s absolute control over every letter and word and order of the letters and words written in the Bible and their preservation over 3,500 years of time. They also confirm absolutely Jesus’ words that not one letter of Scripture would pass away or be corrupted until all would be fulfilled. The Hebrew Codes in Scripture give us absolute proof and confirmation of Jesus’ words. The Program Code Finder:  Millennium Edition is available on line at Hebrew Learning Tools.  See also on line Bible Shop for Bible Codes software.

What is the significance of the discovery of Hebrew Encoding and how does this relate to how reliable the Manuscripts of the Bible we have are? It proves, as we will discuss in the next few Chapters as well, that the first five books of the Bible, the Torah written by Moses, could not have been made up or accumulated over several hundreds of years with several editors adding from time to time additional material. This is known as the Documentary Hypothesis formulated by Julius Welhausen and his associates in 1895. If this were to have happened, there would be no Hebrew Codes to find since the original text would then have been corrupted. It proves that the manuscripts of the Bible we have today are the same letter for letter text of the Bible they were originally written in by Moses and the rest of the authors of the Bible. Also, it proves that no man himself, despite all his modern technology, could have written these manuscripts without direct outside letter for letter instruction in doing so from a far higher intelligence than man himself. Finally, it proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Yehovah Elohim, Jesus Christ Himself, as the Bible claims, is the author of the Judeo-Christian Bible, the author of this book alone. The Apostles Paul and Peter wrote under the Inspiration of God:

"All Scripture is give-by-inspiration-of-God³²⁴ and profitable for teaching for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." (2 Tim 3:16-17)

"But know this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s-own-authority-to-loose³⁸⁰ to-cause-to-come-into-existence³⁸¹, for no prophecy was-ever brought-forth³⁸² by the will of man, but being-brought-forth³⁸³ by the Holy Spirit, men of God spoke³⁸⁴." (2 Peter 1:20-21) [Correct literal translation by Dale P. Kruse.  the word eJrmhneuvw that we get the word Hermeneuitics from meaning translate, explain, interpret is not found in this passage.  See references listed above for the words used and their true meaning as translated above]

Another confirmation of Jesus’ Words that every letter is inspired in the Scriptures is the mathematical preciseness of the Scriptures. So mathematically precise are the Scriptures that again neither man nor our computers can duplicate it.

Ivan Panin, a famous early century mathematician left Russia to eventually settle in Canada in the town of Aldershot, Ontario. Ivan had been a committed atheist early in his life, but also early in his life he found Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. In 1890 Panin begin a scientific exploration of the text of the Bible that would last for fifty years which would prove God’s letter inspiration of the Bible.

In this study he discovered that the letters and words of the Bible were in a precise mathematical order. To fully understand this, one needs to understand that the languages that the Old Testament and the New Testament are written in are alphanumeric. This means that the letters of their alphabet are also their mathematical numbers. If this were true in the English alphabet it would mean that A would be 1, B would be 2, C would be 3 and so on. This is true of the Hebrew and the Greek alphabets. Each letter is also a number. Because each letter had a numeric value, every word can be given a Numeric value by adding up the total value of each of the individual letters.

For example: Genesis 1:1 states, "In the Beginning Elohim created the Heaven and the Earth." The word Beginning in Hebrew is tyviareB]. It has a numeric value of 913. As a result we can add up all the words in a sentence to determine its numeric value. What Panin discovered was that in both the first Chapter of Genesis as well as in the first Chapter of Matthew is an astonishing order of multiples of 7 that scientifically cannot be explained as happening by chance. The significance of this is that the number seven in the Bible is the number for God, the number of perfection, while the number for man is 6. There were 7 days of creation, God rested on the seventh day. In the book of Revelation, Jesus through John wrote to the seven Churches. Revelation talks about 7 trumpets. In Genesis 1:1 Panin discovered 30 mathematical multiples of 7.

If you would like to read Panin’s complete work on this it is published in his book, The Inspiration of the Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated. Panin searched for this pattern in literature outside the Bible. Neither he nor anyone else has ever been able to find this phenomenon in ancient or recent literature. It is only found in the Bible in both the Hebrew and the Greek texts.

Getting back to our original question: How reliable are the manuscript copies we have today? In light of the evidence presented in this Chapter, we can say without wavering, The Bible: Absolutely Reliable After Two-Thousand Years Of Transmission!

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2. Jeffrey, Grant R. The Signature of God. Toronto: Frontier Research Publications, Inc., 1996.
3. Panin, Ivan. The Inspiration of the Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated.
4. Wilson, Robert Dick. A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament. Chicago: Moody Press, 1959.
5. Morris, Henry M & Henry M. Morris III. Many Infallible Proofs. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, Inc., © 1974, 1996 by Henry M. Morris.
6. Free, Joseph P. & Vos, Howard F. Archaeology and Bible History. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992.
7. Metzger, Bruce. The Text of the New Testament, 3rd edition. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1992.
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