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Smudge, the bible written today is definitely not exactly as it was written in the past. It has been through many, many translations. I doubt seriously that you will ever find anything that Adam actually wrote, for example.
Just in English there are dozens (at least) of translations. For Christians, which has the Old Testament as well as New there are revisions such as:
King James Version
New International Version
Today's New International Version
New Living Translation
New American Standard Bible
English Standard Version
Holman Christian Standard Bible
New Revised Standard Version
Good News Translation (TEV)
Contemporary English Version
New Century Version
New King James Version
New American Bible
New Jerusalem Bible
NET Bible
Revised Standard Version
The Message
God's Word
Revised English Bible
If you were to read the same scripture in each of these Bibles, you would find many differences even to the point where meaning can be affected.
Yes, but the codes are found in the Hebrew version, not in any of the English ones, and while it may not be word to word as originally, I don't think there have been any revisions of the Bible in Hebrew.
I took a college course on a literary approach to the bible. I was taught in that class that written Hebrew has changed. The biggest change being that old Hebrew had no vowels. We as modern translators have put the vowels in to form the words that apparently fit based upon the sentence structure. This clearly leaves a big margin for error.
If the Hebrew written language has changed to that extent this would effect the Hebrew written version used to come up with these codes.
From what I understand, they are not using "modern" Hebrew to find the codes, but what is considered the "original" texts. Frankly, I don't see what difference vowels or no vowels has to do with whether or not the phenomenon is real.
As far as the birth/death dates of the rabbis (66 of them, and not just 12 as I had misremembered in a previous post), the test proves that the ELS's are not due to chance - mathematically speaking, the effects are "significant."
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but even if it did tell who the murderer was to be, should he be jailed before committing the murder |
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From what I understand, they are not using "modern" Hebrew to find the codes, but what is considered the "original" texts. Frankly, I don't see what difference vowels or no vowels has to do with whether or not the phenomenon is real. |
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I took a college course on a literary approach to the bible. I was taught in that class that written Hebrew has changed. The biggest change being that old Hebrew had no vowels. We as modern translators have put the vowels in to form the words that apparently fit based upon the sentence structure. This clearly leaves a big margin for error. If the Hebrew written language has changed to that extent this would effect the Hebrew written version used to come up with these codes. |