LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 82, 31 December 1920, Page 5

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

6 ■ SPIRITISBI—A CORRECTION '

Sir,—The 'Quotation, concluding my lettor that appeared in your issue of'this •nioniing 'should have been preceded by 'ho words "laid down by Gamaliel, a teacher ol the Apostle Patii."—l-'ain, etc.,

• ANOTHER MAC. Wellington, December 30.

SPIRITISM AND BIBLICAL FROOF ! •Sir,—Mr. M'Kinnon, in his letter of December 29, states "it would add very greatly to tho ennobling of the earth if mankind, in general were to be supplied with convincing, irrefutable .proof of (1) 'she existence and identity of an Architect of the Universe; (2) the existence aiid nature of tho hereafter." May I be jjerniitted to point out that iu. the Bible'Mr. M'Kinnon can find tho answer to .'each question if ho will read saine (for-, getting, if possible, all ho may have learnt from various teachers). Evidence is in abundance "Convincing and irrefutable." of the truth of its statements that "Holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit," "All Scripture is given 'by inspiration of God." So much so, faith is not needed to believe; one is compelled when duo consideration is given to weight of evidence, 'N-jfoiily""* is the ordinary proof available to any reader of the Bible, but an eminent Greek and Hebrew scholar, Ivan Panin, has recently discovered- that under th» structure of cach word, sentence, paragraph, or book, or tho whole Book, thorn is an iutricatc, complicated system "of mathematical phenomena which, as no man could possibly imitato, and which gives us an "unassailable sign" that the words therein aro from God to man for the express purpose "that mau, may'know Him" nnd to teach us of the future age. Taking, for example, the first verse of the Bible as a criterion of the whole (but note each verso is related to the others and in sympathy with the number examined, so the mathematical phenomena increase). The first sentence of the Bible is' "Iln the beginning Eloliim (God) created the heavens and the earth," which, like the rest of tho Old Testament, is -written in Hebrew. This verso in tho Hebrew has seven words (Featuro 1) nnd.-SS, lettors or -1 sevens (Feature 2), divided thus: The first threo words, the subject and predicate of tho sentence, In the begining God created, havo 14 letters or 2 "sevens, tho last four, the object ol the sentence, tho heavens and the "earth, havo also 14 (Feature 8). (2) The object of the sentence found in the last four words consists of two Separate objects, the heavens, and the eal'tli. Accordingly, the 14 letters of this object of the "sohtence are in their turn thus divided: Tho first object, the heavens, has 7 loiters; the second oV ject, and the earth, has also 7 (Feature 4). (3) With regard to the importance of the woMs in tho sentence, their 28 letters are divided thus: Tho three lending words, subject and objcct, God, theUeavens, thc-oarth, have 14 letters, or 2 sevens, with a "value" of 924 or. 132 sevens (Feature 5). (In order to explain tho Cleaning of "vhluo" it may be necMftiry to say that neither Hebrew nor Greek language's, in which tlio Old Testament and Now Testament were respectively written, had any separata symbols for numerals corresponding to our Arabic figures, In their place thfey used tho letters of their alphabets. Tho ! 22 Hebrew letters stand respectively oach for the following numbers—l 2 3 4 5,G 7 8 9 10 20 '30 40 50 GO 70 SO 90 100 200 300 400. So that tho sum of the numerical values of its lottcrs is the numeric-value of aword 'or sentence, fctc.), of which the numeric value is 777, or 111 sevens, and tho place value (place value is the number of the place a letter occupies in alphabet) 147 or 3 sevens (Feature G) of sevens (Feature 7), the other four words have . also 14 or 2 sevens (Feature S). (4) Of tho 7 words of this verso some begin with as. vowel letter; others with a consonant letter. With reference to this fact, the 28 letters are thus divided: Tho vowel words liiivc seven: occupying places 3 and 4 among theso seven words,. with seven for their sum (Feature !)), the consonant words havo 21 or 8 sevens: occupying 1, 2, 5, 15, 7, with thoir sum 21 or 3 sevens (Feature 10). Thus there !ito no fewer thin ten features of eeven inoonheetionwit.il the mote number of leu-el's ill those seven words, showing an elaborate design of sevens thus Tim through thes« seven words of the Bible. • • • • It can bo shown that every paragraph of tho 6G books of tho Bible displays the same phenomena. Yet 33 difforb'nt Jier/sons are tho writers, some 16 conhiriefe separating tiro firet from tho last, plainly mere ihati could hot have vrittoi) thus. Inspired they were, according to their statements, and when we fihd such a stupendous structure underlying the words they \vroto, it would require tin Architect as wonderful as tho Bible describes Hint to inspire thoili. I maintain - that the aliovc is irrefutable proof that the. Bible should havo the confidence of all, for mark, take out one letter and the wholo is spoilt; showing clearly we liave ■ the Bible intadt even to a letter.—l am, etc., J. \V. WAUH3R. Wellington, December 21), 1920. [The above lot tor li/ik been cut-tailed liy the omission of (--even parrtjjnipliF which. Mr. Walker details additional j„_. ataßcss combina-tiotii of : ijauw'j