Timothy S.
Morton in “An ‘Unconventional’ View of the Scriptures” mentions that some guy, identified only as “The Carpenter,” came up with the idea of making a
biblical text which changes the printed numbers (as words) into Arabic
numerals. “To aid in seeing the numbers, they need to be changed from text into
digits (3 for ‘three,’ 80 for ‘fourscore,’ etc.)…As a result we
produced a new edition of the Authorized King James Version like no other in
existance (sic). We call it the Authorized
Version, Numerical. It is identical to the regular Authorized Version in
words and meaning. The only differences are the written out number words are
changed to digits, with brackets around the digits for clarity (basically just
a spelling change), and the text is broken at sentences, questions, and the
digits.” These Gnostics have found the key to the Scriptures – the key to
proving, to their own satisfaction, that the scriptures themselves prove, in so
many numbers, that the King James Bible is the word of God. “It appears the Lord
hid a key in the Scriptures nearly 2000 years ago that He kept hidden until
2009.” They found a sequence of verses/sentences that has a 1, then a 6, then a
1, and then another 1 – John
11:52-12:5.[i]
“Who says the 1611 is not found in the Bible! As far as we know this is the first time this has been revealed. This sequence transcends language and translation. The digits 1611 are found in any true Bible text in any language!...as a simple test try to find the dates that some of the ‘new Bibles’ were published in sequence like 1611. How about,
1885, (The Revised Version that was destined to ‘replace’ the AV) — Nope
1901, (The American Standard Version) — Nope
1952, (The Revised Standard Version) — Nope
1967, (The New American Standard Version) — Nope
1978, (The New International Version) — Nope
1982, (New King James Version) — Nope
2001, (English Standard Version) — Nope
...and many more!
Thus the only major Bible translation with its publication date found in order among the numbers of the Scriptures is that of the Authorized King James of 1611!
Furthermore, what is indeed ironic is the 1611 sequence is found in all the new versions while their own publication dates are not! How is that for an insult?
Apparently the Authorized
Version, Numerical is available on the Version 4.8 of
the Bible Analyzer software program. While I agree with Timothy
Morton and “The Carpenter” that the King James Bible is the word of God, I reject such defense of it as bordering on the nonsensical. Such an argument is “preaching
to the choir” that will convince none but the already convinced.
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