Instantly the mere observer would write this off as another book of Bible Codes and if you had an interest in such things then you might have given it a second glance. Many immediately label this as another book of Bible Codes but it is not. Bible Codes uses a letter skipping tecnique called Equidistant Letter Sequence. Theomatics is based upon two systems called Gematria and Isosephia unlike the Bible Codes techniques. Gematria is basically the assigning of numerical values to a word or a phrase and Isosephia comes from two words, iso meaning “equals,” and psephos meaning “pebbles,” which came from the system that Greeks used as they arranged pebbles in patterns to learn arithmetic and geometry. Interesting enough that the Latin word for “pebbles,” is “Calculi,” and it is from this Latin word we get our English word, “Calculate.”
That said this book takes us on an exploration through an avenue of thought very few have ever explored. If this concepts or the theories of Theomatics, which was nothing more than a word coined by Del Washburn to combine, “Theo-God,” and “Mathematics,” then the Word of God as we know it has much more of an appeal as a book divinely authored by God than we though imaginable!
There has been much debate over this subject and many will state that this is something that has been around for quite some time and the principle can be found in the fundamental ideas of the “Kabbalah,” which is nothing more than astrological mysticism based on the principles of the Torah. And so I will provide a brief explanation on this concept covered in this book. Nothing more and nothing less. I think it is an interesting read but I am still up in the air as to considering this a worthwhile study to invest time in. If nothing else it is much like other ideas of scripture such as the Gap theory, Nephilim and other things that are theoretical in nature but definitely get a good mind going!
Two typical matches that I will use as an example that are found by the system of Theomatics are numbers that appear in the Bible such as:
1- Jesus chose 12 disciples
2- His disciples caught 153 fish
3- The Israelites wept for 30 days after the death of Moses
4- Adam became a father at 800 years old
5- Noah’s ark was 300 cubits long
Each of these values are each matched up with the numerical values for words, groups of words, phrases or sentences that are located nearby in scripture. For example if we continue to look at the mention of the disciples catching the 153 fish in John 21:11 we will find that “Fishes,” has a Theomatic value of 1,224 which is equal to 153 X 8. Basically taking the Greek word “Fishes,” and how each Greek letter has a numeric value and then adding them up, which equals 1,224 which is a multiple of 153.
Also, the “net,” has a value of 1,224 which is also equal to 153 X 8; “Multitude of Fishes,” has a value of 2,448 which is equal to 153 X 16; “Fishers of Men,” has a value of 2,142 which ,can you guess, is equal to 153 X 14.
Names also have a numeric value such as the name, Jesus. In Greek it has the value of 888, which is 111 X 8. When searching scripture for text or phrases in the Greek that have a value of 111 or a multiple of 111 you come across:
Matthew 1:16 “And Jacob begat Joseph…called Christ.” Value= 7,326 which is 111X66
Matthew 1:18 “Now the birth of Jesus Christ….Holy Spirit.” Value = 5,439 which is 111X49
Matthew 1:23 “…and she will bear a son.” Value= 1,221 which is 111X11.
And so just in this case Theomatic research asserts that matches appear, “only on references to do specifically with the birth of Jesus,” among some of the other assertions. It is because of these multiple findings in which phrases or words appear much for frequently than by chance that the system of Theomatics among many has become a very real and scientific proof that God was the author of the book we call the Bible.
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