01-12-2008, 10:44 PM
January 12, 2008
Dear Dave,
What I wrote about the Western 5 was:???...the Western Five and the ???Pericope de Adultera??? are all of uncertain origin and uncertain authorship.??? That does not mean that they are definitely without divine inspiration, but only that we cannot be sure because their history is less certain than that of the twenty-two books of the Peshitta.
I believe that is the prevailing viewpoint at Peshitta.org and the position of Paul Younan, this web site???s creator.
I also believe that your position is tainted by your unyielding convictions about the Bible Code nonsense, which is really nothing more than electronic Scrabble. I already pointed out to you that the results of your ???95 divine names??? study are not miraculous; in fact, mathematically they are rather ordinary. Your long codes are the result of hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of trial combinations of letters that are now possible with high speed computers. As George Gamow pointed out many years ago, shuffling the characters enough will yield ???messages??? by pure chance. The chance of finding something that you did not expect and for which you did not search is always 100%.
Your position on the Aramaic text of the New Testament is too rigid for rational discussion. I think that you are convinced that you have been chosen by God for a ???divine contact??? given by ???Bible Codes??? that you have uncovered in the Western Peshitto text that he received along with yourr purchase of the Codefinder computer program. In fact, you seems to believe that the Western Peshitto has the ONE AND ONLY PERFECT TEXT and it has exactly 461,094 letters. This is the divine and perfect text that has the Bible codes that you have been chosen by God to ???discover???. Even a small change of the text would create a text that is no longer PERFECT. I think you are certain that the Peshitto text that you received with your Bible Code program is PERFECT.
It seems that there is really no room for us to have a constructive discussion.
Sincerely,
Otto
P.S. Dave, I know that you are a brilliant linguist. I also believe that you are an excellent parent of your children and a fine Pastor of your church, highly motivated and energetic, and an all-around nice person. Someday, I would like to meet you personally and shake your hand. Surely, we can have disagreements on technical issues and still be brothers in the Lord. Yeshua Meshikha was the only perfect man. The rest of us will have to wait for his return to discern everything more clearly.
Dear Dave,
What I wrote about the Western 5 was:???...the Western Five and the ???Pericope de Adultera??? are all of uncertain origin and uncertain authorship.??? That does not mean that they are definitely without divine inspiration, but only that we cannot be sure because their history is less certain than that of the twenty-two books of the Peshitta.
I believe that is the prevailing viewpoint at Peshitta.org and the position of Paul Younan, this web site???s creator.
I also believe that your position is tainted by your unyielding convictions about the Bible Code nonsense, which is really nothing more than electronic Scrabble. I already pointed out to you that the results of your ???95 divine names??? study are not miraculous; in fact, mathematically they are rather ordinary. Your long codes are the result of hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of trial combinations of letters that are now possible with high speed computers. As George Gamow pointed out many years ago, shuffling the characters enough will yield ???messages??? by pure chance. The chance of finding something that you did not expect and for which you did not search is always 100%.
Your position on the Aramaic text of the New Testament is too rigid for rational discussion. I think that you are convinced that you have been chosen by God for a ???divine contact??? given by ???Bible Codes??? that you have uncovered in the Western Peshitto text that he received along with yourr purchase of the Codefinder computer program. In fact, you seems to believe that the Western Peshitto has the ONE AND ONLY PERFECT TEXT and it has exactly 461,094 letters. This is the divine and perfect text that has the Bible codes that you have been chosen by God to ???discover???. Even a small change of the text would create a text that is no longer PERFECT. I think you are certain that the Peshitto text that you received with your Bible Code program is PERFECT.
It seems that there is really no room for us to have a constructive discussion.
Sincerely,
Otto
P.S. Dave, I know that you are a brilliant linguist. I also believe that you are an excellent parent of your children and a fine Pastor of your church, highly motivated and energetic, and an all-around nice person. Someday, I would like to meet you personally and shake your hand. Surely, we can have disagreements on technical issues and still be brothers in the Lord. Yeshua Meshikha was the only perfect man. The rest of us will have to wait for his return to discern everything more clearly.