Biblical numbers game :) - Page 7

 Thanks Gouda,

Very good knowledge

Yes, Red Sable, it is as it should be..  All of us  want to search for knowledge and we all want to be accepted and LOVED.

That is our nature to search out what , where, when and HOW>  We can all share our knowledge and each one of us , have the freedom to read it and digest and test it..

My curiousity got the best so I ran in here and read...I am trying to get lights back on...the christmas lights went out on my table of hundreds of Santa heads etc deep entwined in each other so I had to take it all apart...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr   

I have fudge to make, fruitcake to bake, and outside lights to rerun too..
I am not an electrician and my son thinks all my decorations are ridiculous...men!!!

YR

And to think, I found the shortcut when I was in second grade

I'll have to look at all of the numbers, but they are the same ones I've had interest in for decades.  But, the vast difference is, he's using only the calculations for totals, where I see geometry. 

Sacred Geometry, is not new, GSDTravels. Sorry to butt in.  And does not require numbers in its description. I just saw that on the TV.

Please don't tell me you are heading for the secrets of the Knights Templar with all this. 

YR, I know you will not present any dark entries.  I can tell you are a fellow Christain.  

GSDtravels--ok if not "new age" then numerology?

I didn't see it on TV beetree, I don't have cable :)

ggturner, why are you so obsessed with putting a label on MY thoughts?  How may times do I have to tell you it's not something I follow, it's something I see?  Me, myself and I.  Or do you need an interpretation?

GG:
I just got off the phone with a Dr. I use to date, and I told him my postings about number in the Bible and we discussed 3 and he said
ok  you need to go look into numberology...I told him no thank you...I do not need to know anything but I will read something about it,,,to see what yu are speaking of..

A few years ago someone tried to get me to read up on our body's condition on certain days of the month,,cannot remember what he called it , but he said those days you do not do this or that and depression he had was worse on certain days.

Filling the mind with persuasions of the world do not help us , they hinder us finding the real truth that we were created for and how to handle our bodies, which are also called the TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT..

bACK TO SUPPER

yr

 Offer this I just found on the way to the kitchen: lol

The Symbolism of Numbers in the Bible
compiled by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D.

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In many ancient cultures, including Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, numbers were not used as precisely as we might presuppose today. Thus, numbers in the Old Testament and New Testament books are often meant symbolically, not literally. For example:

• When the Israelites wanted to say "a long time," they would say "40 days" or "40 years." Not concerned with meticulous precision as much as we are today, saying "forty" did not mean that they counted carefully, and the result was exactly between 39 and 41, no more and no less.
• Similarly, to say "a short time," the Scriptures often say "on the third day" or "in three days," but without meaning exactly 72 hours!

Consider the symbolism of other numbers used in biblical texts:

1	singularity; God in monotheism (Deut 6:4); unity for humans (John 10:16; Eph 4:4)
2	duality: contrary (light/dark, good/evil) or complimentary (material/spiritual; human/divine)
3	God's actions: 3 "visitors" (Gen 18:2); "third day" (Exod 19:11); later "Trinity" (Matt 28:19)
3½	half of seven; thus things in process, still incomplete
4	earth, directions, winds, empires; later the four Gospels or four Evangelists
6	human work/effort (Luke 13:14);  incompleteness, imperfection, lack (not yet 7)
7	days in a week, sabbath rest (Gen 2:1-3); thus natural & divine completeness/perfection
8	Jewish day of Circumcision (Exod 22:30); Christian day of Resurrection (John 20:26)
10	completion; basis of many number systems (# digits on fingers/toes!)
11	incompletion; only eleven apostles remain after Judas' death
12	months per year, tribes of Israel, apostles of Jesus; human completion
[13]	[used in later superstition; based on Judas, but not used in Bible itself]
14	value of the name "David" in Hebrew gematria (a type of numerology popular in ancient Judaism) obtained by summing the value of its three consonants (dalet=4, vav=6; thus D+V+D = 4+6+4)
24	Christian number for completion/restoration:  OT tribes + NT apostles
30	days in month in ancient lunar calendars
40	very long time: years of Israel's Exodus, days of Jesus’ temptation
42	number of months in 3½ years (half of seven years; see also 1260 days)
100	= 10x10
144	= 12x12, thus perfect completion
360	number of days in a lunar year
365	number of days in a solar year (cf. Gen 5:23)
666	number of the beast  (Rev 13:18 only; variant reading is 616)
1000	= 10x10x10
1260	number of days in 3½ years (thus incompletion)
10,000	“myriad”; highest ancient number with its own name

Larger numbers in the Bible are often multiples of these basic numbers, thus combining their significance:

• 7000 = 7 x 1000;   12,000 = 12 x 1000;   20,000 = 2 x 10,000;   144,000 = 12 x 12,000
• "200 million" in Rev 9:16 is an English equivalent for 20,000 x 10,000; but there is no word in Hebrew or Greek for "million" or "billion"

This is cirtainly not meant to offend anyone here.

The Bible Code is a modern day equivalent of "them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter" and who are forbidden to God's people. We don't need a secret code when we have God's clear word: "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Is 8:19�20). The Bible Code fails the test.


 This is just a warning to my christian friends here.
An Atheist is the one that presented this post,and she  believes that you should be in a insane asylem. 

 God bless all the Christians here.

 .  I dont even allow people like that in       ....

Any way....I say, the answer to the riddle is: Pi  . 

http://www.a-voice.org/main/numbers.htm 

  gouda