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The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.
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Ancient civilizations' overview.......2007-08-21
This book assembles a large number of evidences left by ancient civilizations. Written in an "adventure" format, the reading is quite easy and captivating. You'll enjoy better the subjects that you know little or nothing about (since it would not be possible to collect all the details over a so large number of occurrences).
Strongly recommended for those searching for an initiation on the "ancient civilizations" quest.
Interesting book.......2007-08-06
My husband introduced me to this book while we were dating and I enjoyed it. The author, Graham Hancock, has visited the sites of ancient civilizations in Egypt, Peru, China, Easter Island, and such, and has found evidence of similar and very advanced methods of construction, mathematics, and water management as well as parallel legends that originated at these far-flung places.
highly recomended.......2007-06-11
This thought provoking piece of investigative archeology will inspire you to think about the mysteries of the origin of our civilisation. Very well written so that even moderatly educated people can come to grips with highly technical conclusions that are arrived at using common sense and logic.
Interesting.......2007-06-05
I found most of this book utterly fascinating. I found that Hancock's ideas about all the similiarities between Ancient cultures pretty enlightening. I never realized that so many of the myths were so common among the ancient people like the story of the great flood or deluge. One has to wonder if they new about it, witnessed it, or it was orally passed down. This part of the book was great. You start asking yourself how did these similar stories get around the globe? How did the similarities in their building techniques get around the globe?
And here is where Hancock wants you to take a GIANT leap. For him all of it, everything from the stories to buildings to the gods they worshipped came from a so-called "Lost Civilization" that he thinks lived on Antartica. Fine, I can certainly see how one may come to this conclusion. But I think Hancock simply ignores easier theories because he so blindly believes his own with a scary single-minded tenacity. Hancock himself goes into great detail about how he believes that the ancients were great sailors of the oceans. The boats found buried near the pyramids gives this pretty good footing. So if they were such good sailors and were mapping the continents, Couldn't they have also spread their way of life and their knowledge this way? Couldn't it be as simple as a 'sharing of ideas' among the ancient cultures rather that some hidden, unseen, secret civilization teaching everyone their secrets? I mean the ancient egyptians could have easily sailed to the Americans and shared their building techniques and religious stories. If not the egyptians if could have been the Minoans.
I did like a lot of this book but I think sometimes Mr. Hancock is searching for something so extrodinary that he sometimes ignores the very clues and facts that he DOES find. If you don't believe me read his other books. He is so dead set on there being a "lost" society that he refuses to see somethinge right in front of his face.
No connective tissue.......2007-06-04
The basic gist of the book it: (1) there was an advanced human civilization that developed on what is not Antarctica before the last Ice Age when the continent was habitable and further north; (2) this civilization developed sea-faring technology and journeyed to South/Central America, Egypt/the Middle East, and India; (3) these people passed on aspects of their culture and technology which have come down to us through myths, legends, and certain physical structures.
Hancock takes a lot of cultural traditions and archeological evidence and tries to fit it all into his over-arching thesis; it's kind of like a "unified theory of pre-history." True, it's very interesting and true, there are really no adequate explanations for some his evidence but that's very far from making the case. There just isn't much connective tissue here; it's mostly bizarre pieces of data stuck together with conjecture and imagination (or, as Hancock puts it: intuition).
To read this book and conclude that Hancock has "proved" the existence of pre-glacial civilization(s) (as have some reviewers here, apparently), you would have to be a moron. I have to admit, however, that there is enough here to give one pause. One cannot completely dismiss the theory.
It certainly seems possible (and, perhaps, even probable) that humanity reached some degree of civilization before the last Ice Age and all the global climatic catastrophes that went with it. But Antarctica? Even if you accept the explanation that the continent suddenly shifted south by 2,000 miles about 15,000 years ago, why would this super-civilization emerge there and so outpace human societal evolution elsewhere in the world? How would people have gotten there in the first place (or would Hancock claim that a branch of the human race evolved there independent of Africa and elsewhere?)
I could go on but I won't. Bottom line is: interesting but not compelling. It's an interesting theory and might even be possible, but lots of things are possible. FotG does not "prove" anything; it just presents one tantalizing theory to explain historical oddities that will probably never be explained.
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In The Fingerprints of God best-selling author Robert Farrar Capon takes readers on a sleuthing project, using his own uniquely developed history of images to find evidence of the Divine Suspect in our midst." "Capon first explores various images that prompt proper talk about God and the nature of Scripture. The Bible, he says, is the mystery story of God's hidden presence as the Divine Suspect behind all history. Capon discusses the misuse of Scripture due to literalist interpretation, looks at the ways Christ has suffered at the hands of human image-makers, and proposes a novel understanding of salvation history that clarifies the proper roles of Scripture, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus." "In the second part of the book Capon turns his magnifying glass on major thinkers from church history - Irenaeus, Athanasius, Anselm, Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Julian of Norwich, and others - pointing out both the strong and the weak images they have produced. Throughout the centuries, Capon sees God as the "Divine Bowler" trying to knock down the faulty "pins" of ideas that have been set up in the lanes of religious history, while also disclosing himself in profound and powerful ways.
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Re-forming the Reformation.......2000-08-08
Father Capon has done it again! He has given us food for thought with his own unique spin. True, he makes points that he's already made in preceding books - but in this one, he zeros in on the mistakes of some of the church fathers and puts a name to it - "transactionalism" - the old left-brain idea that one must contribute some kind of coin - sacrifice, repentance, good works - whatever - to deserve the free gift of forgiveness and grace given by God from the get-go to humanity. The Reformation kicked transactionalism out the front door, proclaiming salvation by grace, through faith, (not works), but let it right back in the back door by stipulating that faith was the current coin of the realm.
In his own inimitable style, Father Capon has the Holy Spirit saying (in a dialogue among the Trinity at the beginning of the book), "They're going to paint themselves into a corner and say that the unbaptized go to hell or even that sins after Baptism make forgiveness flake off like a bad paint job, and that unless Christians go to confession for a second coat before they die, they'll go to hell too. Oh sure. We've also agreed on this Reformation business where I convince them that nobody has to do anything to be forgiven except trust the grace that Jesus has already given everybody. But give them a hundred years after that and they'll manage to turn faith itself into a requirement for grace: no faith, no forgiveness. Out the window again goes the free gift we've given them once and for all; and back in comes forgiveness as a deal that's good only as long as they behave themselves."
The author goes on to explain how the great church reformers such as Irenaeus, Athanasius. Luther, Calvin and Melanchthon, while contributing invaluable insights essential to a true reformation, still slipped in this pernicious transactionalism. "Human beings aren't afraid of accountability," says Capon's Holy Spirit, "they're crazy about it. If they can't get credit for themselves or dish out blame to others, they cry, 'Unfair!'"
Father Capon says he was originally planning to call the book *Re-forming the Reformation* and I think that may have been a better title for it (a worthy double entendre) because the book seems to hang together on the explication of these wrong turns in Christendom better than it does on an exploration of images. The only time images take center stage is when the author is talking about Literalism/Fundamentalism vs. Liberalism (turning the Bible into a book of ethics and denying the mystery) and he says both views are mistakes. God can jolly well use any device he wants to tell the STORY of scripture - images in poetry, hyperbole, allegory, parables, and yes, even literalism - even though the latter is seldom employed. So literalism is madness and deconstructivist liberalism takes all the vital juice out of it and who needs that?
The history of church thought that the author covers is most valuable and enlightening, but I thought that the imaginary dialogue with the church fathers toward the end of the book was a bit pedantic and tedious. Most of the same points were made in an earlier chapter.
But the burning question, to my mind, is - isn't the atonement itself a transaction no matter how you slice it? Just as C.S. Lewis says that the fall of man didn't HAVE to happen, did the atonement HAVE to take place? What dark necessity required it? Was it a god above and beyond or behind the Father as the god of Destiny was behind and beyond and above Zeus? We find out what the atonement is NOT. It's not a "ransom" - a transaction between God and the devil; it's not a task - a "what" that Jesus accomplished by fulfilling a transactional bill of particulars; it's not even a "bait and switch scam perpetrated by God himself" where "the cross is a mousetrap for the devil" (although Capon seems to favor this interpretation above the other two because it has a sense of humor). But I'm still scratching my head. How ELSE to see the atonement except as SOME kind of transaction?
To be fair to Capon, this was a burning question with me long before I read *The Fingerprints of God*, but since his earlier books (that little gem of Theodicy) *The Third Peacock* and the Parable books (Parables of the Kingdom, Judgment and Grace) changed my life and outlook, I was hoping this one would answer that question. Who knows? Maybe the next one will. In any case, Robert Farrar Capon's books are all and always worth reading, in my opinion. Read this one. Read his others. You won't be disappointed.
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Burns the Heart.......2000-08-04
Fr. Capon has a book that gives me an Emmaus experience. This author has been gifted with the ability to present the Gospel in fresh ways that light a fire inside. Like his other works, Capon has been careful in his accuracy, yet prophetic in his mission. He is one of the few authors today who side steps the modern avalanche of pious moralisms. Rather, he seeks to present the Word in context and in the radical and revolutionary power of what God is saying to us. From page one, I found my well-constructed theological walls of presumption and complacency being chipped starting to crumble. Not a casual read, but an incredble journey for someone who already has inner hints that there must be something more than we have been told about God's relationship to us!
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To a blind person, human touch is essential. In the absence of facial expressions, it reassures and comforts. But can you still feel the warm and soothing touch of an unseen God? Author and musician Jennifer Rothschild, who lost her vision at the age of fifteen, explains how God's touch works from the inside out, warming the heart, mind, and soul. It lifts weights that eyes could never see. It washes away the anguish of guilt, the bite of fear, and the ache of loneliness. With the gentle pressure of His hand on our shoulders, we can find our way through the darkest of nights.
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Fingerprints of God: Recognizing God's Touch on your Life.......2005-09-11
What a writer...she really can see!
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Response to "Some problems reconciling Dr. Ross's theology with the Bible".......2006-03-14
I just had to comment on "a reader's" review. I know the review was from quite awhile ago, however I feel an issue contained therein should be addressed. From their review: "If the Genesis accounts of Creation, the Fall, the origin of nations, the Flood and the Tower of Babel - the first 11 chapters - are not historical, although they are written as historical narrative and understood by Jesus to be so, what other unfashionable parts of the Bible do you discard? The biblical account of creation in Genesis seems very specific with six days of creative activity, each having an evening and a morning. According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong. "
#1 Understood by Jesus to be so? I do not recall a time when Jesus said those stories in a bible were historical facts, and an accurate portrait of the actual occurances. When did he tell you this perchance?
#2 The "biblical order of creation" huh? Which order might that be? I'm sitting here with my King James version in front of me. Let's see, God made the birds, fish, beast of the Earth and everything that creeps upon the earth. Right after that he made man. Hold the phone! A few passages later we have man being formed of the dust on the ground. AFTER man is created birds and beasts are formed so that he should not be alone. So which came 1st, the chicken or the egg? What exactly is the "biblical order of creation"?
How VAIN would it be to say that when man wrote the bible (yes man wrote it, even though it may be "inspired" by God, it was not written by God's hand was it?) that he got it 100% right? No incorrect wording, no misunderstood concepts, never poorly expressed. Wow, so we as men wrote, the bible PERFECT? Why hasn't heaven decended to Earth yet then? Our work here is done! Oh right I forgot, since it was being inspired by God there was no way there could be an error. That is because people are 100% true to God as rule. After all, look at the men who actually WALKED with Jesus. Heaven knows they never did anything wrong, and were completely loyal to him right? I mean really... they were actually WALKING with God, not just taking dictation, and they were far from perfect. So what iota of sense does it make that people writing the bible wrote is perfectly.
Oh and by the way... if you have ever read the bible cover to cover it would be unchristian of you to believe that it is 100% accurate because there are plenty of passages in it that not only paint God in a poor light but also even say God sins. So go ahead and believe your bible of man depicting a flawed God are correct. But me? I think God is better than that.
A scientist making room for God (hard to believe, no!).......2002-03-21
Hugh provides an argument against the Anthropic theory of the creation of life in the universe. His argument is based on the almost impossible odds that every physical law in the universe in extremely finely tunes to allow for life as we know it.
Eye opening.......2001-11-12
I found this book to be apsolutly facinating, ordinary things come out in a new light. The manner in which the book is written is a cozy comfortable read. Although the subject matter deals with very technical scientific equations and theorys they are brought out in a very easy to understand way and explained very well to the layman. If you have an interest in astronomy and nature and if you have ever asked the question how and why then I would strongly recomend this book.
Some problems reconciling Dr. Ross's theology with the Bible.......2001-06-15
Unfortunately, Mr. Ross's interpretations raise far more problems than they attempt to solve (as will be documented below).
I do not believe that those who adhere to some form of theistic evolution (God used evolution to create everything) or progressive creation (God intervened at various points in the process of evolution) fully realize that their position violates clear concepts revealed in the Bible--indeed much that is foundational to the very Gospel itself.
For instance..
Concept violated: the goodness of God
The Bible says 'God is good' and in Genesis 1:31 God described his just finished creation as 'very good'. How do you understand the goodness of God if He used evolution, 'nature red in tooth and claw', to 'create' everything?
Concept violated: Adam's sin brought death and decay, the basis of the Gospel
According to the evolutionist's (and progressive creationist's) understanding, fossils (which show death, disease and bloodshed) were formed before people appeared on earth. Doesn't that mean that you can't believe the Bible when it says that everything is in 'bondage to decay' because of Adam's sin (Romans 8)? In the evolutionary view, hasn't the 'bondage to decay' always been there? And if death and suffering did not arise with Adam's sin and the resulting curse, how can Jesus' suffering and physical death pay the penalty for sin and give us eternal life, as the Bible clearly says (e.g. 1 Corinthians 15:22, "For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive")?
Concept violated: the divine inspiration of the whole Bible
If the Genesis accounts of Creation, the Fall, the origin of nations, the Flood and the Tower of Babel - the first 11 chapters - are not historical, although they are written as historical narrative and understood by Jesus to be so, what other unfashionable parts of the Bible do you discard? The biblical account of creation in Genesis seems very specific with six days of creative activity, each having an evening and a morning. According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong. Do you think God should have inspired an account more in keeping with the evolutionary order, the truth as you see it, if indeed He did use evolution or followed the evolutionary pattern in creating everything?
Concept violated: the straightforward understanding of the Word of God
If the Genesis account does not mean what it plainly says, but must be 'interpreted' to fit an evolutionary world, how are we to understand the rest of the Bible? How are we to know that the historical accounts of Jesus' life, death and resurrection should not also be 'reinterpreted'? Indeed, can we know anything for sure if the Bible can be so flexible?
Concept violated: the creation is supposed to show the hand of God clearly
Dr Niles Eldredge, well-known evolutionist, said:
'Darwin . . . taught us that we can understand life's history in purely naturalistic terms, without recourse to the supernatural or divine.' [Niles Eldredge, "Time Frames - the Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium", 1986, Heinemann, London, p. 13.]
Is it not philosophically inconsistent to marry God (theism) with evolution (naturalism)? If God 'created' using evolution which makes Him unnecessary, how can God's 'eternal power and divine nature' be 'clearly seen' in creation, as Romans 1:20 says? Evolution has no purpose, no direction, no goal. The God of the Bible is all about purpose. How do you reconcile the purposelessness of evolution with the purposes of God? What does God have to do in an evolutionary world? Is not God an 'unnecessary hypothesis'?
Concept violated: the need of restoration for the creation
If God created over millions of years involving death, the existing earth is not ruined by sin, but is as it always has been - as God supposedly intended it to be. So why then should He want to destroy it and create a new heavens and earth (2 Peter 3 and other places)?
Starting to get the picture of where Dr. Ross's compromising theology leads?
See the Answers in Genesis website for volumnes of eye-opening information.
Books I would strongly encourage one to read instead: "Icons of Evolution" by Jonathan Wells, "Bones of Contention" by Marvin Lubenow, "Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!" by Duane Gish, "In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation" by John F. Aston, "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" by Michael Denton, "Astronomy and the Bible" by Donald B. DeYoung, "Refuting Evolution" by Jonathan Sarfati, "The Answers Book" by Ham/Snelling/Wieland, and "The Young Earth" by John Morris.
The unstated premise.......2000-03-31
This is a creationist book that is based on two premises, one that occupies the bulk of the page count, and one that is unstated.
The first part of the book details the growth of human awareness about the universe, and is a history almost any scientist would agree with. The result, of course, is that the universe is not infinite in time or space. Towards the end of this exposition, however, some paranoid-seeming remarks creep into the story to the effect that there was a conspiracy of anti-god scientists who tried to keep science from discovering the finite age of the universe, which as a student of the history of cosmology I can say is utter nonsense. If anthing, the reverse was true.
Once Ross finishes summarizing the state of modern cosmology, he concludes that since the universe is finite in age, life must have been created by God. His unstated assumption is that life could only evolve in an infinitely old universe. It is never stated as a central theme, and one cannot find it in a section title. Only by going back did I find it obscurely embedded at the end of some conversations in the cosmology chapters. One mention did come with bibliographic references. Many were technical papers with titles like "On the Information Content of Cytochome c". These are not famous papers, and would seem to require highly technical interpretation. In the absence of any discussion of their contents as related to a key assumption, one wonders if they are not decorations to the story. Ross would have done better to write the reverse: spend half the book explaining why life can only evolve in an infinite amount of time, and take it as a given that the universe is not infinitely old.
The end of the book degenerates into the standard creationist "scientific" interpretations of biblical myth, which horrify anyone acquainted with the scientific method of repeatable experiment, and whose transgressions are too numerous and space-consuming to be repeated here.
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Not sure of ownership, but sure of his bad theology.......2005-06-22
I have a book of Ross' by the same title, but the cover is different (remake?) but most of my problems with his theology come from his advocation of the "big bang theory" which has numerous scientific problems (quantized redshifts to name one) and serious theological implications. If the big bang were true, then there were animals before man. Animals that lived and died. The Bible says that man's sin is the reason why we die and suffer. If death was around before sin ("For the wages of sin is death") then what good would Jesus' death on the cross have been?
Very powerful!.......2004-04-18
The evidences Dr. Ross provides are very convincing and thought provoking.
This is not a bulletin board!.......2002-08-30
I was stunned by reading the other reviews of this book. It appears that the purported reviewers don't even pretend to actually review the thing; they are merely using the pages as springboards to launch off on their own hobby horse, be it Flood theology, end times theology, atheism, or whatever. I see virtually no correlation between the reviews posted here, and the actual content of the book. Those that do actually refer to chapters of the book seem not to have actually _READ_ it, but only scanned it to find something to justify posting their own flawed theology.
There oughtta be a law against posting reviews as a way of having one's say. These reviews can affect the sales of a book. But I guess the reviewers either never thought of that, or don't care. Some Christian attitude.
Well, I _HAVE_ read the book. It was my first discovery of Dr. Ross, and I thought it was wonderful. For those who actually care about its contents, let's get something very straight: Dr. Ross is an _ASTRONOMER_, not a theologian. His book is not about apologetics, no matter what you may have read to the contrary. He has one purpose, which he very clearly states: To point out that there is no need for a war between science and religion, much less a war between different factions within Christianity. As Dr. Ross carefully points out, there have been _NO_ -- that's no, as in zero -- scientific discoveries in recent years that are not consistent with the Bible's depiction of Creation. Quite the contrary, all modern discoveries -- the Big Bang being one obvious example -- point to a creation much like that described so perfectly in Genesis.
Therefore, says Ross, let's bury the hatchet. Let's stop fighting amongst ourselves, let's stop the bickering between scientists and believers, let's stop the bickering between Young Earth Creationists and Old Earth Creationists, let's stop the bickering between Evolutionists and Creationists, and for a change, let's just look at the evidence of God's nature, left for us both in His Word, and in His Creation.
A novel idea, wouldn't you say? A pity no one posting here was paying attention, or bothered to read and comprehend Ross's message. They would, it would seem, much prefer to bicker.
Children share your toys.......2002-08-28
It is so amusing to see how Dr. Ross has managed to tweek the insecurities of both fundamentalist Christians and materialists. Particularly funny are the comments of the reviewer who tried to catch the good doctor in a contradiction when he contends that God has limited satan's power to tempt humanity. "How can anyone withstand the temptation of a supernatural being?" Duuuhhh - because God gives supernatural help, Einstein. If we sin, it is because we choose to give in to temptation. We exercise our free will. The point is, we can't just say "the Devil did it."
Following close behind in amusement value are the folks who can't accept that the earth is more than 10 thousand years old. Face facts, people; there is evidence of continuous, gradual erosion all around us. And no, one gigantic global flood us not a sufficient explanation. The orderly nature of the sediment layers alone disqualifies this explanation. All in all, I highly recommend Dr. Ross' books for those strong enough to face the truth.
Excellent Changle to the religion of Evolution........2002-08-15
Its funny, If you believe that a God (or intelligent force) created the universe you are called religious. Yet if you believe the Theory of evolution (micro evolution) you are called scientific, even though it is not proven or even a theory by the scientific definition (Read God and The Astronomers by Robert Jastrow an agnostic if you don't believe micro evolution is a religion). To be a theory it must be testable and it is not. I think Dr. Ross does a terrific job of showing how science can be reconciled with the Genesis account of creation. Without losing ones credentials as a scientists. Also this book though highly scientific is written in a way that is very easy to read and understandable for the non scientists out there like me. I would hope that everyone who has doubts and questions about the Genesis creation account would have an open mind and give "The Fingerprint of God" a read.
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Star dust! That is what our physical bodies are made of. But the real us - the spiritual beings temporarily clothed in star dust - we are the stuff of eternity, organized by God. In this fascinating book, Arvin Gibson takes us on a journey to find answers about the mysteries of God's existence, and of our existence too. That journey takes us on three difference paths: near-death studies, the creation as understood by scientists, and Mormon theology. As the journey expands, we find that there are interwoven patterns from each of the paths pointing to an inescapable conclusion - that proofs of God's existence are everywhere. In this journey you will marvel at the illuminating accounts of people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs) where they received profound glimpses of life beyond mortality. The reality of those experiences, documented by corroborative evidence of what thhey saw and heard while out of their bodies, strongly confirms the existence of God and His influences in our lives. Next, you will see how our physical creation started with the "big bang" and expansion of the universe. You will follow that expansion of the universe. You will follow that expansion of the universe. You will follow that expansin from a small point of enormous energy to the almost limitless cosmos which we now see. The miracle of life and the imporbability of its chance formation will be exposed to your view. Comparison will show you the remarkable agreement between early Mormon experiences and the many NDEs of current interest. Finally, you will see how the Plan of Salvation, as explained in Mormon theology, provides a road map which overlays all of the paths to truth which this book discusses. Many fingerprints of God will be illustrated, and those fingerprints literally shout the message: The laws which govern our universe, the universe itself, and all life therein were created by God. We are sons and daughters of God, commisioned by Him to come to earth for further growth and development. Our destiny, should we so choose, is to become one with the Light and to share in the eternal glory and power of God.
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This ground-breaking work explains the Bible's fundamental mathematical code in easy-to-understand terms.
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Jury Out.......2005-09-21
As books on this subject go..not bad. This is a quite difficult subject. As always you have two obvious camps--those so ready to POUNCE on anything with a proton of religion/GOD and tear it to shreads in a nano second--case close, complete nonsense, your full of it, etc. Then the I'll buy it..where do I sign folks. Then me--I belive there are some good points made by the decenters, howerver they can't close this case for me. All that said, I still think this whole controversy misses the point that there is a Higher Power, wheather you call it Ain Sof, God, The eternal One, etc it doesn't matter. What ever IT is- it is the Alpha and Omega. It still amazing me that the general puplic doesn't grasp the spiritual implications of Realitivity...and still thinks in a linear fashion as if the universe marches to the call of a Timex wrist watch. God is the Master Programer--just look at the Genome. It's not too big of a leep to believe that God could have imbedded a hidden message in the Bible. Hebrew after all is a very mathematical language. But I ramble, if you are interested in this subject I do recommend this book as a good starting point.
Proof of Divine Authorship with A New Revelation.......2005-03-31
I have always believed that the Bible is significantly more than the sum of its parts. Del Washburn's work on the subject of the mathematical design in the Bible, a discovery he calls Theomatics, only serves to reinforce that concept.
The Original Code in the Bible is Mr. Washburn's attempt to communicate to the masses the nature of Theomatics and how its very existence cannot be disproved, only ignored, ridiculed, and mocked. He presents some compelling examples of how the system works and tries to describe the mathematical logic behind the irrefutability of the phenomenon. However in the short space of a book intended for a general audience, a through treatment is impossible. For the in-depth analysis he offers two other books, "Theomatics", and "Theomatics II", the first of which I believe is out of print, the latter is referenced often. While I have read his original work, "Theomatics", I have not yet pursued "Theomatics II". He also offers additional material for those who wish to independently pursue a scientific study of the phenomenon.
There are two aspects of Mr. Washburn's presentation that I find troubling. The first is that he devotes a more time lambasting the naysayers without directly addressing his perception of their objections. I feel his purpose would be better served if he presented the data with concrete examples to support his assertion that this phenomenon is not reproducible in other texts rather than simply state that the skeptic's claims are wrong. Show how the process fails in other works. All experiments need good control models.
The other troubling area is that Mr. Washburn concluded that his research has revealed deeper truths about what God is trying to communicate through the Bible. While this may be true, he seems ready to throw the baby (traditional hermeneutical interpretation) out with the bath water (deeper understanding). Since God is not the author of confusion, and since we did not have the benefit of the computer until very recently, it seems very premature and dangerous to draw these type of conclusions when clearly the plain reading of the text was all that we had prior to this discovery.
I would recommend this book to both the skeptic and any serious student of the Bible as a tool to validate the proposition that the Bible is in fact the Word of God. But consider that the spiritual truths as interpreted by the author are just that, his interpretations.
Is there irrefutable proof? ABSOLUTELY!.......2003-12-31
Mr. Washburn (the author of the book)has two mathemtical proofs that Theomatics is scientifically correct. He uses the scientific method in his book Theomatics 2 to prove that Theomatics is not a hoax. In fact he has made a scientific document called Theomatics and the Scientific Method that proves through the scientific method,as in Theomatics 2, that Theomatics is not a hoax, BUT, this time THE PROOF IS FAR MORE DETAILED AND EXTENSIVE. The latter is sold only (as far as I know) through his website. The proof is irrefutable! The critics that are bent on bringing Theomatics down are either emotionally upset because they have to restructure their ideological system because they have only relied on the surface text of the Bible, stupid or deceptive. The Fundamentalists fall under the first two categories while educated people fall under the last category. Their minds have been conditioned in the universities to denounce Christianity. Scientists and university professors have a deep rooted hatred for Christianity. Some of them are justified because the bible codes are recent discoveries, they are only familiar with faith Christianity, this form of Christianity leaves no room for logic. While other educated people hate Christianity because the Bible clashes with their emotions, while yet other educated people will not profess Christianity because they are afraid of being exiled from the realm of scholarship. These are the reasons why Theomatics is not received in the world of scholardom.
Also, just for your information read up on a person named George M. Lamsa (you can buy his books on amazon.com). I think, and many others that have come across his work do also, that he has resurrected very much of first century Christianity.
Happy trails to you.
???.......2002-07-12
A few problems I see:
1. It needs to be proven that different people would pick the same word groupings and phrase/clause limits that Washburn has done (e.g., on his Web page with examples, he explains which relevant or distinct words he limits his target phrases to, even admitting to omitting words as not essential to the thought). Otherwise, Washburn could be adding or subtracting preceding or following words to achieve the numbers he seeks.
2. The Greek New Testament text is replete with textual variants. No modern Greek New Testament text, or even any book within the text, is based on the reading of a single manuscript. Rather, the text is a patchwork of readings from the thousands of extant manuscripts, and is created by textual critics who have been trained how to determine what is probably the best reading when manuscripts differ. Get a copy of the Nestle-Aland 27th edition (the latest critical text of the Greek New Testament) and you'll see how frequently the manuscripts vary. Sure, it's often only a word or two, or a letter or two, but since Washburn's thesis is dependent upon calculating the values of the letters that are in the text, a change in even single letters will often alter his results. I know he explains in his first THEOMATICS book how he dealt with this, but it doesn't solve the problem. NO ONE can precisely say what the original manuscripts said on a word-by-word basis.
3. It needs to be proven that other pieces of literature do not show this same apparent numerical consistency between related topics. E.g., if one could show that phrases having to do with velociraptors in JURASSIC PARK exhibit a common mathematical relationship (e.g., by assigning numerical values to the letters of the English alphabet to make it correspond to how the Hebrew and Greek alphabets use letters for numbers), that would likely nullify Washburn's hypothesis.
NOWHERE in his books, to my knowledge, does Washburn provide answers to the above -- i.e., show that these objections to or questions about his theory can conclusively be demonstrated to be invalid, and that his theory stands the test of examination and comparison.
The God of Creation is a God of Numbers.......2001-06-28
The God that sent His Son the Lord Jesus Christ to die for the sins of His people on a cross of shame is indeed the God of the Bible, and the Author of it.
This book is "must reading" for all those who want to know the God of creation better!
I still do not know how theomatics works in the Scriptures, but this book is very clear, it is there, and it will not "go away"...!
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Holy Moments: Recognizing God's Fingerprints on Your Life
Lenya Heitzig
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Increase Your Sensitivity to God's Work in Your Every Day Life.......2007-02-25
Are you even aware of the ways God is working in your life? Unfortunately most people are completely unaware of the God factor. If you are in this category then you need this book because Lenya Heitzig does a masterful job of teaching you how to see God's intimate involvement in your every day life.
I love what she writes in the early part of this book, "I believe that holy moments are God's way of leaving fingerprints in His hope that we will discover His identity. Holy moments provide evidence of where He's been and what He's been doing. Through holy moments, God makes an unmistakable impression in our lives and points us toward heaven. The trick is to detect those holy moments. I've become a sleuth, dusting for God's fingerprints in ordinary places, such as my kitchen, and in unexpected places, such as airplanes."
Whether you get this book as a gift to encourage someone else or for yourself, I highly recommend it.
Supernatural surprises!.......2006-10-23
Holy Moments is a book that will take you on a spiritual journey full of supernatural surprises. You will discover how to see God's fingerprints guiding you through your life--even when you might not have seen Him! What a wonderful way to discover that your heavenly Father has always been with you--even when you may not have recognized His handprints.
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To a blind person, human touch is essential. In the absence of facial expressions, it reassures and comforts. But can you still feel the warm and soothing touch of an unseen God? Author and musician Jennifer Rothschild, who lost her vision at the age of fifteen, explains how God's touch works from the inside out, warming the heart, mind, and soul. It lifts weights that eyes could never see. It washes away the anguish of guilt, the bite of fear, and the ache of loneliness. With the gentle pressure of His hand on our shoulders, we can find our way through the darkest of nights.
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