Bible and Mathematics
Written May 16th, 2007 by Josh Rives | Email This
Previous attempts at applying mathematics to the Bible resulted in things like the Bible Code. What if someone level-headed with good doctrine tried to apply some math and stats to the Scriptures? Here are a couple of good examples:
At the Logos Blog you can find out who the most important person in the Bible is. They undertook the daunting task of determining every time a person is referenced to in the Bible. Of course this gets more complicated with Peter being called Cephas or Paul when he was called Saul. They also came up with how many books the people are mentioned in and how well distributed throughout all the chapters. After all of this they determined that the most important person in the Bible is no shocker… Jesus. Read more about everything they did here.
The ESV Blog came out with this visual of relationships between characters in the Bible. Also not surprising is that Jesus was connected to the most characters. You probably will be caught off guard by some of the other characters with numerous connections such as Alphaeus. Their set has some flaws in it that they explain, but it is a neat visual to play around with.
In a less scientific form, here is a test to see the most popular Bible verses. A Google search was done on every Bible verse in Galatians 2 to determine which verses were most popular based on the number of results. This test could have potential to reflect human behavior if expanded, since Google is the world’s portal to the internet. The results were interesting because the most popular verse from Galatians 2 by far was Galatians 2:20 while the least popular was Galatians 2:18. I guess this means that everyone wants Christ to live through them, but no one wants to admit that they themselves are transgressors.
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Impressive, but I would really be happy to see someone explain the Trinity in some sort of mathematical algorithm (but that’s just me). Anyway I guess you have to start somewhere…”crawl before you can walk” as they say.
i do not worship or trust in any numbers, however trinity is a number itself and there are many numbers in the bible that mean very much to us as christians. there is a couple of men that i have read that i feel is trustworthy, one is ivan panin and the other is vallowe, these men have greatly contributed to the understanding of how the bible was put together by God .ultimately it was God who decided what books belonged in the bible and He put His seal on it a mathematical phenomena. type in Ivan Panin and read some of what he took 40 years to write. as far as giving you a simple explanation of the trinity all i can say is that it is a truth taught in Gods word and if you know Jesus then you know GOd the father and you are also indwelt by the person of the Holy Spirit.