The New Testament has architectural features that very similar to the Old Testament
• The Old Testament opens with the 5 books of Moses
• The New Testament opens with 5 Historical Books, the Gospels and the Book of Acts
• The Book of Acts is volume two of Luke; Luke volume 1 and Acts volume 2.
Historical Books 5
The Gospels 4
Acts 1
Interpretive Letters 21
Paul’s Epistles 14 (assuming Hebrews)
Hebrew Christian Epistles 7
The Revelation 1
27
• The Old Testament was compiled over several thousand years;
• The New Testament was compiled within one lifetime:
• Four Gospels plus Acts (Luke in two volumes);
• The Book of Acts is volume two of Luke; Luke volume 1 and Acts volume 2.
• Followed by 21 Interpretive Letters (just as the book of Deuteronomy is Moses interpretation of the Law)
• The Gospels tell you what happened and the 21 Letters tell why it happened
• 7 Hebrew Christian Epistles written by some of the others, Peter, James, Jude, etc.
• 14 were written by Paul (assuming Hebrews);
• Lastly the Book of Revelation by the Apostle John
• 39 in the Old Testament 27 in the New Testament = 66 Books
• Technically the Book of Psalms is 5 books = 71 Books
• The Old Testament was put together between 1,000 to over 1,500 years
• The New Testament was put together within one life time
• Pauline Corpus (and other epistles)
• Circulated with The LXX is the Greek Old Testament (The Septuagint); for instruction & worship in the Early Church
• The Old Testament was translated into Greek three centuries before the New Testament
• The Septuagint was 6 Hebrews from each tribe of Israel, 6 x 12 = 72 (Septuagint)
• Luke & Paul rely on contemporary eye-witnesses.
• Many of the Corinthians saw the resurrected Lord, they were eyes witnesses of the resurrection
• That’s why they didn’t have to argue the fact, it was because they experienced it!
Conspicuous NT Omissions - Not Mentioned in the New Testament, Why?
• Nero’s persecutions after A.D. 64., up until then ( A.D. 64.), most of the persecutions came from the Jewish community!
• Execution of James, A.D. 62. He was the leader of the Christian Church, it is well documented, but it is not alluded to in the New Testament documents.
• Jewish Revolt against Romans, A.D. 66.
• The Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. This is the most telling one of all
• A.D. 64. This is strong compelling evidence that the New Testament books were written and in circulation, before 62 A.D., prior to these events happening, they are never used in their arguments
The “Jesus Papyri”: Advanced Technology to the Rescue
There is a parchment that is Labeled the “Jesus Papyri” A segment of the Greek text of Matthew’s Gospel appears to have been dated before 66 A.D. Three fragments, with text on both sides, a total of 24 lines, a segment of Matthew 26:23, 31. 23 on one side and 31 on the other side. Corresponds to the Textus Receptus.
A scanning laser microscope can differentiate between the 20 micrometer (millionth of a meter) layers of the papyrus, measuring the height and the depth of ink, as well as the angle of the stylus used by the scribe (whether the writer was right or left handed).
• New Testament written in “codex” or book style on both sides
• Old Testament written on a scroll, written on one side
Oldest Known Manuscript
• Dr. Carsten Thiede, using a scanning laser microscope, and comparing with four other manuscripts:
– at Qumran (dated to A.D. 58);
– at Herculaneum (dated prior to A.D. 79);
– at Masada (dated to between A.D. 73-74);
– at Egyptian town of Oxyrynchus (A.D. 65-66).
• has concluded that this is either an original of Matthew’s Gospel, or an immediate copy, written while Matthew and the other disciples and other eyewitnesses were still alive.
Material in Common
Common Material Independent Contribution
Matthew 58% 42%
Mark 93% 7%
Luke 41% 59%
John 8% 92%
Jesus’ Linguistics
• Common language was Aramaic (Mark 15:34).
• Also Spoke Greek (Mark 7:24-30).
• Spoke initially Greek to Mary until addressing her in Aramaic (John 20:11-18).
• Pilate was fluent in Hebrew, Greek, & Latin (John 19:19).
Syntactic Peculiarities in NT
• Semitic sentence structure: Hebrew more likely than Aramaic.
• Mark quotes Luke in hundreds of places.
• Mark quotes Acts in 150 places.
• Mark knew the Thessalonians, the Corinthians, the Romans, the Colossians, and James.
• There are 600 evidences of an early date of Luke.
The Jerusalem School
A.D. 30-35 Hebrew Darfts
A.D. 40-45 Rough Greek Version
A.D. 50+ Greek and Aramaic Versions “Q”
Greek adaptation by subject
A.D. 57+ Luke
A.D. 58+ Mark
A.D. 59+ Matthew
A.D. 60? John
Dating of Paul’s Letters
Thessalonians Spring 50; 50-51
1 Corinthians Spring 55
1 Timothy Fall 55
2 Corinthians Spring 56
Galatians Fall 56
Romans Spring 57
Titus Fall 57
Philippians Summer 58
Colossians Summer 58
Ephesians Summer 58
2 Timothy Fall 58
Other NT Books
James 47 – 48
Jude 61 – 61
Peter 61 – 62
Acts 57 – 62
1, 2, 3 John 60 – 65
1 Peter Spring 65
Gospels 40 – 65
— John A.T. Robinson
• The Jews of the first century got really upset at the Christians because they had found out that the Christians had adopted the Septuagint a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible as their Bible.
• So they had the “Council of Jamnia” because they had a real problem to solve, Judaism relies on sacrifices. This is after the Temple has been destroyed, so they are wondering what to do if they can’t offer sacrifices (there is no remission of sins without a sacrifice).
Textus Receptus
• End of the 3rd century, Lucian of Antioch compiled the Greek text to become the primary standard throughout the Byzantine world.
• The center of the world was not Rome any more, Constantine moved it to Byzantine
• The dominant language is no longer Latin, but Greek
• The Textus Receptus (The Received Text” was its connotation from the 6th – 14th century, the majority of New Testament texts were produced in Byzantium in Greek.
• This was the primary Christian publication center of the world.
• In 1525: Erasmus, is using 5 or 6 the Byzantine manuscripts, compiled first Greek text produced on a printing press. Basis for Textus Receptus. To make available
English Bible
• The people who did these translations were doing them under the penalty of death, it was a trafficking crime to translate the Bible by the mediaeval Church, they became martyrs
• 1382 Wycliffe Bible (from Vulgate)
• 1525 Erasmus’ NT (Greek; TR basis)
• 1526 Tyndale Bible (1st English NT)
• 1534 Luther’s Bible (1st German)
• 1535 Coverdale’s (1st complete)
• 1537 Matthew Bible (from Tyndale’s notes)
• 1539 Great Bible (Coverdale’s revision)
• 1560 Geneva Bible (Whittingham, et al)
• 1568 Bishop’s Bible (Revised “Great Bible”)
• 1609 Douay/Rheims Bible (Vulgate rendering)
• 1611 King James Version - They had 5,556 manuscripts to translate from
King James Version
• James VI of Scotland becomes King of England (known as “James I”)
• 1607: More than 50 scholars, through prayerful committees.
• 5556 manuscripts available; major reliance on Textus Receptus.
• Heralded as “the noblest monument of English prose.”
History of the English Bible
The Alexandrian Codices
• Codex Alexandrinus: About 1630, Codex Alexandrinus was brought to England. A 5th- century manuscript containing the entire New Testament.
• Codex Siniaticus: 200 years later, a German scholar name Constantin von Tischendorf discovered the Codex Sinaiticus in St. Catherine’s
• Monastery at (the traditional) Mt. Sinai. This manuscript, dated around A.D. 350, is one of the two oldest manuscripts of the Greek New Testament.
• Codex Vaticanus: Is corrupted. This codex had been in the Vatican Library since at least 1481, but was not made available to scholars until the middle of the 19th century.
• Dated slightly earlier (A.D. 325) than Codex
Sinaiticus, is regarded by many as one of the most reliable copies of the Greek New Testament.
• (These have become controversial for a number of reasons.)
Textus Receptus Dethroned
• 1730s: Johannes Albert Bengel, produced a text that deviated from the Textus Receptus relying on the earlier manuscripts.
• 1831: Karl Lachman, produced a text that represented the 4th century manuscripts.
• 1857-72: Samuel Tregelles, self-taught in Latin, Hebrew and Greek, spent his lifetime in publishing a Greek text that came out—in six parts—from 1857 to 1872.
Westcott & Hort
• Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort were Angli can churchmen who had contempt for the Textus Receptus.
• They began a work in 1853 that resulted, after 28 years, in a Greek New Testament, based on the corrupt Vaticanus and Siniaticus.
• Both were influenced by Origen and others who denied the deity of Jesus Christ and embraced the prevalent Gnostic heresies of the period from the headquarters of the Gnostics, Alexandria.
• There are over 3,000 contradictions in the four gospels alone between these manuscripts. They changed the traditional Greek text in 8,413 places.
Gnostic Heresies
• Satan’s Strategy (Genesis 3: doubt; additions and amendments…)
• 55 AD: Twisting begins (e.g., 2 Peter 2:1-3; 1 John 1, 4).
• Disparaged existing writings; mixed Greek philosophy and concepts with the revelation of God.
Expurgating Scriptures
• Gnostics known for mutilating the Scriptures: 156 AD, Irenaeus (of the Gnostics): “Wherefore they and their followers have betaken themselves to mutilating the Scriptures which they themselves have shortened.”
• Headquarters for Gnostics: Alexandria!
Authentication Codes?
• An automatic security monitor, watching over every single letter of the text, that doesn’t rust or wear out, running continually over several thousand years…
• Fingerprint signature of the Author
• Non-compromisable design
Sevens in the Bible
• Occur in over 600 passages: some overt, some structural, and some hidden.
• Heptadic Structures as a signature?
Design Challenge: A Genealogy
• The number of words must be divisible by 7, evenly.
• The number of letters must also be divisible by 7, evenly.
• The number of vowels and the number of consonants must also be
divisible by 7.
• The number of words that begin with a vowel must be divisible by 7.
• The number of words that begin with a consonant must be divisible
by 7.
• The number of words that occur more than once must be divisible
by 7.
• The number of words that occur in more than one form must be
divisible by 7.
• The number of words that occur in only one form must be divisible
by 7.
• The number of nouns shall be divisible by 7.
• Only 7 words shall not be nouns.
• The number of names shall be divisible by 7.
• Only 7 other kinds of nouns are permitted.
• The number of male names shall be divisible by 7.
• The number of generations shall be divisible by 7. (21)
• This is the genealogy of Jesus Christ found in Matthew (in Greek)!
Dr. Ivan Panin
• Born in Russia Dec 12, 1855;
• Exiled at an early age; emigrated to Germany, and the U.S.
• Graduated from Harvard in 1882;
• Discovered Christ;
• Discovered the heptadic structures underlying the Biblical text in
1890;
• Committed the rest of the 50 years of his life generating 43,000 pages
of discoveries;
• Went to his Lord on October 30, 1942.
Last 12 Verses of Mark?
• Westcott & Hort: Last part of Mark (16:9-20) = a later addition?
• A.D. 150: Irenaeus quotes it in his commentary! (He must have been
clairvoyant.)
• Hypolatus, also, in 2nd century…several hundred years before the
Alexandrian Codices.
The Last 12 Verses of Mark
• Appearance to Mary; disciples disbelief; 9-11
• Subsequent appearances; 11-18
• Conclusion 19-20
• Simple narrative 9-14
• Christ’s discourse 15-18
• Conclusion 19-20
• Words 175 (7 x 25)
• Vocabulary 98 (7 x 7 x 2)
• Letters 553 (7 x 79)
- Vowels 294 (7 x 42)
- Consonants 259 (7 x 37)
Vocabulary
• Total Vocabulary 98 (7 x 14)
• Found before in Mark 84 (7 x 12)
• Only here 14 (7 x 2)
• Used in Lord’s address 42 (7 x 6)
• Not part of His vocab. 56 (7 x 8)
Chances of Multiples of 7
For 2 72 = (7 x 7) 49
For 3 73 = (7 x 7 x 7) 343
For 4 74 = (7 x 7 x 7 x 7) etc. 2,401
For 5 75 16,807
For 6 76 117,649
For 7 77 823,543
For 8 78 5,764,801
For 9 79 40,353,607
Would you like to try this?
• 8 hrs/day, 40 hrs/wk, 50 weeks/yr = 2000 hrs/yr, or 120,000 min/yr
• 79 chances = 40,353,607 attempts @ average of 10 minutes/attempt
= 403,536,070 minutes or 3,362 years! (It gets worse…)
Words
• Words, total 175 (7 x 25)
• Address of the Lord 56 (7 x 8)
• Rest of the passage 119 (7 x 17)
• vv.9-11 35 (7 x 5)
• vv.12-18 105 (7 x 15)
• v.12 14 (7 x 2)
• vv.13-15 35 (7 x 5)
• vv.16-18 56 (7 x 8)
• vv.19-20 35 (7 x 5)
Greek Alphanumerics
*Vau (6), koppa (90), and samsi (900), later became extinct.
Numerical (Gematrical) Values
Total 106,663 (7 x 14,809)
vv9-11 17,213 (7 x 2,459)
v.9 11,795 (7 x 1,685)
v.10 5,418 (7 x 774)
1st word 98 (7 x 14)
Middle 4,529 (7 x 647)
Last word 791 (7 x 113)
v.11 11,795 (7 x 1,685)
vv.12-20 86,450 (7 x 12,350)
Vocabulary
• Total 98 (7 x 14)
• Not before in Mark 14 (7 x 2)
• Found later in NT 7 (7 x 1)
• Occurrences 35 (7 x 5) times
• Numeric value 8,246 (7 x 1,178)
• v.20 vocabulary 14 (7 x 2)
• found previously 7 (7 x 1)
• found only here 7 (7 x 1)
Word Forms
Total Forms 133 (7 x 19)
Value of total 89,663 (7 x 12,809)
Occur once 112 (7 x 16)
Occurring more than once 21 (7 x 3)
Occurring 63 times 63 (7 x 9)
Total Occurrences: 112 + 63 = 175 (7 x 25)
Total Value 103,663 (7 x 14,809)
qana,s,simoj, deadly
• Not found elsewhere in New Testament
– Has a numeric value of 581 (7 x 83)
• Is preceded
– in the vocabulary by 42 (7 x 6) words
– in the passage itself by 126 (7 x 18) words
Chances of Multiples of 7
For 2 72 = (7 x 7) 49
For 3 73 = (7 x 7 x 7) 343
For 4 74 = (7 x 7 x 7 x 7) etc. 2,401
For 5 75 16,807
For 6 76 117,649
For 7 77 823,543
For 8 78 5,764,801
For 9 79 40,353,607
For 10 710 282,475,249
For 11 711 1,977,326,743
For 12 712 13,841,287,201
For 13 713 96,889,010,047
For 14 714 678,223,072,849
For 15 715 4,747,561,509,943
For 16 716 33,232,930,569,601
For 17 717 232,630,513,987,207
For 18 718 1,628,413,597,910,449
For 19 719 11,398,895,185,373,143
For 20 720 79,792,266,297,612,001
For 21 721 558,545,864,083,284,007
For 22 722 3,909,821,048,582,988,049
For 23 723 27,368,747,340,080,916,343
For 24 724 191,581,231,380,566,414,401
For 25 725 1,341,068,619,663,964,900,807
For 26 726 9,387,480,337,647,754,305,649
For 27 727 65,712,362,363,534,280,139,543
For 28 728 459,986,536,544,739,960,976,801
For 29 729 3,219,905,755,813,179,726,837,607
For 30 730 22,539,340,290,692,258,087,863,249
For 31 731 157,775,382,034,845,806,615,042,743
For 32 732 1,104,427,674,243,920,646,305,299,201
For 33 733 7,730,993,719,707,444,524,137,094,407
For 34 734 54,116,956,037,952,111,668,959,660,849
Still want to try?
• 734 = ~5.4 x 1028 tries would be needed.
• There are ~3.15 x 107 sec/year;
• 400 million tries per second?
• At 4 x 108 tries/sec, it would take about 4.3 x 1012 computer-years:
= 1,000,000 supercomputers 4,300,000 years?
And that’s with only 34 distinctive features of sevens; Panin has identified
75!
Comprehensive Design
The New Testament consists of 27 books.
Terminations: each book begins and ends with a word: 2 x 27 = 54 words:
Total vocabulary of 28 (7 x 4)
In the Gospels 7 (7 x 1)
Total gematrical value 46,949 (7 x 6707)
Value of the shortest word, o, 70 (7 x 10)
Value of longest word, avpvpvpoka,l,l,luyij,
1512 (7 x 6 x 6 x 6)
Unique Vocabularies?
• Vocabulary unique to Matthew;
– occurs 42 times (7 x 6).
– with 126 letters (7 x 18).
• How could this have been organized?
– Prior agreement with other authors?
– Or was this Gospel written last?
• Gospel of Matthew.
• Gospel of Mark.
• Gospel of Luke.
• Gospel of John.
• James, Peter, Jude, and Paul …each “written last.”
Inter-Testament Heptadic Bridges
OT NT Total
“Hallelujah” 24 4 28 7 x 4
“Hosanna” 1 6 7 7 x 1
“Shepherd” 12 9 21 7 x 3
“Jehovah Sabaoth” 285 2 287 7 x 41
“Corban” 82 2 84 7 x 12
“Milk” 44 5 49 7 x 7
“Isaac” 112 14 126 7 x 18
“Aaron” 443 5 448 7 x 16
“Abaddon” 6 1 7 7 x 1
“Christ at the right hand of God” 2 19 21 7 x 3
“After Melchizedek” 1 6 7 7 x 1
“Stone ...refused...headstone...” 1 6 7 7 x 1
“Love thy neighbor as thyself” 1 6 7 7 x 1
“Uncircumcision of the heart” 6 1 7 7 x 1
Why we accept the Bible
• The authentication of Christ:
– LXX: over 300 detailed specifications.
– Daniel “70 Weeks” undeniable.
• The authentication by Christ:
– The Torah.
– Daniel, et al.
• Integrated Design:
– Transcendental Origin.
Integrated Design
• 66 Separate Books
– Penned by over 40 different individuals
– Over several thousand years
• Design anticipates, in detail, events before they happen
– From outside our time domain
Hidden Authentication Codes
• Microcodes.
• Macrocodes: Genesis 5; Genesis 22; Ruth; Joshua.
• Transcendent Numerical Design.
How Can You Know?
John 7:17
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of
God, or whether I speak of myself
One Integrated Design
The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed;
The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.
Next Time: The Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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