ANYONE? Do any of the numbers mean anything in this scripture? This is just a curiousity question. This was part of what was dropped from the original Bible. Is it hooey? I have no knowledge in this area and other than a guess at a reference to leap year, don’t have a clue. Not trying to prove anything, so no scoffing, just answers if you have any. Thanks. IWLN
Chapter 15
The elements of the sun, the Phoenixes and Chalkydri broke into song
3And the gates which it enters, these are the great gates of the calculation of the hours of the year; for this reason the sun is a great creation, whose circuit lasts twenty-eight years, and begins again from the beginning.
Chapter 16
They took Enoch and again placed him in the east at the course of the moon
1Those men showed me the other course, that of the moon, twelve great gates, crowned from west to east, by which the moon goes in and out of the customary times.
2It goes in at the first gate to the western places of the sun, by the first gates with thirty-one days exactly, by the second gates with thirty-one days exactly, by the third with thirty days exactly, by the fourth with thirty days exactly, by the fifth with thirty-one days exactly, by the sixth with thirty-one days exactly, by the seventh with thirty days exactly, by the eighth with thirty-one days perfectly, by the ninth with thirty-one days exactly, by the tenth with thirty days perfectly, by the eleventh with thirty-one days exactly, by the twelfth with twenty-eight days exactly.
3And it goes through the western gates in the order and number of the eastern, and accomplishes the three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days of the solar year, while the lunar year has three hundred fifty-four, and there are wanting to it twelve days of the solar circle, which are the lunar epacts of the whole year.
4Thus, too, the great circle contains five hundred and thirty-two years.
5The quarter of a day is omitted for three years, the fourth fulfills it exactly
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6Therefore they are taken outside of heaven for three years and are not added to the number of days, because they change the time of the years to two new months towards completion, to two others towards diminution.
7And when the western gates are finished, it returns and goes to the eastern to the lights, and goes thus day and night about the heavenly circles, lower than all circles, swifter than the heavenly winds, and spirits and elements and angels flying; each angel has six wings.
8It has a sevenfold course in nineteen years.
There’s more stuff about creation of the universe, but there’s too much to quote.
I’m reasonably good in math myself, and know people a lot better than me, but this is beyond them.
Thanks for asking. I’ll get back to God on that P = NP thing soon, hopefully before my dad is there telling him all of his old jokes. He’ll be too busy then.
If by objective evidence, you mean provable, I have been honest from the start that I can’t prove God to anyone. I have things that were affirming to me that would be discounted by people without belief. When my 1 1/2 year old explained death didn’t mean you were gone, just changed, someone else’s toddler saying nearly the same thing to my other daughter just recently, a really hard decision to start tithing at church when I was a single mom of three. I only made $1080. a month, I gave $108. the first month and 3 days into the next month, my boss(atheist by the way) gave me a $108. raise, four months before I was due one. I asked him why and he said I deserved it, I asked why $108. and he said he didn’t know, it seemed like a good number (see God uses Atheists to help believers;) ) Lots of other things that can all be explained away, too many to remember. A few that would qualify me for admittance. But it all made me smile at what felt like God’s sense of humor. So no, no proof. Sorry. Wish I did.