From: Elmer Botha
Date: 8 September 2010 10:01
Take a day's leave, and think on this...
The difference between a mere spectator and a performer is that both of them hear the same voice and perceive in its message the face of their own genesis reflected as in a mirror;
they realize that they are looking at themselves, but for the one it seems just too good to be true, he departs (back to his old way of seeing himself) never giving another thought to the man he saw in the mirror.
The other one is mesmerized by what he sees, he is captivated by the effect of a law that frees man from the obligation to the old written code that restricted him to his own efforts and willpower. No distraction or contradiction can dim the impact of what he sees in that mirror concerning the perfect law of liberty (the law of faith) that now frees him to get on with the act of living the life (of his original design.) He finds a new spontaneous lifestyle; the poetry of practical living. (Understanding the mirror identity of man perfects the law of liberty; look deep enough into the law of liberty that you may see there in its perfection a portrait that so resembles the original that he becomes distinctly visible in the face of every man you behold)
James 1:23 - 25. Paraphrase translation by F du Toit
Monday, October 11, 2010
The “impossibility” of Messianic prophecies
From: Elmer Botha
Date: 15 September 2010 09:21
“In an attempt to determine the scientific significance of these prophetic fulfillments, a California mathematician, Peter Stoner, made an interesting experiment with one of his classes. Each member of the class was assigned a particular Messianic prophecy for study, with the purpose of determining the statistical chance that the particular event could have been predicted without supernatural inspiration.
The laws of mathematical probability
The laws of mathematical probability show that the probability of several chance occurrences, independent of each other, being accomplished simultaneously is the product of the probabilities of all the individual occurrences. Thus the probability of all these forty-eight prophecies being fulfilled simultaneously in one individual, the promised Messiah and Savior, was calculated as the product of all the separate probabilities.
Forty-eight prophecies
Stoner considers forty-eight prophecies and says, ‘we find the chance that any one man fulfilled all forty-eight prophecies to be 1 in 10157 [one in ten to the power 157] (a number that would be written as one, followed by 181 zeros). 1 in 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.
All of which amounts to clear mathematical proof that the Scriptures must have been divinely inspired.”
Henry M. Morris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stoner
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Elmer Botha
0826353316
Date: 15 September 2010 09:21
“In an attempt to determine the scientific significance of these prophetic fulfillments, a California mathematician, Peter Stoner, made an interesting experiment with one of his classes. Each member of the class was assigned a particular Messianic prophecy for study, with the purpose of determining the statistical chance that the particular event could have been predicted without supernatural inspiration.
The laws of mathematical probability
The laws of mathematical probability show that the probability of several chance occurrences, independent of each other, being accomplished simultaneously is the product of the probabilities of all the individual occurrences. Thus the probability of all these forty-eight prophecies being fulfilled simultaneously in one individual, the promised Messiah and Savior, was calculated as the product of all the separate probabilities.
Forty-eight prophecies
Stoner considers forty-eight prophecies and says, ‘we find the chance that any one man fulfilled all forty-eight prophecies to be 1 in 10157 [one in ten to the power 157] (a number that would be written as one, followed by 181 zeros). 1 in 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.
All of which amounts to clear mathematical proof that the Scriptures must have been divinely inspired.”
Henry M. Morris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stoner
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Elmer Botha
0826353316
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