In Part one of this series on the last 12 verses of Mark, I gave some reasons why the last 12 verses in the Gospel of Mark may be part of the Bible after all. In this article, I want to present some exciting evidence discovered by Russian scholar Ivan Panin about the last 12 verses of Mark.
Ivan Panin devoted a whole book just to the last twelve verses of Mark.[2] I have included a detailed description of his findings on this passage which will serve as an example to illustrate the extent and consistency of numerical patterns Panin had also found in many other parts of the whole Bible.
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Many of us have heard of the mysterious "Bible Codes". What exactly is all the fuss about?
With the invention of high-speed computers a phenomenon has reportedly been discovered in the Bible involving what is called Equidistant Letter Sequences, or ELS, also popularly know as the "Bible Codes." Basically a "code" is a word or words found in the text spelled out over regular intervals, such as every 7th letter, or every 20th letter.
How do we prove these words found encoded in the text are not just there by chance, which is the charge of skeptics of the Bible Codes? One of many...
Did you know there is a way you could show that each of the New Testament books must have been written last? The evidence of the numerical design of the Greek text actually points to this absurd conclusion, unless...there is one mind inspiring all of the New Testament books!
What are some of the evidences that might show us that there is one mind behind the scriptures? In Chapter Nine of The Bible Can Be Proven, I describe another phenomenon Russian scholar Ivan Panin found.* This involves the number of unique vocabulary words used by a given New Testament writer. There are words in the Gospel...
Ivan Panin was a Russian scholar who was a master of literary criticism. In his early years he was a committed atheist but then became a Christian and soon began an amazing quest to which he devoted more than fifty years of research, uncovering many numerical patterns in the original language of the Scriptures. Ironically, he came from an atheistic country and saw when he came to the USA that many religious leaders were abandoning faith in the divine inspiration of the Bible.One of the patterns he found was in the genealogy in the first chapter of Matthew. To get an idea of what was found,...