Check Out From Adam To Noah-The Numbers Game: Why The Genealogy Puzzles Of Genesis 5 And 11 Are In The Bible Outlined By Leonard Timmons Offered In Book
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I have read many books in the past on this type of subject and found some to be more "flaky" then others, but this one was the worst! First of all the author's attitude turned me off, he says "the Bible is a riddle and a puzzle written in some kind of code only for the person with "insight.
" He comes across as the first and only person who has had the "insight" to crack its code, just to arrogant for me.
According to his theories the bible is all about numbers hidden in plain sight and all you have to be is a mathematician to solve it.
To be fair the author has an engineering background so his style of writing is very technical, and unless you have a love of solving math equations much of what he tries to convey will be lost.
I'm confused. sitelink blogspot. com/ What do the ages of the first humans in the Bible mean Could people really have lived that long Leonard Timmons has found an ancient calendar hidden in these numbers, and feels this discovery is key to understanding the Bible.
Timmonss calendar is constructed by charting, on a timeline, the births and deaths of the men between Adam and Noah, fudging a little here and there to create a few more meaningful points on the timeline, and then discovering that it breaks down into four portions ofyears plus oneyear portion.
Turn that into days, and you have aday year, plus aday seasonal correction after four years think of our leap day. for calendar aficionados, is the Jubilees calendar from the Qumran texts, soliked because it plays nice, dividing neatly intosevenday weeks.
Timmonss analysis is founded on arithmetic combinations of round numbers such asorand of the number seven.
Lamechs age at his death,years, appears to be a clue, For example,is a nice number because it isx,is an excellent number because it is, Seven is recognized as Gods number, a perfect number, the number of days in the week, Readers of Revelation are quite aware of how important seven, and in particular three sevens, are in Biblical thinking.
Timmons is correct that numerology was important to the ancients, often used as a means of Biblical enlightenment.
Consider theof Revelation, and the miraculous catch offish by Jesus disciples, Timmons takes a stab at solving both of these riddles, which might be a mistake on his part while no convincing solutions to the second puzzle have been offered, making thepuzzle fair game for speculation, scholars are nearly unanimous and surely correct in solving thepuzzle.
See sitelink dubiousdisciple. com and sitelink dubiousdisciple. com In any case, I would not be surprised at all to discover that there is meaning in the ages of the earliest humans in the Bible.
Its far more likely that the numbers have some sort of meaning to the authors than that people actually lived that long! However, even after reading Timmonss book, a hidden calendar code seems a bit too conspiratorial for my taste.
Timmons may be on the right track with his “meaningful numbers,” but attributing the whole thing to a hidden calendar doesnt feel right to me.
That is, however, the books premise: Not only is there a calendar hiding within the ages of the earliest humans, but it has been purposefully hidden.
This is not just numerology,
its a devised puzzle, and in my opinion an inelegant one, The authors were not content just to lay out a calendar they carefully hid the calendar, purposefully confusing us, swapping the meaningful numberhere and there withthe reverse of its digits to confuse us, doubling and halving numbers here and there to bewilder us.
So who imbedded these puzzles Perhaps collators of the Bible while in Babylonian captivity, or shortly after they returned to Jerusalem That sounds somewhat believable, but Timmons thinks not he argues instead that the Bible should be thought of as an ancient educational textbook for the enlightened, a sort of test to divide good puzzlereaders from bad.
The Bible is a book of riddles to help the initiate develop his talent for insight, Were not just talking about the creation stories the Bibles authors have encapsulated hidden knowledge in its texts from Genesis to Revelation! An “insight school” that lasted a thousand years! Timmons actually suggests thousands.
Timmons rejects the Documentary Hypothesis which proposes that the Torah was written by at least four distinct authors, none of them Moses.
I cannot help but think he commits another error by pitting his puzzle theory against the Documentary Hypothesis it seems far more reasonable to me that the Documentary Hypothesis disproves the ancient textbook idea rather than viceversa.
Anyway, the hidden calendar is not really the important thing, Its just a discovery that should prompt us to read the Bible differently to reveal to us the surprising intellect and understanding of its authors.
Free now to explore a deeper meaning in the scriptures than a literal reading, Timmons next launches into his interpretation of the Bibles themes how the ancients thought of demons, angels, soul, spirit, faith, even God and its nothing like what we thought they meant.
This insight helps Timmons decode stories like the Flood and the Garden of Eden, and he provides two creative and fascinating interpretations.
Even Jesus parables and Revelations mysteries are revealed,
I found the book to be an interesting fringe theory, and fun with numbers right up my alley, but not something I found convincing.
However, my feeling is that there is surely aor evenstar book idea here, that Timmonss interpretations are ingenious, but that he overreaches by claiming them to be the correct interpretation as if the Bible writers actually meant their stories to be read this way.
While I don't disbelieve that there are mysteries hidden within the Bible and that the argument within this book might be true, I couldn't follow the argument, the numbers or the purpose of the riddle.
Mr. Timmons was kind enough to send me a copy of his book and the description of the book was intriguing, but I struggled to get through reading the book.
I could not fully agree with Mr, Timmons' theory about these puzzles and it seemed that he repeated his points numerous times which increased the book in pages, but not in value.
Once again, I appreciate Mr, Timmons providing me a copy of his book and I was hoping that I would enjoy this book more, but I just could not get into it.
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sitelink youtube. com/watchvgUOHz This is an interesting book, The author did extensive research on the subject material and I never knew something like a calendar was hidden within Genesis.
The material is explained in full, however, I did not grasp most of the concepts, I was confused from the beginning, but I kept reading hoping an explanation would help me understand, There wasn't any.
Obviously, I wasn't the target audience, Someone who reads the bible frequently would have a better understanding of the concepts displayed, This is a difficult book, Mr. Timmons shows how the genealogies of the patriarchs and the story of the flood conceal a complete and accurate calendar.
Having done so, he argues the purpose of the bible has been, to some extent, misunderstood, He posits that the people of the time would have used this material to identify those having insight, and to train them in that skill.
He then proceeds to a discussion of the relationship of insight, knowledge and understanding, From that point, he begins a remarkable dissertation interpreting the scripture from that perspective,
I have long been convinced the divide between science and religion in modern society is most often the result of at least one misapprehension.
In the first place, they are concerned with two totally different aspects of life, The second is one Mr, Timmons addresses very effectively. We attempt to understand the bible in terms of our culture, rather than that of those who lived in those times, and therefore fail to realize the degree to which the writings, in fact, aligned with science as it was then practiced.
In the course of his discussion, Mr, Timmons offers a number of thoughtprovoking views, You may or may not agree with him, but if you follow his argument, I can almost guarantee you will never again read the bible with the same understanding you had before.
I received a free copy from Goodreads First reads, "The genealogy of Adam in Genesis Chapteris a number puzzle that encodes a fully functional calendar "From Adam to NoahThe Numbers Game" shows you precisely how the Bible writers encoded a calendar into the ages of Adam and his children in Genesis.
It then goes on to show how the Bible writers designed their calendar puzzle so that anyone who managed to solve it would be certain they had the correct solution.
Proof of a highly accurate calendar encoded within the numbers of Genesisis a revolution in our understanding of Genesis.
It allows us to dramatically revise our understanding of the entire Bible, To truly understand why a calendar puzzle exists within the Bible, we have to explore the reasons why someone several thousand years ago would enshrine a calendar in such an ingenious puzzle.
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When reviewing a book that deals with such a sensitive topic as religion, one must be quite attuned to the diversity of thought on the subject.
I will not comment on the content of Mr, Timmons book therefore, as I have great respect for the views of all regardless of individual religious affiliations as well as those with no affiliations.
. I leave that to the individual to believe as they do and respect all! I have included a capsule description of Mr.
Timmons' book above.
What I will comment on is my respect for the enormous amount of dedication, research and effort that has gone into producing From Adam to NoahThe Numbers Game: Why the Genealogy Puzzles of GenesisandAre in the Bible.
Mr. Timmons has obvious put a great deal of time and thought into this book, and his extensive research and dedication in competing a very detailed book is to be lauded! Whether one agrees or not with his conclusions, Mr.
Timmons deserves a great deal of credit for taking a strong belief of his, spending what must be countless hours researching and writing, and producing a published book that expresses the deeply held understanding and unique view of his.
Regardless of one's personal beliefs, one must admire both Mr, Timmons strong dedication to his thoughts and the enormous work and tenacity that has gone into putting it in print! In this book Mr.
Timmons shows that there is a calendar hidden in Chapterof Genesis among all of the "begats" that most of us skip over in our reading of the Bible.
He uses the ages of the patriarchs to prove his thesis, I admit that I got lost a confused when he begins to talk numbers and subtracting or adding a year here and there.
And when he talks about "sliders" he left me completely behind, That being said I can see that there is some reason behind the writing of Genesis, I accept Mr Timmons thesis that it is a calendar and the very good possibility that the Bible was written as a textbook for those people with "insight".
Mr. Timmons says that the Bible is full of parables and riddles that are there to test the readers' insights into the riddles and parables.
Mr. Timmons then expands his thesis to the first eleven chapters of Genesis, The two stories of creation, the eating of the forbidden fruit, the Cain and Able story, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel are all tied together and in most cases are the same lessons, only expanded upon.
The quest of man is eternal life and these stories show how to reach that and how to avoid the things that might get in our way of achieving that goal.
His description of the Flood as actually being a siege of a fort build by Noah is extremely interesting.
He closes the book by looking at Chapterof Revelations through his thesis and also some of Jesus' parables.
Mr. Timmons has given me a lot to think about, I found the math part of the book a little hard to keep up and the diagrams that are included took a while to wrap my mind around.
But it is an interesting look at a part of the Bible that we all know the stories from and think that we understand them.
He gives us a new way of looking at those stories, Nine hundred sixtynine years old was a long life span and to those who have had difficulty in that one fact, then Mr.
Timmons' book is well worth the reading, I know I will be thinking of the the things that I highlighted in my reading and looking at those beginning stories a little differently.
I received an autographed copy of this book for free through Goodreads First Reads, The author assumes that the extreme ages given in the book of Genesis are not the actual ages, but must have been put there for another reason, so he endeavored to learn what those ages truly meant.
More to come as I continue reading it, but I have another book to review that I would like to finish first.
I read the Preface and first chapter to get a feel for it beforehand, .