The Light of the World, The Light of the Life, The Logos of the Deity

The Logos

Jesus Christ is the Logos of the Deity in human form. This Logos, spoken to us by the Messiah, gives us an introduction to the Logic of the Father Deity: His Rationale, His Reasoning, the Way He Thinks: His Logic. It soon becomes apparent that the Logic of the Deity is completely opposite to Human Logic. As we become doers of this Divine Rationale, we prove its efficacy and everything begins to change for us: our thinking, our attitudes, our actions and ultimately our abilities.

Probability Evidence

What has probability got to do with Christian things? Much, since we will see that we can discover many useful things using probabilities, but firstly, let’s look at what is meant by probability?

Probability is the measure of the likelihood that a particular event will occur. It is expressed as a number between 0 and 1. An event with a probability of 0.1 is far less likely to occur than an event with a probability of 0.9. Expressed another way, the 0.1 probability is 1 chance in 10 of the event happening while the 0.9 probability is 9 chances in 10 of it happening. 0.1 can also be expressed as a 10% chance of happening, while 0.9 as a 90% chance of happening.

Consider a simple example. Suppose we count the number of WORDS in each paragraph of any book, to see how many of these counts are a multiple of 7 ( i.e. divisible by 7). We would reasonably expect that, on average, one in every 7 paragraphs would have a word count that is a factor of 7, since every seventh number in a series is a multiple (factor) of seven, e.g. 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 etc.. We conclude that the probability of this occurring by chance to be 1 in 7 or about 14.28% of the time. As an example, if I count the words in all the paragraphs on this web site, I would expect the word counts which are a multiple of 7 to be close to 14.28%. In fact for this web site it is 15.7% (463 paragraphs of which 73 have word counts a multiple of 7, i.e 73 divided by 463 multiplied by 100 = 15.7%). If I were to take a larger sample, like a book for example, that percentage would be even closer to the 14.28% expected.
What would you be thinking if the percentage was, say, 53%? You would be thinking that something has been done to sway the expected average to a much higher number.

Consider a second example. Suppose we count the number of LETTERS in each paragraph of any book, to see how many of these letter counts are a multiple of 7. We would reasonably expect the probability of this occurring by chance to also be 1 in 7, since again, every seventh number is a multiple/factor of seven.
Again, what would you be thinking if the percentage was triple the expected figure? We would have to suspect that the author of the text did some deliberate meddling to achieve this.

Let’s say we then count the number of WORDS in each SENTENCE in each paragraph of any book. We would also expect the same probability for the same reason, 1 in 7.

These three events individually all have the probability of 1 in 7. However, what would be the probability that all three counts (words, letters, sentences), each a factor of seven would occur in just ONE paragraph? By this I mean, in the ONE paragraph we find the number of words, the number of letters and the number of nouns are each a multiple of 7. The probability of this happening is calculated by multiplying the individual probabilities together. That is, 1 in 7 x 7 x 7, which is 1 chance in 343. Expressed another way, I would expect on average to find 1 paragraph in every 343 paragraphs to have this phenomenon. One can see that as the number of features of seven increases in the SAME paragraph, the probability of this happening diminishes by a multiple of each individual probability, i.e. in this case by 7. If we were to find such a passage, we would have to wonder at the difficulty of constructing such a paragraph and the time taken to do so. The degree of difficulty of constructing such a paragraph increases exponentially with each additional feature of seven.

If we were to find a paragraph in which there are seven features of sevens, the probability of this happening by chance in the one paragraph becomes so small, (i.e. 1 in 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 x 7, or 1 in 823,543), that it becomes increasingly difficult to believe that all these features happened in ONE paragraph just by chance. And if it is not a chance happening, it has to have been done deliberately, that is, by design of the author.

If another seven features of seven were also discovered in the same paragraph, the probability of this happening by chance becomes astronomically small (1 in 823,543 x 823,543 or 1 in 678,223,072,849) and purposeful design becomes the only meaningful way to comprehend such a happening.

Should it then be found that several paragraphs, even chapters in the one book all have the same design, we are forced to accept that this could not have happened by chance and that purposeful design is the only rational alternative explanation.
As we will see, this is the case with the Greek of the New Testament (and the Hebrew of the Old Testament), but more on this under the Menu headings of Bible Numerics, and sub-menus Ivan Panin and Bluer and Jenkins.

As we get to understand probability, we see it can help us understand things of great significance which are not immediately obvious to us. In modern day science, probability plays a huge role in understanding the analysis of data.
Of course, in the case of the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament, someone has to make the discovery in the first place but, with the advent of personal computers, much research is now being done.

The following five sub-menus of this page take the reader to diverse and interesting areas where probability determines significant conclusions.
Biological Science, The Existence of Israel, Bible Numerics, The Torah Codes, and Prophecy.

Wisdom is a tree of Life to all who take hold of her; and blessed are they that hold her fast.
(Proverbs 3:18)