Biblical Hermeneutics

PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN
► Referring to the Messiah: A stone (ehben) of stumbling and a rock of offence to both
thehouses of Israel (Is. 8:14)
► Referring to the Messiah: Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone (ehben), a tried
stone(ehben), a sure foundation (Isa. 28:16)
►A title for Elohim: the Stone (ehben) of Israel (Gen. 49:24).The word "
eben " then is always related to God, specifically to the Messiah, that's Jesus Christ.
This is a very legitimate word study.
(Alexandria School of Theology,Alexandria Branch,First Year 2007/2008;
Commentary on Genesis 28:10-22: Jacob's ladder by Mina Fouad Tawfike)
Hermeneutics;
Yeshua Is the Stone at the Base of the Ladder (Gen. 28:8)
Yeshua is the Chief Cornerstone (Eph. 2:20).
Yeshua is the Head of the Corner (Matt. 21:42; 1 Pet. 2:7).
Yeshua is a Stone of Stumbling (Isa. 8:14).
Yeshua is a Foundation Stone (Isa. 8:16).
Yeshua is the Foundation Stone of New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:14).
Yeshua is the Rock in the wilderness that gave water to Israel (1 Cor. 10:4).
Yeshua is the Rock that the wise man built his house upon (Matt 7:24-27)
2. The Hebrew word for "money," is mamon.
mem (40) + mem (40) + vav (6) + nun (50) = 136
The word for ladder sulam [ samech, lamed, mem] if spelled in full with a
vav(=6)[samech,vav,lamed,mem] it also has the numerical value of 136. The accumulation
mamon can drag a man down if acquired dishonestly but can reach to the very heavens if
used for charitable purposes.
In a sense these gemetria methods are considering that the original Bible contains codes and
these are simply attempts to decode it to get meanigs beyond what is literary. Methods used
are quite arbitrary and as such cannot be accepted as legitimate hermeneutics of Bible. It has
indeed led to gross misuse.
An extreme decoding technique was developed along these lines recently called Bible Codes.
BIBLE CODES
The Bible code (Hebrew: בתנ ‏"ך ‏,(צפנים also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of
secret messages encoded within the Hebrew text of the Torah. This hidden code has been
described as a method by which specific letters from the text can be selected to reveal an
otherwise obscured message. Though Bible codes have been postulated and studied for
centuries, the subject has been popularized in modern times by Michael Drosnin's book The
Bible Code and the movie The Omega Code.
The normal quote justifying the bible code is Proverbs 25:2 "It is the glory of God to conceal
a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings."
In the Bible code, one takes the bible in hebrew without the vowels, or a section of it, and
lays it out into a block of letters like in a cross-word puzzle. This matrix is then searched
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