The Mathematical Precision of the Bible

Abstract

The Bible is the word of God; an account of the creation of the universe, of the relationship God has established with man and of His redemptive plan through a pattern man, Jesus Christ. As a discipline, mathematics plays an interpretive role of explaining, revealing the hidden beauty of numbers and their patterns which are inherent in nature. It does so through non-refutable axioms, properties and theorems. The truth in the axioms, theorems and properties remain coherent to the point that mathematics is considered as the language of creation for the scientist who is studying the laws of gravity or the geometry of chromosomes. The bible is an ancient book. Events are recorded in a chronological manner with reference to numbers and patterns are observed. This article aims to unveil some words and passages from the Bible which have a mathematical character infused in them. We will use the NIV version of the bible in most of the reference mentioned in this paper. In the following paragraph, we mention some few words or groups of words which carry a mathematical fragrance.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p2055