Religion And Politics 2. Numerology: Numbers in Religious Texts

Send us Fan MailIn a religious text, a number is not a number.  It is a point, a teaching. Those who think the Bible or other religious texts are science books are missing the point.   Those who think a religious text is offering you facts miss the point.  This podcast outlines several different ways that numbers are used and appear in a mix and match pattern in religious texts.  When I say that Jeff Bezos is a jillionaire, that is not a number.  I am making a point, that no number is really adequate.  Will someone in a thousand years find my statement and try to figure out the value of jillion?  People today would understand my meaning just as people at the time understood what those numbers meant when they appeared in those historic texts. This is a fun lecture, but one that students always found eye-opening.