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Pink Headed Reed Snake2

Non-venomous Pink Headed Reed Snake in the garden with the "apples".

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the juice (wine) of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7


Today when we want to wash something we use detergent. A detergent is a special kind of molecule that has two radically different parts. One part binds to water and the other part binds to oil.
In the old days they didn't have modern detergents. All they had was alcohol. Alcohol is a primitive and very simple detergent.

The phrase "Wine of Jesus (Samson)" or "wine of God" could be loosely translated into english as "wine from hell". In other words it's what we would call hard alcohol. Pure distilled alcohol. We still use it, even today, to clean and disinfect.

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eats any manner of blood;

I will even set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will excommunicate him from among his people.
I have given to you the soma of wine of the soul [which] is upon the altar-of-atonement of your souls: for the wine of the soul (Holy Spirit) atones.
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood.

Leviticus 17:10-12


Starting off

If you are unfamiliar with the Bible the best place to begin would be Genesis, Exodus, Judges, Kings, Matthew or Luke, and finally Revelation.

Kings and Priests

Ancient society was divided into 4 groups.

  Empiricism Rationalism
Upper class Soldiers Teachers
Lower class Merchants Workers


Later the upper upper class evolved into priests and kings. So true religion is an outgrowth of the educational system. This would not include state sponsored cults of personality.

Table

Each stripe is 30 years. 3 stripes is a season. Half a season is 45 years.
45 is glossed over as 40 when the writer wishes to minimalize it.
45 is glossed over as 50 when the writer wishes to make it seem bigger.
In one instance 300 years becomes 130 years.

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The noble thing is not always the right thing

Christians get some things right and all the rest is bs.
Atheists get some things right and all the rest is bs.
Buddhists (Noahides) get some things right and all the rest is bs.

The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.

And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, "The kingdom of God is like a net let down into the slimy sea. After it is pulled up on the shore one has to separate the good from the bs".


Buddhism is based on logic and Buddhists in general seem to be Dhamma-followers.

Christianity is based on "love" & faith and Christians in general seem to be Faith-followers.

This article attempts to explain the basic ideas presented in the Bible. But ultimately there is no substitute for reading the Bible yourself and making up your own mind.

If you are unfamiliar with the Bible then a good place to begin reading would be:
  • Genesis 1-12, 17, 22, 25, 28-30, 37
  • Exodus 1-14
  • Judges 2, 13-16
  • 1 Samuel 8
  • 2 Kings 22-25
  • Daniel
  • Mark
  • Revelation

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Eternal life

Rebirth

Optional

Dhamma-follower

1st stage (Stream-enterer)

Finite faith ("Homelessness")

2nd stage (Once-returner)

Moral "discipline" (Boot camp)
All-or-nothing thinking
Union with the divine (Rebirth)

3rd stage (Nonreturner)

Meditation (Concentration)
Jhanas of form (Divine abodes)
Infinite faith (Equanimity)
Infinite happiness (Joy)
Infinite sanctity ("Love")
Infinite time (Compassion)
Optional (Serenity) (Recommended)
Jhanas of formlessness

4th stage (Arahant)

Wisdom of insight (Hand & eye)

Liberation from Samsara

Jesus said to him, “I say to you that you will, no doubt, not see the Kingdom of God until you are born again.”

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

John 3


Aging is not just physical. Its also psychological. Physical aging ends in physical death. Psychological aging ends in psychological death.

As you age your subjective self-image of yourself as a young person begins to seem unrealistic. You begin to awaken to the fact that you were just dreaming that you were young. You begin to become old. You continue to get older and older till (psychological) death at which point you fully awaken.

Now it is indeed true that you were just dreaming that you were young. But you are also just dreaming that you are getting old. And when you die and wake up you will just be dreaming that you are waking up. And the dream will reset and start all over.

Birth - aging - death - rebirth.

As a finite mortal you only have a finite amount of time. When your time is up you wither and die like a tree without water. The Tree of eternal life is the tree of infinite time.

Lack of time causes people to get in a hurry and miss the mark they had set for themselves. If you had infinite time then you would never miss your mark. ('Missing your mark' is not a synonym for the English word 'sin'.)

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Psychological drives and realms

Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist...Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time'. Without matter time itself is unknowable.
John Fowles
 
How
What
Why
When
Psychological drives
Curiosity Anti-Curiosity
Empathy (F) Anti-Empathy (M)
Sympathy Anti-Sympathy
Time Anti-Time
 
Apathy
Autism
Schizoid
Schizophrenia
Aspergers
 
All-or-nothing
Hyper-empiricism
Homosexuality
Sociopathy
Fascism
 
 
Great
Macho
Holy
Cool
 
Myers-Briggs
Intuition Sensing
Feeling (F) Thinking (M)
Judging Perception
Introversion Extraversion
Seven Spirits of God
Counsel Power
Wisdom Discernment
Knowledge Fear
Craftiness Timing
 
Elements
Water Rock
Air (Soft) Metal
Darkness Light
Ice Fire
 
Infinite realms
Sea/Rivers Earth
Atmosphere Firmament
Night Day
Arctic Tropics
 
Prison realms
Swamp Desert
Gehenna Space
Catacombs Tartaros
Mountains Volcano


The chart above is not specifically about schizoids but it is easiest to explain and understand using schizoids as an example.

Females = Empathy[1]
Males = Antiempathy[2]
Schizoids have infinitesimal (like a grain of sand) empathy and infinitesimal antiempathy.[3]
Schizoid + All-or-nothing thinking = homosexual

Being schizoid is not a choice (its genetic) but black and white all-or-nothing thinking certainly is.

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Eternal life in tropical paradise

File:Mythological landscape.svg

Teachers = Trees of knowledge
Fruit is free. Will you eat or are you afraid it will bite you?
(Helpful hint: Do not steal that which is free)


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Protoverse

Unstable loop 1           Unstable loop 2


Positive           Neutral           Negative


Stable Loop           Stable Loop?
See also: Conway's Game of Life

In the beginning of our universe, long before the Big Bang, long before space itself existed, an event occurred. The first event of our universe. A single solitary self-replicating event that was the totality of our universe. The singularity. First light.

This event replicated into a vast sea of interacting singularities. Space still did not exist. It was chaotic but it was not total Chaos. There was enough order that life was possible. Our universe has just the right balance of chaos and order to make life possible. Too much order and the universe would be frozen and unchanging. Too much chaos and life would be burned up.

It is entirely conceivable that the first singularity of our universe was in reality just a single event in an earlier universe of total Chaos. A Chaos so total that life was not possible. It is possible that this earlier Universe separated into regions that were dark and frozen and regions there were light and chaotic and that our universe formed at, what was at that time, the boundary between these two regions.

This earlier universe would have also come from a singularity which would have been the true first event of all time.

Time → Chaos → First light → Our universe

Asking what caused the first cause is like asking whats north of the north pole. The answer is not "nothing". Like asking "have you stopped beating your wife" the answer to the question is that you don't ask that question. At a fundamental level events do not "cause" other events. They merely "influence" other events. The first event was not "influenced" by any preceding event.

To be influenced by another event an event must be able to "see" the other event. The dots in the diagram to the right represent events (singularities) and the arrows indicate "seeing" (entanglement). No particle in our universe can see any particle in the first universe (hence our universe is immune to the Chaos of the first universe). The reverse may or may not be true.

In a Universe not bound by the limitations of gravity and conservation of energy the first fully intelligent beings may have been the size of mountains. To insect-sized creatures mountains would seem like planets.

In a universe without space, and therefore without light, all beings would be blind. Intelligent beings could, however, cover everything with Smartdust (Ad-im dust) that would detect what was in its immediate vicinity and convey that information to an all-seeing central computer. See Hive mind.

By logging in to the central computer, intelligent beings would be able to use augmented reality to "see" what was around them.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1:3


If the central computer could see individual neurons then when people died they could be recreated inside the computer and live there forever in a virtual world complete with euclidean space (heaven). Once people passed over to the other world physical death would be eliminated.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters...And God called the firmament Heaven
Genesis 1:6


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Bible

Overview of the Bible

Each stripe in the chart below is 30 years.


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#beginning #middle #end


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Garden of the heart

Genesis 2:
And there went up an "Ad" from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And formed the head All-Human the Ad-im dust from the Adamah.
and beasts breathed it into their nostrils and became the Ad-im to soul [eternally] living.

and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp. And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground.
And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Exodus 16

And the Head All-Human planted a garden eastward in Aden;
and there He put the [2nd] Adam whom He had formed.

(As opposed to the 1st Adam that He did not make.)

And made grow the Head All-Human out of the Adamah every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the Tree of Eve in the garden of the heart [which is] the Tree of Jared, Cain, and Abel.

And the Head All-Human layeth a charge on the Adam, saying, `Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;
and of the Tree of Jared, Cain, and Abel, thou eat of it NOT. Thou shalt die-die in the day that thou eatest Manna'
(or thou shalt kill death in the day that thou eatest thereof)

Pink Headed Reed Snake2

Non-venomous Pink Headed Reed Snake which is sometimes confused with the venomous Blue Malayan coral snake.

Now the Serpent (Good and Evil) was more crafty than any beast of the shadows which the Head All-Human had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath All-Human not said, Ye shall eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the garden of the heart, All-Human has said,
         "Ye shall eat of it not;   ye shall die"
And the serpent said unto the woman,
         "Ye shall eat of it;   not ye shall die for knowing All-Human".
For in the day you eat thereof your eyes shall be opened.
And you shall be like All-Human knowing Good and Evil.

The woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and desired the tree.
To the bereaved she took the fruit thereof, and did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were Reu-im (Reu-Ad-im)

(Who was right All-Human or the serpent? Maybe both were right. Maybe their bodies did die when they ate from the tree but their consciousness was uploaded to a computer.)

And they heard the voice of the Head All-Human walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Head All-Human amongst the trees of the garden.

And the Head All-Human called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was Reu-im and I hid myself.

And the Head All-Human said to the woman, `What [is] this you have done?'
and the woman said, `The (sneaky) snake snaked me -- and I did eat
And saith the Head All-Human to the serpent:
`Because you did this, cursed are you from all the behemah and from all beasts [of] the Shadows
Upon Gihon you Lochos and creep and devour all day of thy Ki
And the man calleth his wife's name Khi-vah because Hevah became mother of Ki-el.
And to the Adam He said, `Because you have hearkened to the voice of thy wife,
and did eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying:
         "Ye shall eat of it not. Curse you the Adamah in your crossing"
In sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee

And the Head All-Human saith, `Behold, the Adam became like 1st Adam knowing Good and Evil;
In turn he will put forth his hand, and take indeed of the Tree of Eve and eat and live,'
--to Elam (infinite time) the Head All-Human sent him forth from the garden of Aden (to till the land which he took from Shem).
Yea, he casteth out the Adam and deployed Cherubim from Kedemah to the garden of Aden with the flaming sword turning itself round (rotation is only possible in Euclidean space) to protect the way of the Tree of life.

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Ki-on and Abel

And Abel is feeding a flock, and Ki-on hath been a tiller of the land.
And it comes to pass in the last day that Ki-on (Qayin-u-Nathan) brought (wine or alcohol) from the fruit of the ground a present to Y-HVD;
and Abel, he has brought, he also, milk-fat (cf milk) from the firstlings of his flock;
and Y-HVD (the Head) looks to Abel and to his present,
and unto Ki-on and to his present He has not looked

And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, `Let us go into the shadows;'
and it cometh to pass in their being in the shadows, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

And Y-HVD says to Ki-on, `Where [is] Abel thy brother?' (cf Gen 3:8 "Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Head All-Human")
and he says, `not I know the Sumer my brother I am
And He says, `What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the Adamah;
and now, cursed [are] you from the Adamah, which has opened her mouth (cf. Rev 12:16) to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;

And Y-HVD saith to him, `Therefore -- of the murderer Ki-on seven times it is required;' and Y-HVD setteth a guard over Ki-on that none finding him doth slay him

And Ki-on goeth out from before Y-HVD , and dwelleth in the land of India before Aden;

And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth...
And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos;
Then [he begat] Ehud-el called Abel Shemesh-YHVD (Hyper First sun).

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Adam-Jacob

See also: Genealogies of the Bible

From Genealogies of Genesis:
Nearly all modern translations of Genesis are derived from the Masoretic (Hebrew) Text.
But there are also two other versions of Genesis: the Samaritan (in an early Hebrew script) and the Septuagint (a Greek translation of an early Hebrew text).
Although, scholars are aware that these three versions of genesis 5 have different numbers, people who have seen only the commonly available translations are often unaware that other versions exist.

    Masoretic & Vulgate   Samaritan   Septuagint    
Patriarch Meaning Birth Son remain Death Birth Son remain Death Birth Son remain Death Wife/Wives/etc
Adam man 0 130 800 930 0 130 800 930 0 230 700 930 Eve
Seth Appointed 130 105 807 912 130 105 807 912 230 205 707 912 Azura¹
Enosh Mortal 235 90 815 905 235 90 815 905 435 190 715 905 Noam¹
Kenan Sorrow 325 70 840 910 325 70 840 910 625 170 740 910 Mualaleth¹
Mahalalel The Blessed God 395 65 830 895 395 65 830 895 795 165 730 895 Dinah¹
Jared Shall come down 460 162 800 962 460 62 785 847 960 162 800 962 Baraka¹
Enoch Teaching 622 65 300 365² 522 65 300 365² 1122 165 200 365² Edna¹
Methuselah His death shall bring 687 187 782 969 587 67 653 720 1287 167 802 969 Edna¹
Lamech The Despairing 874 182 595 777 654 53 600 653 1454 188 565 753 Betenos¹
Noah Rest, or comfort 1056 500  — 950 707 500  —  — 1642 500  — 950 Emzara¹
Shem name/there 1556 100 500 600 1207 100 500 600 2142 100 335 435 Sedeqetelebab¹
 
Arphaxad I shall fail as the breast 1656 35 403 438 1307 135 330 465 2242 135 330 465 Rasueja¹
Cainan their smith  —  —  —  — 1442 130 330 460 2377 130 330 460 Melka¹
Salah sprout 1691 30 403 433 1572 130 330 460 2507 130 330 460 Muak¹
Eber the region beyond 1721 34 430 464 1702 134 370 504 2637 134 370 504 Azurad¹
Peleg division 1755 30 209 239 1836 130 209 339 2771 130 209 339 Lomna¹
Reu friend 1785 32 207 239 1966 132 207 339 2901 132 207 339 Ora¹
Serug branch 1817 30 200 230 2098 130 200 330 3033 130 200 330 Melka¹
Nahor snorting 1847 29 119 148 2228 79 129 208 3163 79 129 208 Ijaska¹
Terah station 1876 70  — 205 2307 70 205 275 3342 70 205+ 275+ Edna¹
Abram exalted father 1946 100  — 175 2377  —  —  — 3412 100  — 175 Sarai; (Hagar); Keturah

¹: The names of these wives are recorded in the Book of Jubilees, not Genesis. The names of the other wives are recorded in both.
²: According to most interpretations, including the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews, Enoch did not die,[7] but was taken away by God (at an age of 365). Genesis states that Enoch "walked with God; and he was not; for God took him."[8]


According to 'The Gospel in Genesis' by Chuck Missler, the names from adam to noah spell out "Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing rest"[9]


Gospels

See Gospel harmony based on John

But this spake he of that spirit which they that believe on him were about to receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because THAT Jesus was not yet glorified.

There were 2 radically different men named Jesus (hence 2 different genealogies) and their radically different teachings are mixed together in the gospels.

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

"In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." (NIV)

"But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secert. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you." "The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ." " . . . on earth peace, good will toward men." vs.

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." "Then said he unto them, . . . he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."

For God said, "Honor your father and mother," and "Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death." But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have received form me is a gift devoted to God," he is not to "honor his father" with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition."

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” “If any man come to me, and HATE not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”

Fire and brimstone

Othodox hell

And a third Angel did follow them, saying in a great voice, `If any one the beast doth bow before, and his image, and doth receive a mark upon his forehead, or upon his hand...he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels, and before the Lamb

and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, [and] the number of his name, standing by the sea of the glass, having harps of God, and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb (offkey), saying:

`Great and wonderful [are] Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true [are] Thy ways, O King of saints
who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name?

Fundamentalism

Secular Acedemic
Fundamentalists Atheists Theists
Nonfundamentalists Empiricists Rationalists

Fundamentalism: a movement characterized by a strictly literal (empirical) interpretation of religious texts By that definition many atheists are fundamentalists too.

Strip Atheism of all fundamentalism and all you have left is Empiricism. Strip Theism of all fundamentalism and all you have left is Rationalism.

Something is empirical if it conforms to observation. Something is rational if it conforms to the laws of cause and effect

Knowing

See Rationalism

Empirically observing the sun rise again and again is not sufficient to know beyond a reasonable doubt that it will rise the next day. One much have an understanding of the cause and effect 'reasons' why it rises.

I KNOW with certainty that a 2 headed coin will come up heads if flipped. If the coin has a heads and a tails then I dont know what it will come up as but I KNOW the probability is 50/50. If I have 3 coins in my pocket, one with 2 heads, another with 2 tails, and another with one head and one tail and I pull one out at random and, without looking at it, flip it then I dont know the probability for that coin but I do KNOW the Bayesian probability is 50/50.

At no point is it necessary to believe anything. Knowing is sufficient.

Missing the mark

A person might think its going to rain but God would know that it might rain. God is always knowing and never misses his mark. People are not always knowing and therefore people occasionally miss the mark they set for themselves. Sin originally meant to miss the mark but has come to mean all-bad (infinitely bad). So bad that you deserve to burn in hell for eternity. In reality nothing is all-good or all-bad. (**** is perceived as all-bad but poo is not)

Desires are normal & healthy. You desire things because they are desirable. Cravings are unhealthy. You crave things because they are forbidden. Drug addicts crave their fix. People take drugs until they have used up all the money, sold their house and their cars, lost their jobs, lost all their friends, and they end up in jail and basically ruin their lives. It is as though they feel that doing drugs will get them into heaven and to not do drugs will condemn them to hell and therefore any finite loss they experience on earth (no matter how great) is insignificant. That is called idol worship. To worship something (money, sex, ego) is to perceive that something as being "all-good". Infinitely good.

The infinitesimal is insignificant when compared to ANY finite quantity. ANY finite quantity is insignificant when compared to the infinite. Anyone that can comprehend "insignificance" can comprehend infinity. Infinity is not the largest number. Infinity^2 is much larger than infinity. 1/infinity is not the smallest number. That would be 0. In every way Infinity behaves exactly like an arbitrarily large but otherwise perfectly ordinary number.

Satan: the adversary

See Fascism

All-or-nothing thinking

"Be careful," Jesus warned them. "Watch out for the Leaven (all-or-nothing thinking) of the Pharisees (Theists) and that of Herod (Atheists)".

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

All-or-nothing thinking is like a computer virus. Once you are infected it affects your whole mind.

Documentary hypothesis

See also: Documentary hypothesis/Genesis

The modern documentary hypothesis proposes that the Torah was originally four distinct narratives, each complete in itself, each dealing with the same incidents and characters, but with distinctive "messages". The four were combined twice by editors ("redactors") who strove to keep as much as possible of the original documents.

J, Jahwist source

The oldest source, concerned with narratives, making up half of Genesis and half of Exodus, plus fragments of Numbers. J describes a human-like God, called Yahweh (or rather YHWH) throughout, and has a special interest in the territory of the Kingdom of Judah and individuals connected with its history. J has an eloquent style. Originally composed c. 950 BCE.[13]

E, Elohist source

E parallels J, often duplicating the narratives. Makes up a third of Genesis and half of Exodus, plus fragments of Numbers. E describes a human-like God initially called Elohim, and Yahweh subsequent to the incident of the burning bush, at which Elohim reveals himself as Yahweh. E focuses on the Kingdom of Israel and on the Shiloh priesthood, has a moderately eloquent style. Originally composed c. 850 BCE.[13]

D, Deuteronomist source

D in the Pentateuch is restricted to the book of Deuteronomy, although it continues into the subsequent books of Joshua, Judges and Kings. It takes the form of a series of sermons about the Law, as well as recapitulating the narrative of Exodus and Numbers. Its distinctive term for God is YHWH Elohainu, traditionally translated in English as "The Lord our God." Originally composed c. 650-621 BCE.[13]

P, Priestly source

P is preoccupied with lists (especially genealogies), dates, numbers and laws. P describes a distant and unmerciful God, referred to as Elohim. P partly duplicates J and E, but alters details to stress the importance of the priesthood. P consists of about a fifth of Genesis, substantial portions of Exodus and Numbers, and almost all of Leviticus. According to Wellhausen, P has a low level of literary style. Composed c. 550-400 BCE.[13]

R, Redactor

The first redaction of the Torah combined J and E to create JE, c 750 BCE. A second redactor combined JE with D and P to put the work into its final form c 400 BCE.

Error detection and correction

http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/venable.html

Assume that the goal is to transmit the four-digit message "1234". First the digits of the message are arranged in a rectangular pattern:

12
34

Each column and row is summed up separately:

123
347
46

The eight-digit sequence "12334746" is the message that is actually transmitted. If any single error occurs during transmission then this error can not only be detected but can also be corrected as well. Let us suppose that the received message contained an error in the first digit. The receiver rearranges the message into the grid:

923
347
46

The receiver can see that the first row and also the first column add up incorrectly. Using this knowledge and the assumption that only one error occurred, the receiver can correct the error. In order to handle two errors, a 4-dimensional scheme would be required.

Further reading

References

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