what do you mean by the non-BS gematria? all I know of it, it's just counting and adding up numerical values of letters. is it the context then that decides whether it's BS or not? or something else?
I just mean that gematria is definitely used by high-level people (military, politics) to send coded messages and communicate in a discreet manner, and has been for millennia. It's basically the original cryptography.
But when it is done well it is very difficult to spot, and just randomly matching words that have the same numerical value won't usually be successful.
But a lot of the old and new testament has well established gematria that gives a deeper understanding of the text.
I think gematria is a bunch of BS, but this article contained good research and conclusions before it even went there.
gematria is most certainly not BS, but the way the VAST majority of people try to use it (including this guy) is BS.
what do you mean by the non-BS gematria? all I know of it, it's just counting and adding up numerical values of letters. is it the context then that decides whether it's BS or not? or something else?
I just mean that gematria is definitely used by high-level people (military, politics) to send coded messages and communicate in a discreet manner, and has been for millennia. It's basically the original cryptography.
But when it is done well it is very difficult to spot, and just randomly matching words that have the same numerical value won't usually be successful.
But a lot of the old and new testament has well established gematria that gives a deeper understanding of the text.