{"id":87246,"date":"2023-07-25T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=87246"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:04:27","slug":"mathematical-miracle-of-the-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/25\/mathematical-miracle-of-the-book-of-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Miracle of the Book of Mormon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve come across quite a few Muslims recently who champion the &#8220;mathematical miracle&#8221; of the Qur&#8217;an. It&#8217;s not impressive at all and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s6-f1HYsfIQ&amp;t=4884s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this can be demonstrated by doing something very similar with the Book of Mormon<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 19th word of the 19th chapter of the 19th book in the Book of Mormon is the word &#8220;I&#8221;. How many times does that word appear in the chapter? It appears thirty-eight times, which is 2 x 19! That chapter has 5,586 characters, which is 294 x 19!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key phrases regarding Mormonism also appear in multiples of 19 throughout the text. For example, if you know the story of Mormonism, you&#8217;ll know about the importance of &#8220;engraved plates&#8221;. Well, would you like to guess how many times those words appear in that chapter? Nineteen! Other phrase counts include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Record of the prophet&#8221; appears 209 times (11 x 19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;His prophet&#8221; appears nineteen times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;By God&#8221; appears nineteen times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Written by our Lord&#8221; appears 76 times (4 x 19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Nephi, prophet of the engraven plates&#8221; appear 228 (12 x 19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, but what about structural miracles in the text?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From the first mention of the plates to the second mention of the plates are 304 characters (16 x 19).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From the first mention of the plates to the last mention of the plates, there are 1,102 words (58 x 19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Believe me, if we threw a computer at this and had more people diligently searching for numerological miracles, we could find plenty more. Weird Christian groups have done the same thing with the Bible and it&#8217;s not impressive when they do it either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come across quite a few Muslims recently who champion the &#8220;mathematical miracle&#8221; of the Qur&#8217;an. It&#8217;s not impressive at all and this can be demonstrated by doing something very similar with the Book of Mormon: The 19th word of the 19th chapter of the 19th book in the Book of Mormon is the word &#8220;I&#8221;. How many times does<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87247,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87246\/revisions\/87247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}