Oleson Joe Lyng - Things That Count: Why the King James Bible Proves Itself Internally to Be the Word of God

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Scripture quotations are from the King James Version except as noted.

First printing 2020 USA.

I dedicate this book to anyone who reads it and finds something good for his or her soul. I give all the glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

THINGS THAT COUNT

ACKNOWLEGEMENTS:

Rachel Hoogendorn: Rachel proofread this book and did a phenomenal job. Thank you so much Rachel. I cannot tell you how much I appreciated your work!

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CONTENTS

Things That Count

INTRODUCTION

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). I wrote this when I began to write Things that Count. But after that I drew a blank. I guess I should have just wrapped things up for the publisher and sent it in. Can you imagine a one-page book with only one sentence?

I havent the foggiest how God did all that creating, but I am certain that He did. What you are going to read in this book will astound you, or at least I hope it will. I hope you become so overwhelmed with the mathematical and other evidence presented that you will just drop to your knees in praise of our God. You will probably realize your own futility to even imagine Gods greatness. How did I get the inspiration to write this book you ask? I am not going to tell you just yet to make you want to read this book. I know there is a book in here somewhere in my head and I just cant wait to get it out to you.

Why the name (Things That Count) for a title you say? This book is mostly about number structures found in the KJV as well as in some of the modern Bibles. I also discuss cats a few times as a break from the number stuff. I bet you did not know a few things about the common house cat. For example, only the small cats purr. Lions and tigers do not purr. Cats seem to be sharing their contentment when they purr. Although this book is not mostly about cats, my wife and I have two cats named Koko and Pelli. I will probably detour you from time to time to get some cat talk in. Well anyway, cats can purr in both their in and out breaths. Cats only purr really when they want to, but they purr when pleasured and also can purr when pained by something or someone. The cat purr is at 25 to 150 HZ and some biologists think that this works as a natural healing frequency if the cat is injured and at the same time increases their bone density. I took the liberty to invent a new word purrific? Perhaps purrific is just a new word that I made up to mean something like the word terrific. When you have finished this book, you will get the picture. I really want to glorify our God who made both me and my cats.

I have a lemon tree in my back yard and this year it has produced so many lemons that the branches are dragging on the ground. While there are not infinite lemons on my tree, if each lemon represented a soul that God saves (not to my credit, by the way, because only God can save a soul), I would wish for an infinity lemon tree. I will be discussing infinity in this book. I think you will like that discussion.

Have you ever thought about how people move about such as: walking, bicycling, skateboarding, driving, flying, etc. Maybe your spiritual status is like someone just beginning to ride a bicycle. I hope you will be a rocket ship by the end of this book.

After Genesis 1:1, what more needs to be said? You either believe it or you dont. And by the way, did you notice that Moses said that God created the heaven and the earth instead of the heavens and the earth in the KJV while almost all other Bibles say heavens and earth. I wonder who is right about that. Did God also create several heavens or were they already there when He created the cosmos and 3-dimensional space we live in? You will have to read this book to find out what I think about that.

Some mathematicians have lived interesting lives. I want to introduce you to the lives of a few of them. Some of them are hard to figure out and they make my head spin when I try to get at what they are saying. Mathematicians have figured out that there are other dimensions out there somewhere besides time and space. Being out of time and out of space is probably like infinity, or is it? The only out of space I know about is when I try to cram some more things in my closet and the only out of time I know about is when I get an impossible deadline to fulfill. Somewhere out there is what it means to be out of time and space. And thats the fourth dimension!

The phrase things that count is the title of this book. What are the things that count in your life? Some day we will all give account of our lives to God. Is our life more concerned with the here and now than it should be? Whats really important to you and me? Mathematics, like all truth, reminds me that there is only one way to be right, but many ways to be wrong!

I hope to show you how wonderful numbers can be when one looks at some purrific number things in the Bible. So, my brain decided to end this introduction with that thought. Wow!

CHAPTER 1

KJV NUMBERS PHENOMENA

One of the things it is good to know is that you have 10 fingers. Kids learn to count by using their fingers. Ten in the world is the number for perfection. For girls a 10 means that you are a wow to look at. For boys a 10 has no meaning whatsoever because we are not so good to look at for the most part. You must be an atlas-type character to rate a 10 if you are a guy. Otherwise, you are probably a 3 or a 4.

Numbers can be used for counting or they can be abstract as the girly 10. You cannot tag anyone by their number so that everybody would give the same number for their estimate. Therefore, the concept of abstraction has caused many to have a feeling of being bumfuzzled about numbers. But what if some system of numbers is so obvious that everybody is forced to agree?

Take the number 1 for instance. Ever heard the phrase, Were Number One? Almost every high school football team is number one, at least in the eyes of their students. To be number one though is stacked with obstacles. Your arch-rival football team could defeat you.

Who is Number One in your life? Your Number One will be the source of your joy. On several occasions I have asked strangers what their source of joy is. The common responses are: my family, my job, my church, my golf game, my pets, the sunrise, the sunset, etc. Occasionally you will hear that God is ones source of joy, but not often.

The Bible says that God is number one. (Exodus 20:3 It also says that In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1 KJV. Right here I am going to make an initial plug for the KJV. If you read the NIV, NKJV, and many other Bibles it says heavens where the KJV says heaven. Could it be that God only created the heaven we can see in this verse? You know the sun, moon, and stars in outer space, although He lives in those heavens that are beyond ours? Maybe He created the other heavens at some other time. He would not need to tell us anything about His domain above our heaven at that time. Since there are reasons to believe that the KJV is the perfect inspired preserved word of God, as I will explain in other chapters, I believe the correct translation from the Hebrew is heaven. You and I are located on the first heavens Earth.