[.ca] Number In Scripture: Its Supernatural Design and ... (ISBN 0825420474)

This book has been a great faith builder for me:
Bullinger shows the magnificent orderliness of the Word of the Creator. The book shows how God (YHWH) uses numbers to symbolize various concepts. Each number is always used to show the same concept throughout the entire 66 books. The number 7 is a good place to begin study as it is emphasized. Certain names and words are repeated 7 times throuhout the 66 books even though various men set down the words to paper. Only the Holy Spirit could have designed such order. No man nor computer could have produced such results. Bullinger gives many examples. He provides the original Greek and Hebrew texts in his examples.

Much more on scripture than title suggests:
This is a wonderful book. It is full of keys to understanding scripture. It is also a powerful resource for faith building. It is easy to understand. Although, as Bullinger writes, no book by a man that seeks to elucidate the scriptures is perfect, as is the scripture, this book indicates how perfect God's Word is.

Making skeptics believe.:
I have been searching for this book for some years, and finally found it here, in print still. Bullinger shows thru numerical values, gematria, and other mathematical means that "the Bible has but one Author...carrying out His own infinite plans". He makes the mathematician love the scriptures and the religious love math. One of my favorite parts is when he is explaining Dr. Milo Mahan's work on the principle of number 8 and number 13, and he gets passionate with the validity of the Bible, as over and over he demonstrates with gematria that every single name of the Lord's people are multiples of 8 and every one who were His enemies, are multiples of 13. It is one of the only books of its genre that wasn't exclusively written for Jews.

As Spock said "Fascinating..":
Don't miss reading the book along with the Bible. Some of the tidbits in this book are worth a king's ransom, such as where 360 degrees came from, why there are 12 zodiac signs, why certain numbers are used in the Bible, etc. The book helps in making the Bible fun to read.

A fair crop...:
This book allows the reader a fair look at some speculative reasons behind numerology in the bible. One can learn a lot about how God utilizes number to encode further meanings behind biblical accounts. Bullinger shows some of the "mysteries" of numerology, and extrapolates what he feels is divine influence. However, he lacks in some areas like page 21 for example. He states on that page that speculation into the mysteries of God should be left alone, and then in the very next paragraph he's back to presenting rhetoric and speculation. The entire book is speculative about a specific "mystery" that Bullinger feels he understands; namely biblical numerology. If you want a better work on biblical numerology, check out John J. Davis' "Biblical Numerology".