did God drop out of 5th grade?, Whats the value of Pi according to the Bible?
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Pi is never mentioned in the Bible; it is implied!   We (and let me repeat, we) deduce that pi is the 30 cubits around by 10 cubits brim to brim simplifies to just 3.    \n\nThe translations of the Bible over the span of mankind have changed the wordings and even the meanings of some verses.\nSince the original author(s) of Kings was inspired by God they would have spent their minds on faith and poetic emotion rather than intense technical information such as describing decimals.  The information for someone building or doing basic construction can and easily get by with just an approximate value of 3
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YES!!! "Biblical Mathematics"!!! \nAWESOME AND STAYS AWAY FROM NUMEROLOGY!!\n\nI had it but gave it to a minister who teaches College Physics. He was ecstatic! \n\nMine also came with a cassette so you could listen to it as well! \n\nHow awesome! God just brought that book to my mind today, making me feel as though I should get another one and read it again...and now you ask this? Hmmmmm
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A crude approximation to pi. The Babylonians had a better one 355/113 which is 3.141592
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Scott, I do agree with you.  However, I do find things like this to be very interesting, and it is amazing to find how some things do relate to each other symbolically.  I'm not entirely sure of the accuracy of these, but I think that they are correct.  \n\n1=God, begining, source, unity, first.\n2=number of witness (in the mouth of two or more witnesses), friendship\n3=Godhead, trinity, divine completness, perfect testimony\n4=number of earth, creation, world, four gospels, four winds, four seasons, four corners of the earth.  \n5=grace, atonement(this is probably the meaning you were referencing), life, the cross, five-fold ministeries. \n6=number of man, beast, satan, idol.\n7=perfectio, completness, number of book of Revelation, finished, day of rest, (used 600 times in the Bible)\n8=resurrection, new beginings, put on new man.\n9=harvest, ministry, fullness, friutfullness, number of gifts of the Holy Spirit(maybe that are mentioned???), number of birthing(baby born in 9 months).\n10=number of law, order, government, restoration, antichrist kingdom, trial, testing, responsibiblity, tithe\n11=incompletness, disorganization, disintegration, disorder, lawlessness, need for apostolic fullness (11 apostles after Judas hanged himself).\n12=divine government, apostolic fullness.\n13=rebellion/backsliding, apostacy\n14=passover\n15=spiritual order\n16=free spirit, without bounderies, without limitation, without law therefore without sin ROMANS 4:15, salvation.\n17=spiritual void\n18=put on jugdment, destruction, captivity, overcome put on spririt of Christ (Judges 10:7-8, Luke 13:4, 3:11, 16)\n19=barren, repentant, ashamed, selflessness, without self rightousness (2 Samuel 2:30, Romans 6:21).\n20= can either mean holy, tried and approved or unholy and found wanting.\n24=priestly courses, govermental perfection\n30=consecration, maturity for ministry(I would guess this is because Jesus began His ministry at age 30)\n40=probation, testing, ending in victory or defeat.\n50=number of pentecost, liberty, freedom, jubilee.\n70=prior to increase of representive of a multitude.\n75=number of separation, cleansing, purification.\n100=fullness, full measure, full recompense, full reward, ect. (Genesis 26:12, Mark :10:30)\n120=end of all flesh, beginning of life in the Spirit.\n124=number of God's ultimate in creation and redemption.\n163=number of God's electm revival, ingathering, harvest.\n300=number of faithful remnant.\n666=antichrist, satan, beast.\n1000=maturity, full stature (Isaiah 17:33,5, Ephesians 4:13)\n\nThese are the numbers that I know of, I'm not sure of the valitidy of all of them, but I hope this helps!  These are fun to look at tho, even tho they aren't the whole purpose of the Bible, keep that in mind.  But is IS interesting to see how things weave together, and it is another proof that the Bible was inspired by God, not randomly written by a bunch of different men.  \n\n2 Timothy 3:16\n\n  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training is righteousness.\n\n\nGod bless!!
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Percy,\n\nI think the story goes, he rose three days later.\n\nAm I right?\n\n\nAdded 1/28/06 @ 12:32 EST:\n\nMr. Percy:\n\nI see what you're wanting, but I'm not sure what a matter of mere HOURS makes any difference in terms of biblical facts as interpreted by scholars and what can be proved by modern science...\n\nI'm sure this matter has been discussed and hashed out in the past two-thousand or so years...I'm not aware of the study, nor am I able to direct you to a verifiable source.\n\nGood luck!
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Interesting.  The Lord has put many in my life. Right now, I have a group of late teens, early twenties... I am preparing them for college,  by training them in Christian apologetics. This will help them defend their faith against the worldliness of college. My ex-wife... without her I may not have gotten to know the Lord and not be doing what I am doing now.  I had a wonderful class a few years ago and was able to teach science from a Christian perspective. One of the students, Sarah died last week. I believe she is in Heaven. This is rough when you see this happen to a 16 year old. But I hope I was able to make some difference in her and her families life.
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See the third explanation in http://users.aol.com/fcas/pi.html as to why the apparent Biblical approximation of pi is closer than what is first believed.
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in the bible it is said that 7 is God's favorite number. so maybe it's that God is with you always.
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Up to 1000 AD, π was known to less than 10 decimal digits only:\n\nAs early as the 19th century BC, Babylonian mathematicians were using π=25/8, which is within 0.5% of the exact value.\n\nAn Egyptian scribe named Ahmes wrote the oldest known text to give an approximate value for π. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus dates from the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period—though Ahmes stated that he copied a Middle Kingdom papyrus (i.e. from before 1650 BC) —and describes the value in such a way that the result obtained comes out to 256 divided by 81 or 3.160.\n\nThe Indian astronomer Yajnavalkya gave astronomical calculations in the Shatapatha Brahmana (c. 9th century BC) that led to an approximation of π = 339/108 = 3.1389, which is correct to 2 decimal places when rounded.\n\nThe Chinese mathematician Liu Hui in AD 263 computed π to 3.141014, which is correct to 3 decimal places, though he suggested that 3.14 was a good enough approximation.\n\n\nGet more form the links below
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Since pi is an irrational, transcendental number, it cannot be "defined" by an integer division.\n\nIts definition is "the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter", conventionally denoted by the (lowercase Greek letter) π.\n\nIt's approximation is 3.14159265, and it is this "approximation" that is commonly represented as 22/7. But this is not the pi (π) itself.
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Do you mean math concept?\nMarch 14 was Pi day.\nMarch 14 is 3/14.\nPi is approximately 3.14
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I think it is a little more detailed than what you are presenting. Not all numbers have meanings, but certain ones do. It is not as clear cut as you describe here. For example "1" is not the number of God, it is basically unity, and so God fits in because He is a unity. But most numbers have both a positive side and a negative side. So "1" could represent unity which is good and positive, but it could also represent independence which is rebellion and therefore evil. It is a real study in itself, and extrememly interesting, and often the best way to get insight into difficult passages for interpretation. I've personally never heard of "2" as heaven/hell, and 3 is not the trinity. 3 is completeness. When you see a three you can see something is completed. Christ 3 days and nights in grave, 3 is the complete God, Isreal went three days into the wilderness (comlete separation) etc.  7 is really the number of God more than complete. 7 spirits of God before the Throne etc. 10 is a completeness in order - Ten commandments were complete, but also foundation for something more. 40 is testing as you mention. I could go on, but I'll give you acouple of sites you can look up. Have fun with it.\n\nhttp://www.vic.australis.com.au/hazz/Numbers.html\nhttp://www.wordworx.co.nz/bay6.html\nHope this is a help.
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no. nothing is  important to god.\ngod  is  important to everything.
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I don't know this equation, but pi is the greek letter P. it can be used for any variable, but since it is widely accepted as the constant 3.1415 (= a circles circumference divided by its diameter) this would be a dumb decision.\n\nFor example when you need to sum many values, you use the Sigma, but for multiplying many values you use the big PI.\n\ngrtz,\nGB
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Go count up the number of humans the "God" of the Bible caused the death of then count up the number "Satan" killed. Methinks they got the labels mixed up ; )
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Jan 17 Note: If this is hard to understand, after sleeping on it, I may have an easier construction.\nIf you need further explanation, add another note to your question.\n\n-----------\n\nI think I have a solution.\nI'm making the assumptions that the Babylonians didn't have an acurate value for pi and used the value three. If I do that, every thing falls out.\n\nDraw a cirlce. Mark off 2 arcs. Make one the top portion of a circle say from 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock, the other the matching arc from 4 o'clock to 8 o'clock. Note: These arcs are just to get a representation of the problem and are not an acurate length.\n\nNext draw the two chords for the arcs, that is, the straight line from 10 to 2 and the other from 8 to 4.\nNow draw in the diameter of the circle from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock.\nThe two chords cut off pieces on the ends of the diameter. Label these as length 2 (2 is the perpendicular) "Double 2 and get 4" That's the length of the two end pieces of the diameter.\n"Take 4 from 20 and get 16" This is where using 3 as a value for pi comes in. If pi 3, then a circle of circumference 60 will have a diameter of 20, so let the length of the diameter be 20. Taking 4 from 20 gives you the length of the diameter that is between the 2 chords, 16.\n\n"Square 20 get 400, square 16 get 256, take 256 from 400 get 144. Find the square root of 144. 12, the square root, is the chord."\n\nWe're obviously doing some Pythagorean theorem here so where is the triangle? \nDraw the diameter of the circle from 8 o'clock to 2 o'clock, that's the hypoteneuse as has length 20.\nThe distance between the two cords is 16. That's also the distance from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock. Draw that line and label it 16. (Remember the drawing isn't accurate just enough to show us how things are layed out).\nThat leave the 3rd side of the triangle as the chord between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. \n\n20^2 - 16^2 = 12^2  so 12 is the length of the chord.\n\nHow does that sound?\n\nIn modern English, the statement of the problem would be something like this:\n\nLet AB be an arc of a circle of circumference 60. Let X be the chord connecting A and B.\nLet Y be the perpendicular bisector of the chord. If the distance from X to the circle along Y is 2, find the length of X. (You may assume that pi = 3 for the purposes of solving this problem.)
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The value of Pi has been known for thousands of years, as early as the 19th century BC with Babylonian mathematicians, who were only 0.5% off the true value of pie. Over the centuries, the number became perfected and more accurate my mathematicians of all regions, from China, to Egypt, to India. The German mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen computed the first 32 decimal places of pi. In 1947, William Shanks calculated pi to 808 decimal places, only with the help of a mechanical desk calculator.\n\nHope this helps!