Did you know the Bible is encrypted with the same techniques we use in modern computer science?
First, let’s recap this chapter so you know what kind of crazy you’re getting into:
In Why We Are Here, we learned why religions are surprisingly good tools for aligning artificial intelligence.
In Earth School, we learned about life outside our reality from people who died and came back to tell us about it.
In Putting Darwin on Trial, we learned why the Jewish origin story is a better explanation for the world we see, than Darwinian Evolution. The Bible is confirmed by scientific evidence in the:
DNA record
fossil record
archaeological record
geological record, and
astronomical record.
In The Cryptographic Bible Key, we learned about a secret math formula in the Bible that is impossible compared to random chance. It proves some kind of supernatural intelligence is influencing our world.
Prehistoric Technology
When we look back on the greatest scientific discoveries in history, it’s easy to see our universe was always more technologically advanced than anyone imagined.
Think about it.
Scientists don’t invent new technologies, they dis-cover them:
Newton didn’t invent gravity, he uncovered gravity.
Volta, Faraday, and Maxwell didn’t invent electricity, they uncovered electricity.
Einstein didn’t invent mass-energy equivalence, he uncovered mass-energy equivalence.
Bohr didn’t invent the atom, he uncovered the atom.
Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac didn’t invent quantum mechanics, they uncovered quantum mechanics.
Bostrom, Virk, and Vopson didn’t invent the quantum video game we live in, they uncovered the quantum video game we live in.
Goodfellow didn’t invent neural network generators, he uncovered neural network generators.
Atomic energy, neural networks, and quantum computing have been buried in nature this whole time.
See what I mean about the universe being way more technologically advanced than anyone ever imagined?
We live in a quantum video game.
Our minds are neural networks.
Our bodies are programmed in DNA.
So it’s safe to say the Creator of the universe has technology way more sophisticated than ours.
Considering all the technology that God buried in nature, is it possible the Bible is another advanced technology that we barely understand?
The reason I ask is because I didn’t invent the Cryptographic Bible Key, I uncovered that key. It has been buried in the Bible since the Torah was given to Moses on Mount Sinai in 1312 BCE.
So is the Bible from the past, or is the Bible from the future?
That may sound crazy, or mystical, or magical, but that’s not any different than all our other scientific discoveries. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So what if the supernatural events in the Bible aren’t magical at all. What if they’re real?
We will explore this question over and over again in the next chapter, Quantum Christianity. It has sixteen stories that examine the supernatural events in the Bible knowing God has AI and quantum computing technology.
We will dive headfirst into all the craziest topics in the Bible:
addictions, and
You don’t want to miss it. But before we get there, I want to explain the tools and techniques I used to decipher the Bible. I hope they help you on your own quest to understand our world.
Obfuscation 101
If you feel like the Bible is difficult to understand, you are not alone.
The Bible is riddled with riddles. It’s not in chronological order. Some books are books, some books are songs, and some books are plays. Dreams and visions are just as important to the narrative as reality. It’s confusing, but none of that is by accident. The Bible is difficult to understand on purpose.
The Bible has been obfuscated, which means to render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible. Software developers use encryption and obfuscation techniques whenever they have to transmit sensitive information in the presence of enemy attackers.
@ChatGPT: what is a code obfuscator ?
ChatGPT: A code obfuscator is a tool or technique used to make software code more difficult to understand or reverse engineer. It modifies the source code by applying various transformations and techniques that alter the structure, logic, and naming conventions without changing its functionality. The purpose of code obfuscation is to make the code harder to analyze, understand, or modify, thereby increasing the level of protection against unauthorized access, reverse engineering, or intellectual property theft. It is commonly used in areas such as software licensing, security, and protection of proprietary algorithms.
One hallmark of obfuscated source code is the use of multiple variable names that mean the same thing. It makes the logic much more difficult to follow. The Bible uses more than 50 names for Jesus of Nazareth. He is:
Man of Sorrow
Wisdom of God
The Alpha
The Omega
Wonderful Counselor
Mighty God
Immanuel
Prince of Peace
Passover Lamb
Savior
Son of Man
Melchizedek
The Word
Spiritual Rock
Morning Star
Messiah
Lion of Judah
King of the Jews
I am
Horn of Salvation
Bread of Life
and many more
Is Jesus bread? or a star? or a lion? or a lamb? or a king? or a servant? or a light? or a sound? or a word? or a rock? or an idea? It’s confusing.
The Bible uses multiple names for lots of people and places. Abram was 99 years old when his name was changed to Abraham. Sarai became Sarah. Jacob became Israel. Saul became Paul. If you are a Jesus follower, then even you will receive a new name one day.
Revelation 2: 17 Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.
@bitcoiners: Doesn’t that sound like a password? Information is the scarcest resource, even in heaven.
Another reason to believe the Bible has been obfuscated is the narratives are broken up and spread across multiple books. For example, let's say you want to learn about King David. Most of his story is provided in 1 and 2 Samuel. But if you keep reading, David’s genealogy is in Ruth. If you keep reading, David’s hopes and dreams are in Psalms. You will learn something new about King David in:
Ruth
1 and 2 Samuel
1 and 2 Kings
1 and 2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Hosea
Amos
Zechariah
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
Romans
2 Timothy
Hebrews, and
Revelation
Software obfuscators scramble the code like this to make the logic more difficult to follow. That’s why the Bible isn’t in chronological order. Genesis 1 isn’t the beginning of time. Ezekiel 28 recounts the fall of Satan, which happened before Genesis 1. Proverbs 8 describes the creation of Wisdom in the time before time, which happened before Ezekiel 28. Don’t worry, we will unscramble all of this in the next chapter.
Perhaps the biggest reason to believe the Bible is intentionally obfuscated is because Jesus said the secrets of heaven have been intentionally obfuscated.
Matthew 13: 10 Then the disciples came up and asked Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered them, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them. 12 For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand. 14 Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:
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16 But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear! 17 For I assure you: Many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see yet didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear yet didn’t hear them.
See? The Bible has been obfuscated to make it more difficult to understand.
In the next chapter, I will reveal as many secrets as I know because I want to help you understand. I care about you. I want to know you a billion, trillion years from now. 💕
Open Source Protection
The Bible is obfuscated because its logic is “open source”. That makes it vulnerable to attack by evil forces.
There’s a great example of this in Matthew 4, when Jesus faces off against Satan for total control of our planet. This supernatural battle between good and evil could have been like an Avengers movie—with lasers, explosions, and armies of alien soldiers from another dimension.
But instead, the first shot in the battle was, “turn these stones into bread”?
Matthew 4: 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. 2 After He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He was hungry. 3 Then the tempter approached Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
5 Then the Devil took Him to the holy city, had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: He will give His angels orders concerning you, and they will support you with their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.”
7 Jesus told him, “It is also written: Do not test the Lord your God.”
8 Again, the Devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 And he said to Him, “I will give You all these things if You will fall down and worship me.”
10 Then Jesus told him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him.”
11 Then the Devil left Him, and immediately angels came and began to serve Him.
See how Jesus and Satan battle each other with verses from the Bible?
Candidly, this fight is pretty nerdy. It sounds like two lawyers in a contract dispute. I don’t know how many other planets in the universe are controlled by Satan, but all the kingdoms of this world were Satan’s property to trade. 😬
The most shocking part of this story is when Satan quotes Psalm 91. How scary is that? See, Satan doesn’t need faith to believe in God because he has already seen God face-to-face. Satan just doesn’t want to bow down to God. Satan doesn’t want you to bow down either, which is why Satan knows the Bible better than you.
The Greek word Satanas means “adversary”. Satan is the opposite of Jesus because he only understands selfishness. That’s why he wanted Jesus to turn those stones into bread. That would have been the only time in the Bible when Jesus used his supernatural powers to serve himself.
That’s why the biggest temptation in the battle was the final one. Jesus knew he was going to acquire all the kingdoms of this world, but he also knew he would have to be crucified to receive them. So Satan makes an amazing offer. If Jesus will simply bow down, he can have all the kingdoms of this world for free.
See, when your enemy can read your playbook, it’s really important to encrypt the most sensitive information. Do you think Satan would have fought so hard to kill Jesus if he knew Jesus was coming back to life?
Tools for Decryption
Deciphering the Bible is something that each person should experience for themselves. God tells Joshua exactly how to do it.
Joshua 1: 7 Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go. 8 This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to recite it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. 9 Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
So the recommended way to decipher the Bible is to carefully observe it day and night. When I first began my Bible research, I didn’t have the best tools to do this. But in 2015, I met a man who completely changed my Bible reading game.
I walking the trail in Austin with large, over-the-ear headphones so I could listen to a computer science book. As I crossed the Congress bridge, something told me to go back and take a rest by the lake. So I walked back and sat down on a bench next to some older black guy. I noticed he had a small stack of books that included a bright purple Bible. We just nodded hello and kept reading our books.
Eventually, I said to him, “Hey, I noticed your Bible. I listen to it every morning”.
“Oh that’s great”, he said. “I listen to it all night long.”
Surprised, I asked, “All night? What kind of headphones do you use?”
“Oh, just cheap ones from Walmart.”, he said. But then his answer slowly turned into a story. This guy proceeded to tell me his entire testimony about how he stabbed a guy, went to jail, and found God in solitary confinement. He said listening to the Bible all night long had totally transformed his life.
As he talked, I felt the strangest feeling come over me—like I needed to jump in the lake. I finally interrupted him and said, “Hey man, I think you must be here to baptize me or something because I really feel like I need to get into that water.”
He smiled and said, “That’s not what I do. You’ve already been baptized. I baptize in the Holy Spirit. I’m not even supposed to be in Austin. I work for a fiber optic company out of Atlanta and we’re doing a job nearby. The Spirit told me to drive to Austin, sit on this bench, and wait for someone”.
I was completely incredulous. So I asked, “How do you know you’re waiting for me?”
“Your headphones.” he said. “They always send me to people who are into technology and communications.”
Well I was definitely the right guy, so I asked him to do whatever he came to do and it changed my life. That was December 7, 2015. It just happened to be the 40th day of my first alcohol fast, which is still going nine years later.
I immediately asked Brother Mike to become my personal Bible coach. For the next six months, we spent several hours reading the Bible together over the phone each week. He’s the first person who taught me to look for hidden meaning in the numbers, the birds, and the trees.
I followed Brother Mike’s example and got sleep headphones. I have tested several models over the years, but I still use cheap bluetooth headphones from Amazon. I bought a second pair so that one is always charged. Tap the image below to get your own (I don’t make any money on these links).
I have tested several audio-bibles over the years and currently use Dwell.
The reason I like Dwell is because it allows me to create my own playlist. I prefer the Bible in the original order, before the books were reshuffled by the catholic Saint Jerome in 382 AD. Here’s a short blog post about the original order if you’re interested.
The order you choose doesn't matter, just listen to all of it. Psalm 1 says a person who listens to the Bible day and night is like a tree planted next to streams of water (just like a cypress tree).
Today, I prefer to listen to the Bible at night because I have more total attention when my eyes are closed. Some nights I listen fully intrigued, and some nights the stories put me straight to sleep.
You may think there’s no benefit to listening to the Bible while you're sleeping, but after cycling through the Bible more than a hundred times, I disagree. Our language processors don’t stop working when we sleep. If I start my playlist around Timothy or Titus, I wake up sweating through my pajamas in Revelation.
Learning the Bible is just like learning a foreign language. The longer you listen, the faster your “System 1” neural network will put all the pieces together for you. If I could influence you to make just one change to your life from reading this book, it would be to buy $20 sleep headphones and listen to the Bible at night.
If I could influence you to make just two changes to your life from reading this book, it would be to listen to the Bible at night, and watch Andy Stanley on YouTube once a week. I don’t know him, and he doesn’t pay me to say that, he’s just the best explainer of the Bible that I’ve found on the Internet.
Reading Between the Lines
The other tool that really improved my Bible reading game is the Interlinear Bible. Interlinear Bibles provide English words next to the original words written by Moses, David, Solomon, Matthew, Luke, John, James, Peter, and Paul. How cool is that?
You need to have access to the original words because a lot gets lost in translation. The problem with English is there are too many words. The Old Testament uses 8,674 Hebrew words. The New Testament uses 5,624 Greek words. But English has over 400,000 words. English words are so much more precise, so it forces the translation to be much more limited to the translator's own scientific understanding of the universe.
Let’s use John 1:1 as an example.
Here is a google search for “John 1:1 interlinear”. Anytime you search for a verse in the Bible, just add the word “interlinear”. I like the Interlinear Bible at biblehub.com the best. The result you’re looking for should look like this:
Now look for Word, as in, “In the beginning was the Word”. The interlinear stack should look like this:
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In the middle of the stack is the original word inscribed by John 2,000 years ago, Λόγος.
Above it is the transliteration, Logos. That’s how the word would sound to an English speaker today.
Below the original symbol is the most common English translation, Word.
On the bottom are the parts of speech. Here “N” means it’s a noun and the rest of the letters are qualifiers (nominative, masculine, singular).
The number at the top, 3056, is the most important datapoint for your research. That’s the Strong’s Concordance number.
Now tap on the link for 3056. It should look like this:
Every word in the Bible has a Strong’s Concordance number. If you tap on that number, you will get:
the definition
phonetic spelling
etymology
“word cloud” of English words from the New American Standard translation
commentaries, and
every place that word occurs in the Bible.
In this example, you’ll see the word Logos isn’t always translated into English as Word. Here are all the other ways Logos is translated in the North American Standard Bible (with their counts):
account (7), account* (1), accounting (2), accounts (2), answer (1), appearance (1), complaint (1), exhortation* (1), have to do (1), instruction (1), length* (1), matter (4), matters (1), message (10), news (3), preaching (1), question (2), reason (2), reasonable (1), remark (1), report (1), said (1), say (1), saying (4), sayings (1), speaker (1), speech (10), statement (18), story (1), talk (1), teaching (2), thing (2), things (1), utterance (2), what he says (1), what* (1), word (179), words (61).
See what I mean about English having too many words?
John 1:1 could be translated:
In the beginning was the Accounting
In the beginning was the Instruction
In the beginning was the Message
In the beginning was the Reason
In the beginning was the Speech
In the beginning was the Statement
In the beginning was the Word
The guy who decided Logos means Word lived in 1611. That’s when King James commissioned the first English Bible. Unfortunately, almost all English translations are derived from the King James Version. I’m not a big fan of medieval world views, which is why I always use the Interlinear Bible for my research.
It took me years to read the Bible this way. If you don’t have that kind of time to invest, don’t worry, I will tell you everything I learned for free in the next chapter. For the record, Logos is also where we get the more modern English word Logic. So I translate John 1:1 as:
In the beginning was the Logic 😉
There are plenty of times when the Interlinear Bible isn’t practical. So a few years ago, I performed a science experiment to decide which English translation was best for me. English translations are all very similar, but today I prefer the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). Here’s a blogpost from another Bible nerd who explains my reasons better than me.
I didn’t expect to be a “young simulation creationist” when I started my journey to understand why we are here. But I’m a computer science nerd who really likes puzzles, and the Bible is the most interesting logic puzzle I have ever seen. So if you are ready to hear the Bible like you’ve never heard it before, let’s start in the beginning before the beginning, in Proverbs 8.
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